“Tight is Right” may be an old-fashioned motto but is still popular due to some instances that it could be true. Sociology doctoral student, Kyle Siler from Cornell University made an actual study of the poker game. He was able to come up a conclusion that players who play more hands often lose more money compare to their conservative opponents.

Kyle Siler was an online poker player himself for such a long-time already. He performed his experiment and find out that the more hands a player enter, the more money they lose at the end of the balance sheet. In such scenario where a player wins in more hands, they make small profits on their hands since the amount lost was greater when they will compute their overall earnings.

Siler broken down between small, medium and high stakes players from the 27 million hands he complied using the Poker Tracker and analyzed the overall results. His study suggests that poker players should know what to look for exactly be their overall cash won or lost.

In addition to Siler’s conclusion, he also stated in his study that was published in the Journal of Gambling Studies that smaller pairs 2 to 7 is actually more valuable compare to the middle pairs from 8-Jack because of the less ambiguous values of small pairs and medium pairs that have more ambiguous values and are better hands that most players find hard to understand.