Re: Certainly there\'s a better line
There are two reasonable ways to play this hand:
1. Fold preflop. It is a very marginal situation. You have no guarentee of getting heads up, no fold equity with a pair versus a maniac, and bad implied odds because of your poor position and small pair. You will lose more money when you are beat than you will win when 44 is the best hand.
2. 3-bet preflop to isolate. Once you get heads up versus this player you are virtually committed to showing your hand down unless you get counterfeited or something. It is not possible to learn enough about a maniac's hand to justify a fold. The whole point of playing a negative implied odds hand preflop is to capture your share of the preflop pot equity by showing down versus his random hand.
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