The other night, I saw a guy adopt the policy of calling all relatively big preflop raises no matter what cards he had. I saw him suck out monster pairs with J5 and 79.

He built up quite a large stack and people didn't really know how to play against him because he could be holding absolutely anything.

I thought I'd try this myself in a session last night. I played my usual game till i had a relatively large stack (2 x but-in), then put the gameplan into action. I very quickly doubled my stack size by sucking out KK with 64 and QQ with T8. I was hated at the table and the guys I sucked out went on tilt and were playing a lot more hands.

So, i was wondering is this a long term profitable way of playing? Or did I just have a lucky session? The preflop raises are usually about $3 (at $50NL), not a lot of money to put down with the potential of taking down a $50-$100 stack.

At the limits I play (mainly $50NL, sometimes $100 NL), you often find people cant lay down a monster overpair no matter what action they get post flop.

I only adopted his play once I had a big stack myself and perhaps had earned a little respect at the table and i would only call raises from people with biggish stacks so that the implied odds were higher.

What do you guys think?