I’ve recently started playing poker online (free play only) to just past the time and I’ve noticed that a lot of people seem to use the “all-in” mentality to increase their stack size. This play consists of just chucking all their chips in as soon as they arrive at the table with no regard to the hand they’ve got (a symptom I assume of the fact that its free play and there is no consequence for losing).

They will repeat this every time they lose, which normally happens 3-4 times in a row. At that point they either give up or get lucky and win a hand. I’m curious though, as to whether they believe that this is truly good play. I mean, they only ever seem to get back about twice their all in at most, so on average they are actually down on the amount of chips.

Still, I seem to win quite convincingly against these types if they hang around long enough, so I guess I shouldn’t complain too much!