The strategy heads-up against a maniac

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Every hand or through just put all-in. On my raise opponent do re-raise with any garbage on his hands. As a result, it arrives and I lose a duel. How better to build the game in this case? (SNG game, hads-up, $3.50)
 
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My opinion is that there is no maniac players, every kind of play is good play for someone else, if its not for him self or you. maybe simply wait for big hand and call him, do not call big blind, just to see flop, until you are ready to call his future all in. and when he just call big from small, do not raise even if you have good hand. check flop 1st, then react. His crazy way to play, will crush him down once, and you just stay patient :* good luck
 
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i would go all in with every A kQ Kj just to scare him off, it might work and it might not. some people are just crazy and love bingo
 
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I go allin with monster hands... and sometime i try to annoy him
 
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Every hand or through just put all-in. On my raise opponent do re-raise with any garbage on his hands. As a result, it arrives and I lose a duel. How better to build the game in this case? (SNG game, hads-up, $3.50)
Thats a really hard position to be in. In that situation I only play premium hands cause thats all you can do. Oh, you could also try a prayer to the poker gods.:D
 
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you just need to pick him off preflop, you are at the subject of variance vs these players, so rematch them as often as possible and hopefully get them to tilt.

generally you want to just widen your value ranges and fold more hands preflop. you can't just play premium hands, you have to widen things to like Ax Decent KX QX anything with high card value and pick him off, any broadway and most pairs are good to go preflop. if you wait he will crush you, and you will have to go all in with half a stack, but if you win you get nothing out of it, if you make the stand early you can basically win the thing in a few hands.
 
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Lol, these are the opponents you can only wish for.
Just be patient, limp more often and raise less until you hit something, you don't need to tight up your range a lot, just play a little more passive.
I love playing with those type of players, easy&fast money.
 
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in most cases i would say be aggresive ,but in this case i think laying in wait looking to trap fits here-play your normal game and let agressor give away his chips-when im hu i look to be agressor when im not i simpley tighten up my range a bit and wait for a monster to trap with
 
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well I had this players and I like to play them since I trap them with a monster hand. you need to let them win for a while until the right hand arrives, cheq, let him go all in and then he is traped! :D
 
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pick a hand and move with it preflop or smooth call-trap. I play like a maniac (but not all ins with crap) when i know villian is a chicken who wont play back unless he has something and in HU more ofton then not he has crap like me so if he wants to blind himself away and not fight back against my 3bets preflop thats fine and believe me there are a lot of players who are to careful and or to scared to gamble with 3 bucks. I abuse that person and honestly i win 80% or more against villians like these, it pays off to have the image of a maniac....sometimes lol
 
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When and where does he play? Love maniacs (if this is not a rigged PS bot).
 
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After seeing them all the time in spin-n-gos, I decided to use push/fold charts (trying to memorize them, lol).
 
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i think you dont need to wait a monster hand, because the blind go up fast and the stack go away fast too. Try to play more hand when you can, with cards in swits, go allin with any pair of cards, etc. Take a control of a table and the villan, you need to show him security ;)
 
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limping strong hands to shove over his raise, 3bet PF wider and call his open shoves wider Ax K5+ Q6+ Kxs - Jxs
 
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just wait for a really good hand and in the end call his all in
 
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Raise him with every reasonable hand.
 
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Wait for a good hand and get the maximum possible of chips
 
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Remember especially in HU play we want to expose the other players weaknesses, the more 'maniac' the player the more to expose.

Start by limp folding your smaller hands of he is constantly re raising we can limp shove small and big hands to hide our range. Play tight post flip and wait for a medium pair and call him down.
 
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just wait for a decent hand and call his all in.
 
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don't know why people think these types of players are the easiest to face HU, the easiest to face HU are obviously the passive tight opponants who just give you the game without any real risk. playing against anyone aggressive HU is much tougher...
 
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don't know why people think these types of players are the easiest to face HU, the easiest to face HU are obviously the passive tight opponants who just give you the game without any real risk. playing against anyone aggressive HU is much tougher...

These types of players are only the most ideal players to play against when we are catching cards, if not they can be very deadly! Just as catching cards against a TAG player just means we aren't getting any value out of our hands.
 
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My limited experience with these has been to fight fire with fire, especially during high blinds at the end of a 9-player SnG. I've found that players who shove almost every hand when they're first to act will often be reluctant to call if you do the same. You're guaranteed second place money no matter what, in this situation if somebody wants to play for stacks I'm going to do likewise. IMO it's better to go down swinging than losing all your chips to the blinds anyway.

A HU SnG is a very different situation, especially when you're faced with aggression right from the very start. Definitely open your range and don't play passively unless you're trapping, and don't let the opponent start pushing you around. You don't have to wait for premium hands, often one Broadway card is good enough to win in a showdown.
 
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While the blind is down it is easy to handle, but with very high blind already difficult enough.
 
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These types of players are only the most ideal players to play against when we are catching cards, if not they can be very deadly! Just as catching cards against a TAG player just means we aren't getting any value out of our hands.
we dont have to get as much value from our hands because they are giving us a tonne of value preflop by folding too much. This also allows us to basically take every pot with a low board texture, and makes them much easier to read. so i guess it depends on what your definition of TAG or tight is in HU poker, but if he's folding say 40-50% of his buttons it's game over when i'm raising 100% of my buttons.

My limited experience with these has been to fight fire with fire, especially during high blinds at the end of a 9-player SnG. I've found that players who shove almost every hand when they're first to act will often be reluctant to call if you do the same. You're guaranteed second place money no matter what, in this situation if somebody wants to play for stacks I'm going to do likewise. IMO it's better to go down swinging than losing all your chips to the blinds anyway.

A HU SnG is a very different situation, especially when you're faced with aggression right from the very start. Definitely open your range and don't play passively unless you're trapping, and don't let the opponent start pushing you around. You don't have to wait for premium hands, often one Broadway card is good enough to win in a showdown.

100% agree, you can't just roll over and "wait for good hands" you have to be the aggressor, in a lot of cases vs an overly aggressive opponant if you show him you won't take it and make a stand early, they will back down and play a much tighter range. mix it up and look for openings where you can attack, sometimes that might mean limping, other times it might be opening your 3bet range up a huge amount.
 
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I don't like waiting for a good hand either. Too easy for the aggressor to pick up on and keep you from getting paid off enough to make up for all the folds. Put the pressure back on your opponent and make them second guess themselves.
 
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