5CD - Maniac with pat hand (Somewhat low content)
 

I got this hand today. MP had been playing quite normally for a while, but he suddenly "changed gears". Here's some statistics from the eight hands before this one occured:

MP raised predraw: 5 hands
limped predraw: 1 hand
called predraw: 1 hand
won uncontested from BB: 1 hand

One of the times he was called he drew four cards. Here's the hand I played against him:


Limit 5 Card Draw ($0.50/$1) (converter)

SB ($25.25), Seat 6
Hero ($27.25), Seat 1
UTG ($5), Seat 2
MP ($6.50), Seat 3
CO ($1.25), Seat 4
Button ($24.30), Seat 5

SB posts $0.25. Hero posts $0.50.

Hero is BB with [As 3c Ac Qc Kd]

Round 1: (1.50 SB)

<font color="#666666">UTG folds. </font><font color="red">MP raises. </font><font color="#666666">CO folds. </font><font color="#666666">Button folds. </font><font color="#666666">SB folds. </font><font color="red">Hero raises. </font><font color="red">MP raises. </font>Betting is capped. <font color="green">Hero calls. </font>
Hero discards 3c Qc Kd. MP stands pat.

Hero has [As Ac 2s 3d 2d]

Round 2: (4.25 BB)

<font color="green">Hero checks. </font><font color="red">MP bets. </font>Hero?

I was going to post the results, but I might as well ask what you would do here. Any opinions about the hand?

Thanks to two pair that turned into a full house three hands later, I made a nice comeback after a bad run early in the day.

Re: 5CD - Maniac with pat hand (Somewhat low content)
 

I'd call post draw. He's been erratic and you've got a strong hand. Pre-draw I would call against a normal (passive) player, but I'd raise vs the nut.

Re: 5CD - Maniac with pat hand (Somewhat low content)
 

I think it's a pretty safe call postdraw with his behaviour, you're getting 1:5 odds he's bluffing or semibluffing with a worse two pair, which sounds like a reasonable chance against a maniac. Nothing wrong with 3-betting predraw either, you're favorite against a random hand, which isn't far from his playing range it seems.

Re: 5CD - Maniac with pat hand (Somewhat low content)
 

My opponent had a pair of tens. Good thing that he didn't draw to that hand. He could have made trips and beaten me [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]