topher0002
12-07-2004, 05:04 PM
Hey all, I play a mixture of live and online play of 3-6 and 2-4. I seem to have problems with maniacs. I can never win when there on the table. My best play is when it is a full ring game. Loose Passive table, 4 to 7 callers per hand...(normally this is 3-6 at my local casino.
Well I seem to have a problem with handling the maniac, I have read WLLH and SSH and maybe im just not following the rules but i get so frustrated with these guys when i should be welcoming their action. I just dont know what to play or how to play em.
Last night a guy was raising preflop every hand and getting 2-4 callers...before him this was a very looose passive table that i was beating, this guy came in raising with nothing preflop and bluffing like crazy...he broke me.
He would raise he was seat 10 i was 5...i would reraise with my better hands, high pairs, ak, aq, qj, and get beat out every time, some bad luck i guess but i couldnt lay anything down to this guy cause he would bet and raise with nothing...i didnt know what to do...even heads up if i had a pair i couldnt fold could I? so i would call him down and he would show me something crazy....How do you all play with these guys? I went from being up 60 to down 150 in an hour. Then when the table got shorthanded it was 5 or 6 people...he was doing the same thing , no matter what i couldnt win...i was so frustrated...
any light on the issue?
Well I seem to have a problem with handling the maniac, I have read WLLH and SSH and maybe im just not following the rules but i get so frustrated with these guys when i should be welcoming their action. I just dont know what to play or how to play em.
Last night a guy was raising preflop every hand and getting 2-4 callers...before him this was a very looose passive table that i was beating, this guy came in raising with nothing preflop and bluffing like crazy...he broke me.
He would raise he was seat 10 i was 5...i would reraise with my better hands, high pairs, ak, aq, qj, and get beat out every time, some bad luck i guess but i couldnt lay anything down to this guy cause he would bet and raise with nothing...i didnt know what to do...even heads up if i had a pair i couldnt fold could I? so i would call him down and he would show me something crazy....How do you all play with these guys? I went from being up 60 to down 150 in an hour. Then when the table got shorthanded it was 5 or 6 people...he was doing the same thing , no matter what i couldnt win...i was so frustrated...
any light on the issue?