Maniacs/Dumb players getting rewarded online?

It is said that a hyper-aggressive maniac will eventually go down but he will take down a lot of people with him. Like when you raise preflop with your Aces and get re-raised by the maniac, you reraise him and he calls.

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The maniac will also unknowingly make a lot of people fold their winning hands. Like when you got A4 and he got KQ, flop is AQ2 and he will reraise a player enough to make him fold (not knowing the maniac's a maniac of course). And just as you think you caught the maniac with a bad bet, in a similar hand, he would catch his K/Q on the river and call you an idiot for calling.

It does in fact take the Nuts to take down such player. But by the time this is done, his stack is so big that he only loses a fraction of his stack and repeats his process.

I personally avoid tables where players often go All-In with a massive stack on just top pair, Ace-high preflop, any PP preflop, flush/straight draws on flop of even rags.

At one of my home games, we had a maniac, he said to me when his turn will come he'll go all in. I said "my ass" and layed a 500$ chip down with my A6o (blinds were 15/30). He reraised me to 1000 and I went all in, he called. He had 74s and won by hitting a 7!

So... good read, good bet... bad results? I get laughed at for going all in with A6o but what about him??? 47s?

Discuss.

[pryor15]

**yawn**

[mmmmmbrother]

there just seems so many of them because they have a 2-3 week shelf life

[Rockatansky]

If dumb players weren't rewarded, I'd have busted out a long time ago.

[timprov]

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Maniacs, or people who post this crap?

[jman220]

For an appropriate response to this thread, please see Link. LINK

[gurkbajs]

As frustrating as maniacs can be...in the end they pay like an ATM card with open access, that is if you are solid player. The best advice is study more on how to play against those loose aggressive players.

[Sykes]

So, you hate money and you're also awful at poker? Good combination there.

[shant]

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So, you hate money and you're also awful at poker? Good combination there.

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Thread over.

[Alobar]

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So, you hate money and you're also awful at poker? Good combination there.

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