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[w_alloy]

This sounds like a viable strategy. I'm surprised it took this thread this long to come up with this (also referrring to the post a bit above this where someone else also identifies this strategy).

It now seems most likely, as others have stated, that he gives up small ev, mostly pre-flop and with some call downs like the one in the hand earlier, and this causes his opponents to make lots of mistakes. Hence, he's probably running somewhere in the 1.5-2.5 range and is running good.

Edit: I'd like to add that i often play preflop like this against tight and/or predictable tags because the extra bets often do make them play incorrectly, and you really arent giving up much.