Re: fun hand with a maniac
Nice raise on the turn, although BB should have realized you can raise here with a lot less than a K, seeing as how noone besides the maniac has showed any postflop strength. BB pretty much dug his own grave by not giving you a reason to fear him with a preflop or flop reraise, which demonstrates why you have to be careful when slowplaying a vulnerable hand like that. And by mucking the QQ face up, he's really providing a lot of encouragement for guys to try pushing him around later too. If he's a decent player, he should really be kicking himself for this one.
I think the hand would be perfect if you raised on the river. Maniac liked the flop, and didn't like your turn raise, which should make him less likely to have a K than a flopped pair. It does sound like he might be capable of folding a crappy pair here though, which would lessen the value of your river raise, so it's a judgement call really. Maybe I just have a weakness for thin river raises, since they look so intimidating when they work.
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