A set vs trips, why do people care? (1 Viewer)

[p5woody]

A set vs trips, why do people care so much?

I understand the difference between a set and trips - A set is pocket pair hitting one card and trips is having one card and hitting 2 on the board.

I play in a couple of leagues where people make a big deal when somebody says trips or set incorrectly and then proceed to explain to everybody the difference. These are local low stakes leagues with a wide range of players and abilities. I am assuming everybody understands, when a player says I have trips or a set everybody knows they have three of a kind. So does it really matter? What am I missing?

 

[Burke]

you aren't missing anything

 

[Nex]

I guess in people's minds a set is of higher "quality" than trips. Random hand card hitting 2 more identical cards on the board is probably considered to be more lucky than a guy with a PP hitting one on the board. Plus, there can be no duplicated hand if you have a set but there can be another guy with the same if you only have trips.

Three of a kind is three of a kind after all, but correct terminology separates the newbie from the experienced guy.

 

[rowlin]

A set can be the nuts but trips cannot. Otherwise it mostly seems like a matter of semantics.

 

[Coyote]

That's why having quads is so much better. It relieves you, among other things, from this semantics problem.

 

[Coyote]

...that is till poker slang fanatics come up with a special name for having quads with 3 of them on the board

 

[PlaidDragon]

Tomato, tomato.... <-- see the implied change in inflection?

I have no preference. If someone says "set" incorrectly it's still 3 of a kind and still beats my top two pair, every time.

 

[BGinGA]

Better than claiming, "I have two pair...oh, plus another pair".....

.....for quads.

 

[rowlin]

In the absence of any information about the board, specifying trips or set gives some additional information about the specifics of the hand. In the context of a showdown, that information is already given or known. I suppose saying ‘three of a kind’ is most general and correct, but who has the breath to say all that?

 

[PlaidDragon]

Better than claiming, "I have two pair...oh, plus another pair".....

.....for quads.

 

[derekdd23]

They are not the same, why not start calling a full house a straight? Or start calling someone by a different name?

I just ignore people since it is about as common as saying "For all intensive purposes". Both are absolutely wrong but we all get the point.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Because there is a big difference between a set and trips. If a player has a set, nobody else can have that set, but if a player has trips someone else can have the same trips with a better kicker.

Trips is not nearly as strong of a hand as a set.

 

[Gunnar]

I lost to a set is better than loosing to trips. It is a lot easier to see the trips

 

[liftapint]

"For all intensive purposes". .

Call 'em trips, call 'em set, I don't care. But if you start talking like ^^^ that, oh boy.

 

[rowlin]

I once turned in a math proof in which I listed three things, “respectfully.” The professor was really nice about it and corrected it to “respectively.”

 

[SixSpeedFury]

...that is till poker slang fanatics come up with a special name for having quads with 3 of them on the board

Trademarking it now. Fourps.

 

[upNdown]

You can call it semantics if you want, but it’s definitely a different thing and I think it’s annoying when people use the two terms interchangeably. I don’t usually correct them, because I’m not the kind of guy who goes are correcting people. But usually somebody will correct them - more often than not, I’d say.