Maniacs

So I saw this guy sitting at a 30/60 game with $300 bucks. I like to play heads up and I don't really look at the stakes, but how much that person has. So I sat down with $600 and played this guy heads up for about 10 hands. I play against short stacks well in Limit because I play aggresively, but I try to keep the pot small unless I flop something. I find this to be an effective strategy because the short stacks are protecting their chips and I can steal blinds/flops fairly effectively and they play ABC poker so it's easy to fold.

Anyways, this guy sits to my left with about $2200 and proceeded to be a maniac. Here's an example hand:

Full Tilt Poker
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $30/$60
3 players
Converter


Pre-flop: (3 players) Hero is SB with :3h :2h
Button folds, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero calls.

Flop: :2d :3s :5h (6SB, 2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero calls.

Turn: :8c (6BB, 2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero Caps, BB calls.

River: :5d (14BB, 2 players)
Hero bets, BB calls.

Results:
Final pot: 16BB
Hero showed 3h 2h
BB showed 3d 9h

Yeah, this was a poor river bet, but I didn't really think about it before I fired. This guy was too juicy to pass up. So I put a few thousand down and proceeded to play. This guy was betting every thing like the above hand. I called down with a QJ and K6 and won both hands after he was firing every chance he got. After being down about $1000, I booked a nice $800 win before calling it a night.

On the flip side, I posted my first losing session in 2 weeks. As odds as it sounds, I am happy about it because I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop for sometime. It was a $1000 losing session at 15/30 short handed. I did do some stupid things and that loss should've been $900, but I started tilting before I stopped.

Just goes to show y'all, poker isn't all rosey.