I say "tells" because they're not real tells more like information.

So i'm playing this .5/1 game at my local casino min 20 buy in max 100 people tend to be droolers but is usually a very friendly fun game to play with good banter etc. I say this because usually my aggressive style works well and villians are poor to adjust.

it's not wholly relevant but i'm just trying to set the scene.

So this player comes to the table, gets ~2k out of his pocket and shouts to the floor "chips". he then says what's the max and is told it's $100 and says "that's rubbish man is there anything bigger" player seems to be a hs gambler. first hand he calls a raised pot in mp with 96o binks a 9 on the turn and declares "it's just not enough money to make me ever want to fold" as in, the stakes are too low. and promptly calls with his 2nd pair. In a pot vs me he raises the turn by asking how much I have and before i finish counting says "whatever man" and lumps about 8-10 5$ chips in not enough to put me all in but pretty close.

now my problem is what adjustments should I make making when faced with an opponent like this who is a gambler maniac but we have little no reads on how he plays.

Cheers!

I feel like this thread comes up once a week

Just play tighter, dont try to bluff him, and value the **** out of him with a wider value range

No matter how high stakes he plays, no body likes to lose... If they want u to call, they'll do like he did

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There are just too many kinds of maniacs to have any single answer. You need to pay attention to how much and when he is betting and what hands he shows down. Some maniacs are hyper aggressive and letting them bet into you when you have TPTK+ is best, other are stationary and you need to bet into them when you have value. Some bet aggressively preflop, other like to see lots of flops with ATC. I was playing with one last night who had an interesting profile of playing super loose/passive/stationary preflop and on flop but liked to take it away with big turn/river bets.

The general rule though is that the maniac is not going to fold much or to stop betting often, so don't call flop bets with marginal hands, don't c-bet much (if at all) and be ready to play for entire stack with hands weaker then usual. Against the most maniac, plan on stacking off with TPTK+ no matter what board looks like. If you maniac is a limper preflop then try to see a lot of flop cheaply, if they are aggressive preflop then wait for good hands and reraise them.

What more do you want? The read is that at all points he'll have a really wide range. That is easy to play against. Plough money into the pot when you're ahead of it.

Cheers for responses. I guess I should go into more detail.

Should I be moving more hands from my calling range into my 3betting range and hands from my folding range into my calling range or keeping my 3betting range fairly linear and widening my calling range (espesh in position) to allow maniac villian to barrell with a high frequency>

I have not come across this situation too often, but have seen players over adjust to a maniac (as you describe). As already stated in this thread - just play poker by adjusting the range you put him on. You will get reads on how he plays quickly enough because he will be involved in a lot of pots. Just keep in mind that there are other players at the table who will also be trying to adjust in different ways.