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The Trips bet in Ultimate Texas Hold'em
Trips is an optional bet in Ultimate Texas Hold'em that pays when your best five of seven cards make three of a kind or better. It pays from 3 to 1 up to 50 to 1, no matter what the dealer has, and it is still paid if you fold.
How Trips works
- Before the deal, put chips on the Trips spot along with your Ante and Blind.
- Play the hand as usual.
- At the end, your best five cards from your two and the five on the table are checked against the Trips table.
Trips doesn't care whether you beat the dealer, whether the dealer opens, or whether you made a Play bet.
The payouts
The table played here is 50-40-30-8-6-5-3.
| Your hand | Pays | Ways | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 50 to 1 | 4,324 | 0.003% |
| Straight flush | 40 to 1 | 37,260 | 0.028% |
| Four of a kind | 30 to 1 | 224,848 | 0.17% |
| Full house | 8 to 1 | 3,473,184 | 2.60% |
| Flush | 6 to 1 | 4,047,644 | 3.03% |
| Straight | 5 to 1 | 6,180,020 | 4.62% |
| Three of a kind | 3 to 1 | 6,461,620 | 4.83% |
| Less | Lose | 113,355,660 | 84.73% |
The ways are counted out of all 133,784,560 seven-card hands.
The house edge: 1.90%
Bet 1 on every possible seven-card hand. The winning hands return 110,808,336. The losing hands cost 113,355,660. That is a loss of 2,547,324 over 133,784,560 hands, a house edge of 1.90%. On a 10 Trips bet, it averages 19 cents a hand.
How often it wins
Trips wins 15.3% of the time, about one hand in 6.5. Most wins are three of a kind, straights and flushes. A full house comes about once in 39 hands, four of a kind once in 595. Long runs without a win are normal, and one big hand pays for many of them.
Trips pays even when you fold
Folding gives up your Ante and Blind, not your Trips bet. Under the official rules, a folded hand's cards stay with the Trips bet until the end of the round, and three of a kind or better is paid.
It comes up when the board makes the hand. You hold 4♥5♠ and the board is 6♠3♣K♦K♣K♥. Your best hand is three kings with a 6 and a 5, but almost any card beats that kicker, so the strategy says fold. You lose the Ante and Blind, and Trips pays 3 to 1 on the three kings. With the simple strategy, about one hand in 290 is a fold that still wins Trips.
Does Trips change how you play?
No. Trips is paid on your cards, and the cards are the same whether you bet, check or fold. Play the hand by the usual strategy. Ultimate Texas Hold'em strategy.
Trips and the Blind
A big hand often pays twice. When you beat the dealer with a straight or better, the Blind pays too. A flush that wins pays 3 to 2 on the Blind and 6 to 1 on Trips. If the dealer beats your flush, the Blind loses, but Trips still pays. All the payouts.
Other Trips tables
Casinos choose from several Trips tables. They agree on the top three lines and differ below.
| Hand | This table | Table B | Table C |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Straight flush | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Four of a kind | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Full house | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Flush | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Straight | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Three of a kind | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| House edge | 1.90% | 0.90% | 3.50% |
Should you bet Trips?
Trips costs 1.90% of what you put on it, a little less than the main game costs per Ante. It adds a second way to win on big hands and bigger swings. Leaving it off doesn't change anything else about the game.
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Questions
What is the Trips bet in Ultimate Texas Hold'em?
An optional bet that your best five of seven cards make three of a kind or better. It pays by a fixed table and ignores the dealer's hand.
Does Trips pay if you fold in Ultimate Texas Hold'em?
Yes. Folding loses the Ante and Blind, but Trips is still settled on your hand, so three of a kind or better pays.
What does Trips pay?
On the table here: royal flush 50 to 1, straight flush 40, four of a kind 30, full house 8, flush 6, straight 5, three of a kind 3.
What is the house edge on the Trips bet?
1.90% on the 50-40-30-8-6-5-3 table. Other common tables run from about 0.90% to 3.50%.
Should you play Trips in Ultimate Texas Hold'em?
It is up to you. It costs 1.90% of the bet over time and adds bigger swings. It doesn't change how you play the hand.
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