The Limp, Flop Floating Maniac

I finally had a good session this morning. I was up 5 buy-ins, but that doesn’t get me in green yet. It seems this damn poker is hard for me. I read an article on the CR Forums on how to play a maniac. Not the typical maniac that play 35/29/7, but the new weak maniac who plays 73/6/1. This guy is too much as he just gets under the skin. I have run into a couple of these players in my late night session. I am playing on FTP so I really don’t know where they are from. In a nutshell, the article speaks to the limp in, and flop floating that most of these players employee. It seems I have a strong understanding of this approach and the article is very well presented. So here I am with one of these guys to my right. His stats are 71/25/1.80. So I am in a good position with the maniac. The article indicates that you play your strong hands very strong as these maniacs will call with any 2. The article indicates it is the turn which establishes the true strength of their hands. The article went on to say that you should take your strong hands to the river for a showdown. Well I am ready to employee this newly discovered strategy. I catch AKs in the BB and re-raise the maniac who is in the SB. Well one stack later his AA has me beaten. Not 10 minutes later the same event, however I have JJ and lose my second stack to his KK. What really sent me to Tiltsville was my comment in the chat box of, “The JJ is the biggest pair I have seen in 2 hours”. Well the villain response is, “I know how you feel”. I mean WTF! You catch AA and KK and you know how I feel! To me there is no more disrespect then a condescending asshole. So I was down 4 buy-ins, but rallied back to finish down 1. In the morning session, before I went to the pen, I won a huge pot when my AA stood up to a all-in AQ and a all-in QQ. Poker is a really easy game if you catch the cards. Today I caught cards! I flopped 2 boats, made 2 nut straights, one nut flush and quad 5’s. 4 of these hand I was able to get it all-in. I did take one bad beat for a stack when my AK vs. AQ on a A69 rainbow board when the villain spike a Q on the river. What was funny about that hand is the way the villain praised himself, right before he ran off. The old hit and run trick, so common online. POKER!