Flush draw heads-up against a near-maniac

[GrunchCan]

The opponent is a wierd combination of tight and maniac. He only plays 20% of his hands, but when he does play he bets and raises nearly 100% of the time.

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Preflop: Hero is SB with K/images/graemlins/club.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, CO folds, Button folds, Hero calls, BB folds.

Flop: (5 SB) 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero...?

There's no question that I'm playing. The question is how? What's my general line here? Try to take control? Or try to get to the end cheap?

[Entity]

If he only plays 20% of his hands but plays all of them aggressively, why did you call here?

[cold_cash]

That's kinda what I was wondering.

BTW, I don't think you want to try and "take control" in this spot.

[Shillx]

Fold preflop. Check and call this baby.

Brad

[GrunchCan]

Well, normally I'd muck PF in this spot, but not this time. Here's why.

The opponent's stats over 650 hands were 20/19. In other words, he was on the loose end of correctly tight PF, and came in for a raise with 95% of the hands he plays. In that situation, his raises mean absolutely nothing. Since he was in MP and everyone before him folded, there is a very wide range of hands he could be on.

So now the question becomes, what's the default play HU against 1 opponent in an unraised pot with KQo? I'll often limp in the SB, and so that's what I did here. I figured my equity was quite high, greater than 50%.

In fact, considering all this, perhapes I should have re-raised.