ckessel
03-21-2005, 01:55 PM
On PP last night, 2/4 table and ran into my first true maniac. I've seen aggressive, and call everything types. But this guy played about 80% of the pots and raised almost every single preflop, flop, and turn. Dropped 400 in about 2 hours I think.
Some interesting things. He was on my left. Not where you usually want a maniac, but in this case I was able to use his aggression by raising hands I'd normally just call from early position (ATo) banking on the fact he'd reraise and drive out a lot of hands or drag people along that would wither if their 88 didn't hit a set on the flop.
The other amazing thing was the shark effect. Blood in the water... The table started with me and mostly VPIP > 30 people. By the end of the 2 hours, it was the maniac, one other loose player, and 8 VPIP<22 folks.
Soon as the maniac busted out, the table instantly, I mean in one hand, dissolved.
Some interesting things. He was on my left. Not where you usually want a maniac, but in this case I was able to use his aggression by raising hands I'd normally just call from early position (ATo) banking on the fact he'd reraise and drive out a lot of hands or drag people along that would wither if their 88 didn't hit a set on the flop.
The other amazing thing was the shark effect. Blood in the water... The table started with me and mostly VPIP > 30 people. By the end of the 2 hours, it was the maniac, one other loose player, and 8 VPIP<22 folks.
Soon as the maniac busted out, the table instantly, I mean in one hand, dissolved.