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Jimbob900
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Ok so tonight at 1/3 live I went up against a maniac. He played almost every hand. Would show things like j5 offsuit at showdown
I tried open raising bigger pre flop but I still got callers and he would always call. I would 3 bet his open raises and he would call with nothing. This was good to trap him with premium hands EXCEPT he would hit 2 pair, sets, you name it. Busted out quite a few guys. When I would open raise it would let him 3bet me and it was such a big pot on the flop that if I didn’t hit it was hard to continue in the hand.
So I started limping in with my good hands and let him raise to build a pot for me and slow played him and it worked. Is it ok to limp vs a maniac? I’ve always played if you play a hand raise it but tonight raising was just throwing money away Bc pot was almost always was 4 handed especially with the maniac. Limping let me control the pot size to an extent..
I tried open raising bigger pre flop but I still got callers and he would always call. I would 3 bet his open raises and he would call with nothing. This was good to trap him with premium hands EXCEPT he would hit 2 pair, sets, you name it. Busted out quite a few guys. When I would open raise it would let him 3bet me and it was such a big pot on the flop that if I didn’t hit it was hard to continue in the hand.
So I started limping in with my good hands and let him raise to build a pot for me and slow played him and it worked. Is it ok to limp vs a maniac? I’ve always played if you play a hand raise it but tonight raising was just throwing money away Bc pot was almost always was 4 handed especially with the maniac. Limping let me control the pot size to an extent..