I frequently play a gentleman who is the most arigant son of a bitch you'll ever meet about his fabulous poker skills and likes talking trash at the table. He's so good that I had to tell him what pot odds are one day, but he's super aggressive and can be very very lucky. Here's his playing style.

He will go all in pre flop with frequency; if he's not all in pre flop, by the time the river comes he will be. People always seem to fold to him thinking he always must have monsters. When people do call him with say A/K and he goes ai preflop, many times the little bastard will have a small pocket pair like 4's, his op might hit an ace on the flop, but the little shit always seems to land a 4 on the river! He has a tendancy to get under my skin, though he's never really made me tilt, but I need more effective ways to beat him. Here's what I've been trying to do. Any adjustments or recommendations to this strategy are much appreciated as mine that I've used for him is good, but I still loose more than I should to him as I feel as far as over all poker skills I'm better. This guy just has incredible balls.

I will usually try to wait on good hands, group 1 and 2 hands, then I'm comfortable coin tossing with him as nobody else will call his huge bets pre flop. If I have position on him and he calls or makes smaller raises preflop I'll often raise/reraise him, he has the tendancy to be able to fold when he knows he's caught. If I'm on a drawing hand and somehow he forgets to raise preflop and I'm bb and limp in, if I hit and tend to be very passive as he folds to lots of action most of the time, so I check to him and wait for him to raise. If he senses weakness, he'll go all in 99 percent of the time, so I check and wait for him to raise me ai and I can usually get him.

I think part of my problem is sometimes I play him too passive and forget the rest of the table. I forget that he folds to action most of the time. Its hard when he's more than happy to raise you all in any minute. I feel stupid raising on a drawing hand to have him reraise me ai and folding to him.

Any suggestions to my strategy for beating a player like this would be very helpful. I never loose too much to him, but I think I could win a lot more. Thanks again.

Cory