{"id":2532590,"date":"2024-06-25T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/?page_id=2532590"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:07:52","slug":"trips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Trips Definition \u2013 Learn What Trips Are In Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trips is a poker slang term for a <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-hands\/three-of-a-kind\/\" title=\"\">three-of-a-kind<\/a> hand made from one hole card and two community cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can only make trips with an unpaired <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/best-texas-holdem-starting-hands\/\" title=\"Master The Best Texas Hold\u2019em Starting Hands \u2013 Top 10 List\">starting hand<\/a>. This makes trips different from a <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/set\/\" title=\"Set Definition \u2013 Learn What A Set Is In Poker\">set<\/a>, as the latter is a three-of-a-kind made when you hold a pocket pair and hit the same card on the community cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trips are a bit less valuable than sets since they are not that disguised, and two players can have trips at the same time when only one can have a particular set in any given hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, let&#8217;s say you raise from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/button\/\" title=\"Button Definition \u2013 Learn What A Button Is In Poker\">BTN<\/a> with Q9s, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/flop\/\" title=\"Flop Definition \u2013 Learn What A Flop Is In Poker\">flop<\/a> comes AQQ, bringing you a three-of-a-kind combination known as the trips. If you move all in on the flop, another player can also have trips, and it will depend on the runout and kicker who wins it. In these situations, you can even consider <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/run-it-twice\/\" title=\"Run It Twice Definition \u2013 Learn What Run it Twice Is In Poker\">running it twice<\/a> to reduce the variance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/\">All Poker Terms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/tournament-masterclass\" class=\"adv-link\" aria-label=\"tournament masterclass unlock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock.png\" alt=\"tournament masterclass unlock\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock.png 1176w, https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock-746x143.png 746w, https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock-1024x197.png 1024w, https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock-768x148.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\" width=\"1176\" height=\"226\"   \/><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trips is a poker slang term for a three-of-a-kind hand made from one hole card and two community cards. You can only make trips with an unpaired starting hand. This makes trips different from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"parent":2532079,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"right-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2532590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"author_image":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tadas Peckaitis","author_link":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/author\/tadas-peckaitisgmail-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Trips is a poker slang term for a three-of-a-kind hand made from one hole card and two community cards. 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