What is a "cooler"?

[wrkingtobegreat]

What is a "cooler"? I've seen it mentioned in the SSNL Forum.

[NickyC]

When you have a big hand, figure you can't be beat, then...bam. You're beat.

*example*, you flop a king high spade flush, board doesn't pair, no more spades, etc. Only one hand can beat you, you think you have it made. Bam, somebody has ace high flush and was just milking you. COOOOOLER.

[ocdscale]

Suppose you flop a set and someone flops a higher set, that's a cooler.
Or you flop a boat, but they flopped quads.

Or you're drawing to the river and hit the nut flush, and someone has the straight flush.

Situations where most of your money is going in behind, but there's no way you get away from it (the odds of him having the better hand is so low).

Differentiated from bad beat. In a beat, your money is going in ahead, and they hit one of their few outs to win. In a cooler, you're behind, but there's no (rational) reason to think you're behind.

[AngusThermopyle]

As with many poker terms over the decade, the term has been misused so often that the meaning has changed.

Originally it meant a cold deck. Not today's "cold deck" that doesn't give you any good cards, but a stacked deck meant to cheat you. So you would be given a very good hand (second nuts), but be beaten. Ace flush vs straight flush. Top full house vs quads.

So when newer players got beat holding an excellent hand, they borrowed the term 'cooler'.

[oober]

COOLER!!!!!!

PokerStars Game #10190006764: Tournament #51634392, $0.01+$0.00 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (5/10) - 2007/05/30 - 20:26:28 (ET)
Table '51634392 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: sxysuzy (1200 in chips)
Seat 2: pterodactyl6 (2800 in chips)
pterodactyl6: posts small blind 5
sxysuzy: posts big blind 10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pterodactyl6 [T 8]
pterodactyl6: raises 25 to 35
sxysuzy: calls 25
*** FLOP *** [T 8 2]
sxysuzy: checks
pterodactyl6: checks
*** TURN *** [T 8 2] [8]
sxysuzy: bets 45
pterodactyl6: raises 75 to 120
sxysuzy: calls 75
*** RIVER *** [T 8 2] [8] [2]
sxysuzy: bets 200
pterodactyl6: raises 900 to 1100
sxysuzy: calls 845 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pterodactyl6: shows [T 8] (a full house, Eights full of Tens)
sxysuzy: shows [A 8] (a full house, Eights full of Deuces)
pterodactyl6 collected 2400 from pot
sxysuzy said, "ouch"
pterodactyl6 said, "gg, big cooler"
sxysuzy said, "yep what ya gonna do gg"
pterodactyl6 said, "you too"
sxysuzy said, "you gonna post that hand?"
pterodactyl6 said, "when are you around tomorrow?"
pterodactyl6 said, "yeah, i will"
sxysuzy said, "same time"
sxysuzy said, "gl"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2400 | Rake 0
Board [Ts 8c 2d 8s 2c]
Seat 1: sxysuzy (big blind) showed [As 8d] and lost with a full house, Eights full of Deuces
Seat 2: pterodactyl6 (button) (small blind) showed [Tc 8h] and won (2400) with a full house, Eights full of Tens

[ACChan]

what about straight-flush(lower)
against straight-flush(higher)
BEAD BEAT? or COOLER?
or both?

EDIT:something like
HOLECARDS A: 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
HOLECARDS B: 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
BOARD:A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

would look like a james bond movie! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ocdscale]

From perspective of A, if he was betting all along:
Huge beat, the guy was drawing to 1 out on the River.
If he waited until the River to start betting, it's just bad play. Maybe a cooler (but he has only himself to blame).

[mikever]

Oober, that's not really a cooler. A cooler would be if sxysuzy had 22

[wrkingtobegreat]

Appreciate all the responses

[djdamajo]

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Oober, that's not really a cooler. A cooler would be if sxysuzy had 22

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that would be a cooler to sxysuzy right? she couldnt really put him on 10 8... she easily would have thought she had the best hand and i would also in the same predicament.