Carl "The Dean" Sampson is a well known poker player and author, and is currently a Cake Poker sponsored pro. Carl will be contributing to Poker News Daily on a regular basis, and you can also read Carl's blog on his website PokerSharkpool.com With the preponderance of six-max ring games now dominating the online scene, there doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of theory on full ring games with between eight and ten players. At the lower stakes, good sound solid play will still get the money; but as you move up and your opponents are more alert you will definitely need to think about adding some randomisation to your play. I will refer to the medium stakes levels of NL400 up to and including NL1000. Whilst it is certainly correct to randomise your play further up the ladder, many players who are coming up from NL100 and NL200 are doing so with their same old predictable game and their results are suffering because of it. Let us take a look at an example from NL600 where having some randomisation will help you. You are sitting in the hijack seat with the 10d-9d and this nine-handed table ...