Did anyone not get any of their accommodation preferences?

I’m currently applying for first year accommodation. I’m a little bit fussy about accommodation, and am thinking of putting a couple of my choices as things that have a low number of bed spaces, so that I’d be unlikely to be allocated to them and would instead be more likely to be allocated to the accommodation that I really want. However, I know that this would increase the risk of me not getting anything on my preference list. Did anyone try something like this? Did it pay off?