How to play behind an absolute maniac?

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I've sat down at a table where a maniac is seated to the immediate right of me, so if I want to see any cards I will have to cold-call or 3-bet everytime. As I'm a fairly new player (have about 15k hands to my name) I've not yet been in a situation quite like this.

Having a maniac like this also influences the table, people suddenly starts to play very loose to get their share of his chip spewing.

The maniac at this table had 75,68% VPIP, and 73% preflop raise through 37 hands. I do understand I don't meet such people often (enough), but when I sit to their direct left it's nice to know how to handle them. Here's an example hand I think went pretty good, but it might have been overly aggressive and recklessly played?

As I said, the maniac is to my direct left, so he's UTG. MP1 is 34 VPIP/5,36 PRF through 57 hands. Button is 46 VPIP/3,57 PRF through 28 hands.

Party Poker 0.5/1 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 caps</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Button calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG calls, Hero calls.

Flop: (17.50 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, MP1 folds, Button calls, UTG calls.

Turn: (11.75 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button folds, UTG calls.

River: (13.75 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG folds.

Final Pot: 14.75 BB


Thanks for any input.