Make sure you either double or triple your stack as soon as possible, and make sure you are not involved in the pots with a bigger stack.
If not, then you'll be losing to bigger stacks no mater what hands you have. They'll out-flop, out-turn and out-river you. If you have AK of diamonds and a bigger stack calls you with KJ of hearts, then be sure J with two smaller hearts will come on the flop and the bigger stack will complete his flush.
As a smaller stack you'll almost never hit a set, straight or flush. That's something reserved for the bigger stacks. You will never ever complete your draw against a bigger stack. Forget it. Actually, PokerStars will set you up with a perfect draw just to make you lose all your chips to a bigger stack.
If you hit a top pair, a bigger stack will get two pairs. If you hit two pairs, a bigger stack will get set or straight or flush. If you hit full house, a bigger stack will get four of a kind. And if you hit A high flush, a bigger stack will get straight flush.
A coin flip? That's something bigger stacks win 99 out of 100 times. You have AK against a big stack's 77? Forget it, you won't hit A or a K. Or if you hit one of them he will hit a set. You have 77 against a bigger stack's AK? Forget it. A or K will come, and you won't hit your set.
All of this has nothing to do with real poker and variance. It's all about PokerStars rake and it's disgusting.
