Fascinating Style of Play

[drewjax]

I play with a young kid who plays the same way, but even WORSE!! Truly. He never, ever, will raise from big blind. He almost never bets, or raises, just calls you down with big hands. He will check with top pair all day. It is a really low buy in tournament structure, so we arent trying to get to WSOP from here, but it is frustrating. He is really bad, but still does ok for himself. I trapped him and his brother, finally, with top 2 pr. They called me down but the brother caught straight on river (of course) to bust me out and go on to win (I would have had 2/3 of chips in play). I think its harder to play against players like this than just horrible maniacs. He always thinks everyone else has the nuts, and calls seemingly reluctantly, then turns up close to the nuts himself. I have got to be able to play against these players. Anyone got advise, or other stories of meatheads?

[hime]

Uh, this sounds not too far off from how I've been playing lately... tight, basically. What am I doing wrong? I still haven't figured out when to bet and when not to. I play mostly tournaments, and I'm following the advice of that one guy - limp limp limp. I hate raising pre-flop and then getting nothing. I can't figure out with AK overcards what to do with 3 ducks on the board.

I'm not much of a bluffer but I can semi-bluff pretty well, and because of my tightness I have something of an image that if I bet hard that I should be avoided. The other fun thing is I just don't read people. I'm really more interested in the cards and the numbers. Am I doing everything completely wrong?