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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 685820, member: 26306"] The goal of poker is to make the best 5 card hand. If one of these 5 cards is a kicker, the kicker comes into play. This was explained by a few others. Counterfitting is when usually you have 3 pair. Now as mentioned above, you take the best 5-card hand, and 3 pair would be 6 cards. There is no 3-pair poker hand. Here's an example. 33 vs. AK board comes 55779 The best 5-card hand that can be made by the player with 33 is the board: 2 pairs, 5s and 7s, with a 9 kicker. The best 5-card hand that can be made by the player with AK is: 2 pairs, 5s and 7s, with an A kicker. By virtue of the A being a higher kicker, the AK hand would win. One more example: KJ vs. J5 flop comes, AJ5 J5 is now ahead with 2 pair vs. KJ's 1 pair. turn comes: A Now they both have 2 pairs, Aces and Jacks. The 5s held by the hand with J5 were "counterfitted" because the third pair doesn't matter in poker, you only get to use the best 5 cards. [/QUOTE]