Hi. Firstly, I agree with your discussion on the use of 'cooler', the same can be said of 'sick'. People use both to imply that they couldn't have played any better, couldn't get away from the hand and just got unlucky etc etc... when most of the time they could have (or should have) played it better.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I agree with your comment about people calling 'plain old trips a set'. I am watching old episodes of High Stakes Poker featuring some great and well known players like Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Eli Elezra, Barry Greenstein etc etc and they frequently refer 'trips' as a 'set', and when a '4-of-a-kind' is seen they call it that or 'quads'.
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Sets Vs Trips
Date: 2009-07-14 12:07 (UTC)Firstly, I agree with your discussion on the use of 'cooler', the same can be said of 'sick'. People use both to imply that they couldn't have played any better, couldn't get away from the hand and just got unlucky etc etc... when most of the time they could have (or should have) played it better.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I agree with your comment about people calling 'plain old trips a set'. I am watching old episodes of High Stakes Poker featuring some great and well known players like Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Eli Elezra, Barry Greenstein etc etc and they frequently refer 'trips' as a 'set', and when a '4-of-a-kind' is seen they call it that or 'quads'.