Like all types of poker, Texas maintain’em is about making a poker hand which is stronger than your opponents’ arms – or, at least, making them assume you may have a stronger hand. As you would anticipated, a pair is the name for 2 of the same rating card. When your two hole playing cards in Texas hold’em make a pair, you hold a ‘pocket pair’. Any hand with three of the same rating card qualifies as three-of-a-kind. This hand is called ‘journeys’ when a participant has a matching third card to go together with a pair on the board, or a ‘set’ when a participant holds a pocket pair and one other of that same card hits the board.