I played, for about two hours, a guy heads-up who raised every hand preflop, 3-bet anytime I raised on the button, and bet every street when checked to. No, not just “virtually” every hand. LITERALLY every hand. He would call a checkraise on the river with any hand better than K-high (and sometimes called with Q-high as well).

However, he would fold the really worthless hands if I checkraised him on the flop or the turn - so I didn’t do that. My strategy was mostly to raise my big equity hands preflop (which meant they got capped) and then proceed to call down any king, ace or flopped pair (or pocket pair). There was probably more value to be had somewhere, but it looked like he played with his entire bankroll so it was mostly a matter of time before I won it.

And won it I did. Although the session started out with me losing quite a few big hands, and it took me surprisingly long to win it back. But won it back I did. Once I was absolutely certain that his pattern wasn’t just a freak few hands, and that he would indeed play AA and 7-2 the same way - raise, bet, bet, bet - it was only a matter of time. However, the strategy isn’t THAT bad on his behalf. Betting all the time is close enough to proper strategy that if it wasn’t for the meta-game (that it becomes so obvious what he’s doing) it might be a winning style. If every hand was played in a vacuum, where I didn’t know who I was playing, betting all the time, while not optimal, is not as far-fetched of a winning strategy as you might think.

Anyway. It became mechanical after awhile and boring while profitable. Still, I stuck it out, which meant that I didn’t get to bed until 4am this morning - and I got up at 9. I need to try to find a nap somewhere today.

/FP