[Fantam]

I like the suggestion which you are making, and have sometimes used the check/call line to encourage loose bets from opponents also.

I think as some of the posters have pointed out, that you need to balance this approach, with being careful not to be too passive when you probably have the best hand but your opponent is likely to have a lot of outs to beat you.

Also I think that it should be fairly obvious that you might take this approach to try to maximise bets from an opponent when you are heads up, as opposed to being in a multiway pot when you might need to bet/raise to protect your hand.