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Originally Posted by answer20
How transparent is your holding? Aggressive/maniac Players like to have the betting lead. Do you need to 'pot' PF to isolate or would something smaller do the same? How much wider 'could' you be with a smaller PF raise? It may not matter since some V don't pay attention to those details, so bigger is better.
Why wouldn't you go 'pot' on the Flop AP? Blocking a 6 and 9, two BD flush and AA. If not potting I go smaller to see if V shoves.
Personally against a maniac .. I just slow play everything and let them do all the betting. You pretty much know they are going to dump and at least you get to see the Flop before the pot is bloated. It's like AA in NL .. you win a small one or lose a big one when you tell the table you have AA by 3-4 betting. Without a very high VPiP yourself it becomes pretty easy to play against, so you need to be ready to ride the variance or play passively.
Against the rest of the table, yes .. pile in and make them know they are playing for stacks. But when 400bb deep I typically let the maniac hang themselves when I know I've got a decent grip on the hand. They don't fold! And unless you're into flipping for that many chips I like to see a Flop a little more under the radar. GL
The answer to that is that it isn't actually transparent, but would be transparent to this player. against them squeezing i would be 4betting quite a wide range including many hands that would have a straight or set here (AT87/875/985 ds, TT99-8877 ds etc). but after 30h they hadn't seen that so they don't know that and - i assume - would be putting me exclusively on AA in their thinking. As I said I had been cultivating a tight/solid image for this player with fewer opens/3bets and less flop CBetting.
I could see a reason for slowplaying pre but tbh this player will not fold to any 4bet and will call (as seen) stupidly wide on the flop and frequently donkshove turn, so it seemed like potting was the most profitable action with such good AA? If it were single-suited or much less connected I would have flatted for sure.
Regarding slowplaying, what do you think about checking flop to shove club, heart, A or 6 turns vs inevitable bluffs and evaluate on others? I reckon their range would be Much wider bluffing turns and rivers after seeing a check on the flop and also I doubt they would fold anything with a flush draw to a shove on the turn.