Poker Glossary
Cooler
A collision of two very strong hands where the chips were going in no matter what — set over set, flush over flush, kings into aces. By definition neither player made a mistake; the matchup, not the play, decided the money. Recognizing a cooler matters for the mental game: it belongs in the variance column, not the leak column.
At the table
You flop middle set with 8♠8♦ on Q♣8♥2♦; your opponent flopped top set with Q♠Q♥. All the money goes in, and it never could have gone differently.
House note
Take it to the felt →← Full glossary — all 52 termsCoolers are the deck’s way of reminding you the script was sometimes written before you sat down.
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