First Time Poster ... playing with maniacs

[Frond]

Like the song says, "Tighten Up". That is what I usually do in this situation. I had this happen to me about a month ago live in a 2-4 game. This idiot guy was on my left and he was the maniac at the table for sure. I wanted to move to another seat so I could get him on my right but it didnt open up that way. I just really tightened up my play and he ventually busted out from his silly bets, raises and calls etc. It is good to stay at the table for a while of you can for the learning experience of playing with a maniac. One needs to have experience with one because every single table is different from the next. Watch a manicacs chip stack when you play. They generally swing up and back in large amounts. They get a big stack going and more often than not blow it all. Sometiems they do make a nice score but it is a short run type of a profit.

[TheLamprey]

What's this about playing super-tight in wild games? I recently sat at a table with two instigators (one was 100/100/AF off the chart, the other was 75/75/AF off the chart) about 4 loose passives and a rock. It was understood that every street was going to be capped due to the 2 instigators.
I saw about %30 of flops, which meant that on average I was playing better cards than my instigator opponents and the loose passives who were getting involved in 40-60% of the hands. I lost money in this game but got several marginal +EV opportunities such as my Q8s vs the instigators J6s and T3o.

I think that with bad players you want to loosen up somewhat, to play more hands against them that are better on average than the hands that they are playing, and playing badly. I think this applies to loose passives and bad LAG's both.