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if you are going to play - raise preflop.

vs Maniacs best strategy is to tighten up your preflop range but when you do play hands come out firing.

He is raising 17% of hands dealt thats 66+,A5s+,K9s+,Q9s+,JTs,ATo+,KTo+,QTo+

QT is at the bottom of that range so I'd fold preflop, vs this guy I'd play any 22+ Axs KTs+ QJs+ AJo+ KJo+ QJo+ and if he raised them pre I'd 3bet him with all of them.

This guys "has the goods postflop" most of the time, so make the pots preflop and on the flop bigger and let him make more mistakes early on. Maniacs are looking to win a bunch of small pots with agression quickly without resistance.

Put up resistance and Maniacs fold too often and will overplay hands and stack off when they misread your holdings. re-raising preflop shortens the game play - as it means stacks can be got in before the river, which magnifies any mistakes in your favour.

as played just call the lagtard down and shutdown if another [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] falls.

If we raise and he has nada he folds, he's over aggro and will bluff if we let him, so give him rope to hang himself with.