No Look Play

At a home game on Saturday, I was playing 4-handed against one very tight player, one unknowledgable player, and one good player. We played for an hour or two, when I decided to try an experiment and not look at my hole cards. Of course I pretended to look, but didn't lift the corner up far enough to actually see. The idea was to free myself up from thinking about my own hand, so I could focus on what I believed my opponnents were holding. Once I decided what I believed them to have, I could bet the straight when it came, or fold if they were drawing to it. I never looked at my cards until I made the decisioin that they liked their hand very much, and was ready to fold. Twice I didn't fold when I looked because it turned out I had a made hand (once two pair losing to a larger two pair, and once with a long 7-card straight - won).

It helps that I knew these players very well before I sat down. The tight player is tripped up by the 'stop and go' a tremendous amount of the time. Just by calling his flop bet and raising his turn bet, I won the majority of pots with him.

The unknowledgeable player was pretty much a calling station. He will hold out for good cards, but will fall in love with as little as AJ and call all the way down with that. Here I'd stab at the pot about once, before I really needed to check/fold my hand. He's not going to see or care about the flush/straight possibilites and couldn't easily be pushed off pots. There was very little chance to out-play this player, so I didn't play with him much.

The good player was the most interesting. He's capable of bluffing, capable of slow-playing and very aggressive on hands that need protecting. He can read the board and is pretty good at putting me on cards. So my reads had to be right on, and my actual hand mattered the least. I did fairly well short-handed against this player without looking (in the short term). I won more pots with him than I usually do, and the pots were larger, because we were testing each other quite a bit.

Has anyone else tried this?
What results did you have?
Would this be suicide at a full table?
Would this be completely ineffective without the solid reads I had on players?

I do this sometimes. I only do it when I'm player better/tighter players. My current home game is so full of wackies and fish that are uber calling stations.

I was actually pretty successful doing it with the better players. It was actually a very good exercise. But, i would make it clear i wasn't looking at my cards.

i do this when i'm the BB and it's checked to me. i have also been known to steal the blinds in LP without looking.

Well looking at your cards would have let you beat the unknowledgable player easily...