Ok, I'm sure you've all seen him at one time or another. He is created during tournament play.
It's that one guy that calls everything, bets with nothing, and gets lucky and wins. In a few hands he has an enormous advantage in chips and can't be stopped.
I played this home game last night with 6 players and this one guy did not get a losing hand. He would stay in and catch backdoor flush draws, hit his gutshot straights in consecutive hands and worse yet, half the time he wouldn't even know he had it. He would just flip his cards up and say like, 'I was close' and then someone else would have to tell him he had a straight for the third hand in a row because his 9 5 would play with the K Q 6 7 8 out there. Well they goes my pocket rockets. Any raise you make into him before or after the flop he would call because he had won so many pots anyway. Even if you went all-in. Playing against him I had the most frustrating cold streak ever in poker. Once I finally floped top pair with K 7 2 showing on the board. He bets into me with 7 10 or something. Since he's been like this all night I figured I could just call and check raise on the turn but no, the turn come... 7 again.. Then he makes a larger bet... I couldn't believe I throw my hand away only to watch him out kick the other guys set. IT was SO frustrating! Yea, my buddy got taken out as well with ridiculus odds. My buddy holds A10s and the flop comes 10 10 5, he's all in.. the monster calls with 89o and gets two runners to make a straight to kill the set. Why!! Arghh!!
Honestly, the luckiest cards I've ever seen. How do you play against a guy like that? Yes, I know they usually build a big stack and give it all back by the end but it was short handed game and his friggin karma or chi was spot on. Ricockulous!
Ricockulous? Nice pun, never heard that one before...
Gotta punish him with your good hands and hope they hold up. You're looking for a spot to double through him. If he's going to call you anyway, only bet for value and not as a bluff. If he sucks out on you, then it's just his night for the deck to run him over. It's the magical thing known as variance and it what keeps the bad players coming back for more. He will remember the night that he could do no wrong and forget the other 25 nights where he busted out early and donated his money to everyone else. Sucks to be against it on that night, but overall it's good for the game because if your description is correct, you want his dead money there to play as often as possible.
Bluffing more is more proper in a shorthanded game (i.e. betting on nothing all night..) so in that aspect he was playing closer to correct than he intentionally tried. He caught lucky on his effective semi-bluffs and that shows the strength of the semi-bluff, regardless if he was *trying* to semibluff.
