Change your Play

I was having an interesting conversation with another online poker player yesterday. He believed that with computer technology, sites learned which hands each player will play and therefore can generate action hands, knowing x players will play. He made a couple of statements claiming it was common when nearing the bubble to see the short stack get AA or such like only to be called by the large stack with a 3 8 or such like and the 3 8 would win. His belief was tight players got punished and lose players rewarded, because the site knew exactly what hole cards to give players, knowing they would play.

My answer to this taking his first claim, when nearing the bubble and your the short stack you are going to get called by the big stack no matter what his cards and he is going to win sometimes. But I have had an occasion where I only had 2500 chips, the large stack had 90000, I doubled up from, plus took the antes and went on to win the tournament, In any all in before the flop you are gambling irrespective of your hand going in, yes you have the best chance when getting your chips in, but it dos not mean you will win.

To his second claim, online poker sites know which hands you will play, guess what if there are good player at your table they will too. If you only ever raise with big hands, they know that and will call with inferior hands , because they know 50% of the time you will miss.

In conclusion whether you believe online poker sites are fixed or you just want to improve your play, then vary the way you play. If you only ever bet the big hands you will get called a lot by inferior hands and they will win sometimes. Vary your playing style keep the computer guessing and the other players.