Whenever there is more money on the line, people tend to play better. If you don't believe me just open up PokerStars (or whatever site) and load up a bunch of random low stakes games.Īt the very lowest stakes there is still almost always at least one really bad player who is clearly a long term losing poker player (a fish).īy the way, if you don't know how to spot the fish stop reading right now and go read this quick article I wrote on how to spot the fish.Īs you move up the stakes it might be every other table or every third table where you find a really bad poker player.