yeah my bad, i always mess that up, you know what i meantit depends on the game your playing and your position at the table. In general dead homie advice is good. limp in and try to flop a set. He called them trips but that is not the same as a set. A set is when you have three of a kind and its hidden because you hold two of the three in your hole cards. Trips is when one of your whole cards matches two board cards exp.. 56 on a 55J flop is trips and 88 on a 38K flop is a set. gl
Pocket jacks isn't the right cutoff, pocket nines and tends are considered a premium hand. The question you proposed might be better if the cut off was nine's. Also we would need to know what kind of poker you were playing, multi table tournaments, single table tournaments, cash.