The same story at iPoker network and
partypoker.
Yes it's just my observation, and I know what feeling you have there, and I also see it at ACR quite often. Actually I've been exploiting this at iPoker for long time and it still works well. Simply check these 2 situations at ACR/party/ipoker in like 100 deals and compare the results.
1) You're betting 3-4bb pre-flop, short stack goes all-in, and you call. In 70-80% of cases you lose. Hand doesn't really matter.
2) You're sitting behing the short stack, there was no pre-flop raise, but short stack goes all-in, and you call. In 70-80% of cases you win.
and 3rd situation as a bonus.
4 people go all-in infront of you, and you have a dominating stack, CALL WITH ANY TWO CARDS! You have a 70-80% chance to bust them all.
It might sound stupid, cause poker players like to think that random generators are not subjective programs written by humans, but instead they prefer to think that it's something absolutely random and objective. But I've been testing it, I see the results, specially the last one, with 4 all-ins infront of you and you're the dominating stack calling with sick hand like 10-4os or K2 and end up with quads or sick straight. As for the first 2 situations - they work perfectly during early stages of tourneys, specially in rebuys at iPoker and re-entries at ACR. But things change as you approach to the final table
I don't know why, and I don't insist, it's just my observation and experience. It's something like a set of rules while the prize pool is building. It works well during late registration, and it's not working during late stages of the MTT. It's not working in SnGs, not working in cash games, only during rebuy or late registration period at few specific poker platforms, and it works during the first hour of a freeroll. Test it for yourself, it's easy at ACR and iPoker.
It's quite shocking when you're getting 80/20 results by calling monster all-ins with trash
hands, while your opponent mathematically ahead in 80% of cases, but instead he's losing in 80% of cases because he haven't played the hand in the right sequence.