Sets for cash.

I was talking to a guy at a table on pokerstars the other day. He told me he used to make as much as $1000 a month just waiting for his pairs to flop trips. Could this really be that profitable for someone just starting out to build a bankroll? What if there is a big raise, do you still play the smaller pairs? Is this more of a see a cheap flop strategy? I haven't tried this yet, it seems like something is missing. Can it be that easy really? Just sit back, hit your sets, rake in the cash!

Would this work at all in a casino?

Let me know what ya think.

Also how long does a person sit in one room online before moving on?

Sets are certainly my biggest earners, partly because they are great hands that are so well hidden. I try always to call any reasonable raise with my pockets - only if the opponent has a good sized stack though. However, I do not solely concentrate on sets, it is just part of an overall strategy. Pocket pairs only flop a set one in 8 times, so you would be limiting yourself if you only played a 'get-a-set' strategy. I generally aim for a 'set or above' before I am willing to put a lot of my chips in - the small hand small pot, big hand big pot rule. Playing multiple tables also helps, you see many more of these big hands per hour.

JCW78 said:

I was talking to a guy at a table on PokerStars the other day. He told me he used to make as much as $1000 a month just waiting for his pairs to flop trips.

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You get a pocket pair once every 17 hands.
Even when you get a pocket pair, you only flop a set 1/8.5 times.

So you have to go through a lot of hands to get a set. That's paying a lot of blinds. Yes, sets sometimes pay a lot, but not that much.

Here's a good previous thread on set mining: https://www.cardschat.com/forum/general-poker-13/pocket-pair-97873/