WSOP PLO Event - The Term "Cooler"

[ToledoTommy]

I'd never heard the term "cooler" before but RW and PH used it, PH over and over again after he got knocked out by RW, and the announcers made it sound like it refers to the nuts when someone else has the second nut. Is this an accurate understanding?

[Joboo]

My understanding of the term is that it's a situation where you can't do anything but get all your money in drawing dead or close to it. That can be nuts vs. 2nd nuts, or anything else where you can't do anything but lose lots of chips.

[Aceshigh7]

Not specifically second nuts and nuts. But you have a pretty good idea. The term is used when you have an exceptionally strong hand and you find yourself up against an unlikely even stronger hand.

Edit: Joboo explained it better than I.

[tylerdurden]

A "cooler" is a stacked deck. It's commonly used to refer to a blackjack cheating technique in which a shoe with the cards pre-ordered to benefit the players is switched in for a huge hit-and-run.

[Bartman387]

Cooler refers to a person hired by the casino to play at hot tables and, as the superstition went, he was so unlucky that the table would instantly start losing.

There was a decent movie made a few years back called The Cooler, starring William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin.

[Army Eye]

"cooler" seems to be the same thing as getting "cold decked".

I had never heard "cooler" either and now it seems a lot of the players say it.

[UATrewqaz]

A cooler original meant a deck that was prearranged and then introduced into play, usually designed to bust a player of all his money.

Example:

I fix the deck such that player A will get dealt AA and player B will get 55, flop will be A5x and the river will produce the case 5, giving player B quads.

Player A is going to lose most if not all of his money on this hand (if its NL cash)

The reason its known as a cooler is because the deck being brought in is "cold", no shuffling has occured to it.


Nowadays when players on TV say "Oh what a cooler" they mean the hand played out so badly for them (luck wise) its as bad as if the above pre-arranged scenario had occured.

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A cooler original meant a deck that was prearranged and then introduced into play, usually designed to bust a player of all his money.

Example:

I fix the deck such that player A will get dealt AA and player B will get 55, flop will be A5x and the river will produce the case 5, giving player B quads.

Player A is going to lose most if not all of his money on this hand (if its NL cash)

The reason its known as a cooler is because the deck being brought in is "cold", no shuffling has occured to it.


Nowadays when players on TV say "Oh what a cooler" they mean the hand played out so badly for them (luck wise) its as bad as if the above pre-arranged scenario had occured.

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That is the best Explanation! I have heard them say I got cold decked also, that explains it.

[chucksim]

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"cooler" seems to be the same thing as getting "cold decked".

I had never heard "cooler" either and now it seems a lot of the players say it.

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Yeah...a "cold deck" would be one pre-set and brought in for the purposes already stated. They would physically be "cold" because no one was holding them before the hand in question.

Mike Matusow used to at the Main Event final table to describe his KK vs AA. Definitely a case where you can't get away from your huge hand and it's beaten.

[ToledoTommy]

Thanks for all the responses. I have heard the expression "cold deck" lots of times and I am familiar with the "cooler" of William H. Macy fame. It basically means what I thought it meant.

[greatwhite]

I use it as nuts vs 2nd nuts also.