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BobbySalami
Old 05-21-2005, 07:01 PM     Post subject: Cold cards and maniacs...... #1 (permalink)  
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I just got done playing at a table that was ripe for the picking....it was a table full of maniacs that would raise huge with any two cards just trying to double up quickly....

However, I never once picked up a hand that was worth calling these huge raises PF....I think my % of seeing the flop was at like 15% in this session. Once I picked up AA on the button, but that was the time they all decided to fold to me..........

I just knew if I ever hit a hand they would gladly pay me off, but the chance never came...this was for 1.5 hours before the table finally broke off.

Did I do the right thing in camping for monsters?...or should I have stooped to their level?

Thanks
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Old 05-22-2005, 11:09 PM     Post subject: Re: Cold cards and maniacs...... #2 (permalink)  
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I just got done playing at a table that was ripe for the picking....it was a table full of maniacs that would raise huge with any two cards just trying to double up quickly....

However, I never once picked up a hand that was worth calling these huge raises PF....I think my % of seeing the flop was at like 15% in this session. Once I picked up AA on the button, but that was the time they all decided to fold to me..........

I just knew if I ever hit a hand they would gladly pay me off, but the chance never came...this was for 1.5 hours before the table finally broke off.

Did I do the right thing in camping for monsters?...or should I have stooped to their level?

Thanks
If you're on a table where everyone else is a maniac, the best advice is to get off the table as quickly as you can!!! Whatever you do, don't join in with their crazy moves.

We all know that the easiest profits come from maniacs who raise with weak/marginal hands and play all sorts of rubbish through to the river, but you don't want too many of them on the table. If this is what you are faced with, the game becomes something of a lottery and the skill factor becomes negligible, which of course is not what you want. So find another table with one, two or a few, but not all, maniacs on it.

When you had AA, if this was the first time you entered a pot or raised pre-flop, then the warning signs would have been there and even maniacs can recognise them occasionally. So your move probably had danger written all over it as the maniacs may have pegged you as a tight player, and so they dumped their hands.
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Old 05-22-2005, 11:58 PM     Post subject: Re: Cold cards and maniacs...... #3 (permalink)  
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Okay.....I always thought that was what you were looking for because it could have the potential to give you so much money....but thanks. I will look for a different table if I run into it again.

and about the AA. I was on the button and nobody even limped it folded around to me, and then the blinds folded. This was after people before me would pump it to 5-8 times the blinds with Q4o.

Geuss ill just avoid these situations from now on.
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Old 05-23-2005, 04:19 AM #4 (permalink)  
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I think playing in those kinds of games is fun if you can handle some variance.

Especially if they'll call big reraises with that trash.

If so, you don't have to wait for a big pocket pair. Stuff like AQ/AK will hold up just fine against Q4. As will any pair better than fours.

The only problem is that you run into a lot of bad beats, and also you run into some hands. But I love to gamble with these people...their hands can't hold up in the long term. I'm assuming you can isolate...
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