How to adjust to playing against a maniac?

[Barcalounger]

My read is that UTG is absolutely insane. >80% VPIP and >20% PFR after almost 100 hands. This is not a bad beat post, I was just plain outplayed all night by him. What's a good strategy for a sLA-A with an overpair against a maniac that could be holding any 2 cards? I'm thinking that on this hand a bigger bet pre-flop or a check on the turn could have possibly helped me get out of this hand. But honestly who knows? I had him pegged to a small connector that caught a peice of the flop (T9) or an Ace rag that caught a peice (A9) but I guess I was thinking too rationally. He of course lost all his money later (to somebody besides me), but I can't shake the feeling that I was playing against him all wrong and I cost myself a peice of his stash. Working off this bonus has been brutal.

Party Poker $25 No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 6 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero ($44.68)
BB ($24.6)
UTG ($28.62)
MP ($30.4)
CO ($65.3)
Button ($24.25)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif. Hero posts a blind of $0.25.
UTG calls $0.50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO calls $0.50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero (poster) raises to $1.75</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG calls $1.50, CO folds.

Flop: ($5) 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $3</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $6</font>, Hero calls $3.

Turn: ($17) J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $7</font>, UTG calls $20.62 (All-In), Hero calls $13.62.

River: ($58.24) 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: $58.24

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Qc Qs (two pair, queens and fives).
UTG has 6s 8d (straight, nine high).
Outcome: UTG wins $58.24. </font>

[MarkL444]

may have been unavoidable, but with your position id raise more pf.

[krazyace5]

I read a part in SS2 about this.

Call more
Raise less
Don't valuebet

[amoeba]

[ QUOTE ]
I read a part in SS2 about this.

Call more
Raise less
Don't valuebet

[/ QUOTE ]

the raise less means raise less often, not raise less money.

and whatever you do, don't try to move them off a hand.

[AncientPC]

Unavoidable, but raise to $2 - $3 if you do raise pre-flop.