Playing with a maniac. How can I play this better?

[SweetP]

This is an entire tournament from tonight. Until my final hand this guy (Already 910) was pushing pre-flop or making enormous, comared to the blinds, raises.
Against this player did I play too tight? Three hands near the end where I was dealt AT and A8, should I have called these? I felt that they were better than what he was pushing.
Considering my stack at the end, should/could I have waited for a better opportunity?
How would you deal with this guy?

---Tournament Summary---
$1.10 SNG: Finished 32/45 for $0
Data for 18 hands.
You played 3 hands (16.67%)
You raised 1 times preflop (5.56%)

PokerStars Game #12567078823: Tournament #63776844, $1.00+$0.10 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2007/10/11 - 14:10:44 (ET)
Condensed history provided by the Tournament Trimmer (v1.1.4w) from FlopTurnRiver
Table '63776844 5' 9-max


[8d 7c] CO (M=50.00; f+f+p+f+f+F) Already 910: Initial push, shows [8h 7s] (high card Eight)
[Kh Td] CO-1 (M=50.00; c+p+f+p+F) Already 910: Initial push, shows [6h Ad] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
[8d 4h] MP1 (M=50.00; c+f+F) Already 910: Initial push, shows [7c Kc] (Lost with a pair of Kings)

-----Hand 1-----
Hero's M = 50.00
Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: jenti74 (1500 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: ACCaperton (4470 in chips)
Seat 3: fgump57 (1470 in chips)
Seat 4: Stupido009 (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: Already 910 (1590 in chips)
Seat 7: Pirat68 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero (1500 in chips)
Already 910: posts small blind 10
Pirat68: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Kc Kh]
Hero: raises 20 to 40
jenti74: folds
ACCaperton: folds
fgump57: calls 40
Stupido009: folds
Already 910 has timed out
Already 910: folds
Pirat68: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5c 5h 9h]
Pirat68: checks
Hero: bets 200
Already 910 has returned
fgump57: folds
Pirat68: raises 1260 to 1460 and is all-in
Hero: calls 1260 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5c 5h 9h] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [5c 5h 9h Jh] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Pirat68: shows [Qh 9c] (two pair, Nines and Fives)
Hero: shows [Kc Kh] (two pair, Kings and Fives)
Hero collected 3050 from pot

The min raise UTG here was to try and induce Already 910 to push. He didn't. Perhaps I should have limped.



[5d 6h] SB (M=101.67; f+c+f+p+F) Already 910: Initial push, Doesn't show
[4d 4s] BU (M=101.33; f+c+r+f+F) Already 910: Raises 260, Doesn't show
[Ad 2c] CO (M=101.33; c+c+f+F) Already 910: Initial push, shows [5d 3h] (a pair of Fives)
[7c 7s] MP1 (M=101.33; p+f+F) Already 910: Initial push, Doesn't show
[6d 3s] UTG+1 (M=101.33; f+F) Already 910: Initial push, Doesn't show
[Qc Th] UTG+1 (M=101.33; f+F) Already 910: Initial push, shows [8h 9d] (a pair of Eights)
[Ad Td] BB (M=101.33; f+f+f+c+c+r+f+F) Stupido009: Initial push, shows [Qc Ac] (a pair of Sixes)
[7h Th] SB (M=100.67; f+f+c+p+f+F) Already 910: Initial push, Doesn't show
[Jc 5h] BU (M=66.89; f+c+c+c+f+F) Already 910: Initial push, shows [6s 6h] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)

-----Hand 2-----
Hero's M = 66.89
Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: jenti74 (1435 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: fgump57 (1300 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 5: Eastes (1290 in chips)
Seat 6: Already 910 (8805 in chips)
Seat 7: BILL5353 (3380 in chips)
Seat 8: ManoloHH (1490 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: Hero (3010 in chips)
fgump57: posts small blind 15
Eastes: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Kh Js]
Already 910: calls 30
BILL5353: folds
ManoloHH: folds
Hero: calls 30
jenti74: folds
fgump57: folds
Eastes: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ac 8s Kd]
Eastes: checks
Already 910: bets 2940
Hero: folds
Eastes: calls 1260 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Ac 8s Kd] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 8s Kd 7h] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Eastes: shows [Ad Td] (a pair of Aces)
Already 910: shows [3s 3h] (a pair of Threes)
Eastes collected 2625 from pot


[Th As] MP1 (M=66.22; f+f+F) Already 910: Raises 5940, Doesn't show
[8d As] UTG+1 (M=66.22; f+F) Already 910: Raises 3450, shows [2d 9c] (high card Nine)
[8d As] UTG (M=66.22; F) Already 910: Raises 780, shows [8h 3d] (Lost with two pair, Nines and Deuces)

-----Hand 3-----
Hero's M = 66.22
Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: jenti74 (1435 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: rushcrusher (2365 in chips)
Seat 3: fgump57 (1225 in chips)
Seat 5: Eastes (2475 in chips)
Seat 6: Already 910 (6595 in chips)
Seat 7: BILL5353 (3335 in chips)
Seat 8: ManoloHH (1460 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: Hero (2980 in chips)
ManoloHH: posts small blind 15
Hero: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ac Kc]
jenti74: folds
rushcrusher: folds
fgump57: folds
Eastes: folds
Already 910: raises 6565 to 6595 and is all-in
BILL5353: folds
ManoloHH: folds
Hero: calls 2950 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ad Qd Qs]
*** TURN *** [Ad Qd Qs] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [Ad Qd Qs 4d] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: shows [Ac Kc] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
Already 910: shows [Qc 6h] (a full house, Queens full of Sixes)
Already 910 collected 5975 from pot

Against the range of cards he had been playing I wanted to get him AI ASAP and was pleased when he pushed. Pity about the flop though.


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[bigspenda73]

I'd be interested the hear opinions here, but I'd fold this without much thought, the best you'll be is 3:1 to stay alive, you're in good chip position and you can afford to take this hand off. You got it in as a 2:1 favorite, but you're still going to bust 1 out of 3 times, not worth it IMO.

[Sprayed]

With regards to the last hand, if you know villain to be pushing very wide, AK is an easy call for me. Never turn down an edge.

[Deanglow]

Easy call on the last hand. We aren't good enough to give up these significant edges.

[bigspenda73]

I was thinking this was a single table sng, being a 45man I call here to build a stack.

[canuck]

dont min raise pre flop lol

[Hawk]

umm...on the hand in question he was in the BB, he never min-raised.

If it was me, I'd call AI with that hand against a player like that, but I tend to suck in tourney's of any size...

[taipan168]

All seems fine, minraise on Hand 1 is terrible though because you're likely to end up with 5 callers which is a disaster for KK. Make it at least 80 to go, at a $1.10 tourney 100 is better.

Hand 3 call is fine.

[will641]

for the love of god make a real raise preflop with KK. and also i would make a raise pre with KJ on the cutoff.