Online Poker Forum - Maniac's at the Microstakes?

LitUp43 · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:32 pm Post subject: Maniac's at the Microstakes?

So the past couple nights i've been playing at the microstakes hi lo tables, and I see a couple of nuts raising and re-raising the pot pre-flop with garbage and following through with it on the flop. Two nights ago, I was lucky enough to catch the nuts on some flops and stack them, but last night I couldn't get a hand worth 2 cents on either table I played, and when I would, I'd catch a monster draw OTF and miss every time. Even after the two maniacs went busto, I still wasn't catching much worth playing, so I ended up switching to Hi, caught a couple monster hands and got my buy-in's back.

My question is, how do you counteract this type of play when players are committing 1/2 a buy-in on one hand? I mean I looked at the avg pot it was up to $2.20 at .01/.02. I'm not a fan of playing the lottery unless I know I'm putting it in there w/ the best hand like AAK2 or AA2X ds. Thoughts, comments?

cardfish2 · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:40 pm Post subject:

Pretty easy to beat really. Wait for a hand that beats that range and get all the chips in. Variance will be high but play enough and you will win.

LitUp43 · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject:

Most definitely...I did that quite a few times, ended up losing every time. I played for 2 hrs and decided enough was enough, I'll try another table and come back another night. Thanks though, from your post I was playing it right, just wasn't coming out on the right end. Next time though, definitely!

aarosakura · Royal Flush Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 714

i like to play flops,and let them get their money in silly with a naked flush draw or 2 pair and no low draw.

Freerolling is what you want to be aiming for,if you can freeroll every hand you play,you'll end up winning. Which obviously means play scooping hands,see flops and don't get too much in pre.

cardfish2 · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

aarosakura · Royal Flush Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 714

francois8 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Maniac's at the Microstakes?

OP, play 2 tables or more if you can, at a time and just play tight as all hell. It will cost you a couple dimes to sit through like 6 orbits of the table, so you can wait for your spot since you'll be way ahead of their ranges when you do play a hand.

People who bet every hand blindly are challenging to play against mentally due to the variance, but very profitable in the long run. True, regardless of game. I'll let someone who knows more about PLO8 to tell you which hands to play.

Flying_Kiwi · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject:

I good start would be learning Omaha.

LitUp43 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject:

Flying_Kiwi · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

I was just meaning that Omaha is a high variance game and even really strong hands are only marginally ahead PF.

LitUp43 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:53 pm Post subject:

Oh, absolutely. I should edit my first post as I am definitely a fan of getting AI or most of it w/ monster draws. NLNFD for example, that's just a no brainer, or wrap around 22 way SDFD combinations, it's going in if the pot is big enough. I usually pick those spots to make a pot bet, or check raise if it's multi way that way I'm sure to get the most value when I hit my draw, and I'd say most of the time I do.

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