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

THEjDonk · #1 05-18-2007, 04:10 AM

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)

UTG folds. MP raises. CO folds. Button folds. SB folds. Hero raises. MP raises. Betting is capped. Hero calls. 
Hero discards 3c Qc Kd. MP stands pat.

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

Round 2: (4.25 BB)

Hero checks. MP bets. 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.

VickreyAuction · #2 05-18-2007, 04:48 AM

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.

LLCoolDave · #3 05-18-2007, 06:55 AM

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.

THEjDonk · #4 05-21-2007, 12:02 PM

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]