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Originally Posted by Amanaplan
Basically my view is the opposite of what ragequit wrote.
Good sign you're onto a sensible plan
To be fair if I were sat there looking at the table myself and can see the tight players have shut down because of the maniacs then I don't mind raising some crap hands that are nevertheless well ahead of the maniacs' preflop calling ranges. However, I'm not entirely sure this is the case from OP so I'm erring on the side of caution (yes, OK just folding-pre is more cautious).
The thing is in my game generally it is only the very nittiest players who are shutting down and waiting for big hands Vs the maniacs. Generally everyone's just loosening up in this scenario, all more than happy to gamble for stacks postflop with the really loose players. This means that I expect to get called by both the maniacs and the regs when I open A9o and go massively MW to the flop OOP with a RIO hand with little speculative upside.
This flop is a miracle and I think we're maybe becoming a bit results oriented (flop result if not showdown).