As I'm continuing to have the good fortune of finding tables with maniacs, I'm still a little lost as to whether passive-but-don't-fold vs. aggressive-but-sometimes-fold is a better approach with big pairs vs. players who will bet and raise any two.
Or maybe I'm just being too simplistic about this and it always depends on the situation too much to make general conclusions?
Anyway, since I posted 3 where I slowed down following the first raise, here is one where I didn't until the 2nd raise.
UTG+1 is a fairly typical, but not too bad, LAG. MP2 and UTG+2 are very loose, very aggressive, and play middle or bottom pair aggressively postflop.
HAND 4:
Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed)
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Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises</font>, UTG+2 calls, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">
3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, BB calls, <font color="#CC3333">UTG caps</font>, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 calls, MP2 calls, Hero calls, BB calls.
Flop: (24 SB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(6 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB calls, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 calls, MP2 calls.
Turn: (18 BB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG+2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls.
River: (24 BB) A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, MP2 checks.
Final Pot: 24 BB