If you play internet poker for a while, regardless if it’s an online poker tournament or a cash game, you should be very careful about being too predictable. Being a predictable player is a bad strategy, because your adversaries will learn to predict your behavior and will be also able to decipher the meanings of your bets.
Being deciphered by the adversaries will prove to be disastrous, as everyone will fold when you have great hands, so that you’d get almost nothing in the pot, you’d get called when you’re bluffing and if you have mediocre hands, you’d be forced to drop.
For instance, beginners in the game of poker, are often not used to the values of the hands: they’ll act too confident and start raising on really bad hands and will be shy and just call on premium hands. This strategy, which is the opposite of what a normal player will do, sometimes confuses at first even the top players, who might lose a few hands to them, before they realize how their opponents really plays.
An non-predictable Pacific Poker player is a successful player, because your adversaries will not know what to expect from you. This is why you should try to change your style once in a while. After a few hands in which you were raising on weak hands and slow-playing the weaker ones, try the opposite and play a nice tight-aggressive play, with an especially aggressive raising on the best hands.
You can cultivate an image of being an especially tight player, who only plays the great hands and who always bets proportional to the strength of the hand. Then, you can use this image to bluff. It might get you several wins, and, eventually, you’ll get caught a few times.
When you got caught for bluffing, you get another opportunity. Your opponents will know you bluff, so they might not believe you have a good hand next time you raise your bet. This will give you an opportunity to increase the bet a lot when you have a good hand.
Nevertheless, you should know that playing the “wrong way” (bluffing, slow-playing) shouldn’t be your standard play. You can use them just to seed doubt into the minds of your adversaries, but not as your regular play. Just use a nice tight-aggressive play for most of the time and you will win the most in your poker games.