Paired board
A board with two or more cards of the same rank, which makes full houses and quads possible.
Last updated
- What it means
- When the board pairs, any player holding the third card of that rank has trips, and full houses and four of a kind become possible.
- How it is calculated
- Look for a repeated rank among the community cards. Count how many cards of that rank are left: they are the combos that make trips or better.
- Worked example
- On 8♠8♦3♣ only 2 eights are left, so A8 has 8 combos instead of 16, and 33 makes a full house.
- Why it matters
- Paired boards shrink the number of strong hands a range can hold, so bluffs work more often and trips are strong but not the nuts.
See also: Board texture, The nuts, Dry board