Pocket Pair to Set: The 1 in 8.5 Flop
A pocket pair flops a set or better 11.76% of the time, or 1 in 8.5. That figure comes from counting flops, not from counting individual cards, and the hand rankings chart is where the resulting hand sits in the order. The two cards that matter After a pocket pair is dealt, 50 cards remain unseen. Two of them match the rank in hand. Those two are the only cards that can produce a set on the flop, so the entire question is whether at least one of them appears among the three flop cards. ...