The other night I was watching someone (a fellow called Elky) play in the 10/20 NL table at Stars. And there was this player there called Michael1123 or something similar to that. Anyway this Michael dude was raising ~95% of the pots preflop, and raising/betting all the time postflop, regardles of his cards. In other words he looked like an aggressive maniac to me (though I would say a smart agg maniac). Anyway, while Michael is stealing the blinds constantly and winning most of the big pots, the entire table is in super tight/passive mode, waiting for monster hands so they could take Michaels stack.

Now normally, just as the opening post mentioned, agg maniacs usually bled away their money at NL tables, but these guy was the exact opposite - the first hand I saw was when he lost a ~8k pot to Elky when Elky hit one of his 4 outs on the river, then a while later he lost another huge pot which left him with like 2k, but honestly within about 90 minutes he had turned that 2k back into ~20k. It was unbelievable. Makes me want to be an aggressive maniac, lol.

Hmm now that I think about it this post isnt really contributing anything useful to the thread.... oh well.