Amazing fish

[GMan42]

The other day I sat to the right of one player whose play was so formulaic and bad that I openly speculated that he was a badly-written bot (he eventually replied in broken English that this wasn't the case [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]).

--He played about 80% of hands preflop, making no distinction of how many bets it was to him.
--He check-called virtually every street, folding on the turn only with no pair/no draw (as best I could tell).
--The only street he would voluntarily bet is the river, but only when checked to and when he had a made hand.
--I didn't see him raise once. I actually have some doubt he would even raise with the nuts, but didn't get the opportunity to see this.

It was a particularly frustrating session because I couldn't make any money off him. A typical hand: I limp with A3s, he calls, flop comes A83, I bet the whole way, he calls the whole way and shows down A8. I bang head on table.