Velvet RiverPocket Pair
Hole cards of the same rank, such as two Jacks.
You are dealt a pocket pair about once every 17 hands. Small pairs are mostly played to hit a set, which happens about 12% of the time on the flop. Compare every pair in the starting hands chart.
Example
99 is "pocket nines", nicknamed "Wayne Gretzky" after the hockey legend's jersey number.