Maniac Alert

[RobS]

To rephrase the question...

So that you are most likely to go into the hand as favourite, what's your minimum calling hand if someone on your table is moving all-in for 80 dollars a pop on a 2/4 table with any Ace, Pair, or K-Q.

55+, A9s+, A-10o+

Though this doesn't take into account that another player yet to act may find a hand.

[ifm]

Facinating thread in that snoppy asks a question then answers it himself
Then defends his position vigorously......
I can see both sides here but as cash isn't really my game i am not sure who is right (if there is a right and wrong).
What i will say is that i have targetted a player like this in the past and the problem i had was that while i was calling HIM with weaker hands than i might otherwise have done i ended up being beaten by other players playing more premium hands than me
In effect i turned into a slightly stronger version of the maniac and i'm sure others on the table were posting new topics on poker forums entitled :-

2 maniacs on cash table, what hands should i be calling with!!!

[snoopy1239]

To rephrase the question...

So that you are most likely to go into the hand as favourite, what's your minimum calling hand if someone on your table is moving all-in for 80 dollars a pop on a 2/4 table with any Ace, Pair, or K-Q.

55+, A9s+, A-10o+

Though this doesn't take into account that another player yet to act may find a hand.

Cheers man, I assume this is done from a calculator or poker tool of some sort.

Pretty interesting, I was going for 8-8+. A-Ts+, A-Jo+

Not too far away, but I wasn't aware that I could call with a pair as low as fives.

ifm - There's always the danger that the maniac creates another maniac. I saw people calling with K-J, A-2, and even 7-3 off, probably just out of pure frustration that they weren't getting a piece of the pie.

When he was making these moves, I was determined not to become one of those people though, so I just stuck to calling with decent hands (although not as strong as normal) and made sure that there was no-one left to act behind me.

The disappointing thing was that I had to stop raising preflop with non-premium hands.

[RobS]

Poker Stove, useful tool!

[ariston]

I would more likely be the maniac than the caller