Dealing with a maniac / bully / kamakaze / nutcase

This guy sat down and started running over the table, raising the minimum preflop every hand, and betting the size of the pot literally every round and literally every hand. He'd usually fold when bet to before he had a chance to bet, but if not, he'd keep making huge bets until he took a pot down.

Finally I decided to stand up for the table. These are 3 consecutive hands.

(If you're wondering about my hand selection here, with this guy at the table, nearly every hand had implied odds of calling preflop. If you hit, he'd pay you off big. And everyone else was just folding to him over and over again.)

------HAND 10------
Game #65220334: Texas Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2004/07/25 - 09:07:22 (EST)
Table "Thornton" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: Craig021 ($111 in chips)
Seat 2: mike1123 ($164.25 in chips)
Seat 3: Priti2 ($167.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Smeagol1 ($259.50 in chips)
Seat 5: asso2 ($21 in chips)
Seat 6: Seen123 ($204.75 in chips)
mike1123: posts small blind $1
Priti2: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to mike1123 :Kc:
Smeagol1: raises to $4
asso2: folds
Seen123: folds
Craig021: calls $4
mike1123: calls $3
Priti2: calls $2
----- FLOP ----- :Jd:
mike1123: checks
Priti2: bets $12
Smeagol1: folds
Craig021: calls $12
mike1123: calls $12
----- TURN ----- :Jd: :Jc:
mike1123: checks
Priti2: bets $32
Craig021: folds
mike1123: calls $32
----- RIVER ----- :Jd: :Jc:
mike1123: bets $116.25 and is all-in
Priti2: folds
Returned uncalled bets $116.25 to mike1123
----- SHOW DOWN -----
mike1123: shows :Kc: (Two Pairs, Jacks and Fives, King high)
mike1123 collected $113 from Main pot

------HAND 11------
Game #65221644: Texas Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2004/07/25 - 09:09:06 (EST)
Table "Thornton" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: Craig021 ($95 in chips)
Seat 2: mike1123 ($229.25 in chips)
Seat 3: Priti2 ($119.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Smeagol1 ($255.50 in chips)
Seat 5: asso2 ($21 in chips)
Seat 6: Seen123 ($204.75 in chips)
Priti2: posts small blind $1
Smeagol1: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to mike1123 :Tc:
asso2: folds
Seen123: folds
Craig021: folds
Craig021 sits out
mike1123: calls $2
Priti2: raises to $4
Smeagol1: calls $2
mike1123: calls $2
----- FLOP ----- :Td:
Priti2: bets $8
Smeagol1: folds
mike1123: calls $8
----- TURN ----- :Td:
Priti2: bets $12
mike1123: calls $12
----- RIVER ----- :Td:
Priti2: bets $12
mike1123: raises to $40
Priti2: calls $28
----- SHOW DOWN -----
mike1123: shows :Tc: (Two Pairs, Tens and Fives, Eight high)
Priti2: mucks hand
mike1123 collected $129 from Main pot


------HAND 12------
Game #65225004: Texas Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2004/07/25 - 09:10:45 (EST)
Table "Thornton" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: Craig021 sits out
Seat 2: mike1123 ($294.25 in chips)
Seat 3: Priti2 ($55.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Smeagol1 ($251.50 in chips)
Seat 5: asso2 ($21 in chips)
Seat 6: Seen123 ($204.75 in chips)
Smeagol1: posts small blind $1
asso2: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to mike1123 :Jh: :Tc:
Seen123: folds
mike1123: calls $2
Priti2: calls $2
Smeagol1: calls $1
asso2: checks
----- FLOP ----- :Td:
Smeagol1: checks
asso2: checks
mike1123: checks
Priti2: bets $8
Smeagol1: folds
asso2: folds
mike1123: calls $8
----- TURN ----- :Td:
mike1123: checks
Priti2: bets $45.50 and is all-in
mike1123: calls $45.50
----- RIVER ----- :Td:
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Priti2: shows :Ts: (Two Pairs, Queens and Tens, Nine high)
mike1123: shows :Jh: :Tc: (Two Pairs, Queens and Tens, Jack high)
mike1123 collected $112 from Main pot

Last night in a SnG I got very lucky with some cards and took out 2 players pretty early. There was 1 player that I did not like. He was the aggressive / maniac etc. I was hoping that we would not be the final 2. He was overly aggressive and I had to change my strategy severly to play with him. I was able to double up off of him earlier but he battled back and we went head to head.

This is the entire head-to-head battle between him and I, I'm not missing any hands.

*********** # 80 **************
PokerStars Game #567220258: Tournament #2159327, Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2004/07/25 - 02:29:52 (ET)
Table '2159327 1' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 4: Humphrind (7543 in chips)
Seat 8: uAllDieSlow (5957 in chips)
uAllDieSlow: posts small blind 100
Humphrind: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Humphrind [:Ad: :Jd:]
uAllDieSlow: raises 200 to 400
Humphrind: raises 600 to 1000
uAllDieSlow: raises 4957 to 5957 and is all-in
Humphrind: calls 4957
*** FLOP *** [ :Jh:]
*** TURN *** [ :Jh:] []
*** RIVER *** [ :Jh: ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Humphrind: shows [:Ad: :Jd:] (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
uAllDieSlow: shows [ :Kd:] (a pair of Sixes)
Humphrind collected 11914 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11914 | Rake 0
Board [5h 6s Jh 6d 8h]
Seat 4: Humphrind (big blind) showed [Ad Jd] and won (11914) with two pair, Jacks and Sixes
Seat 8: uAllDieSlow (button) (small blind) showed [7h Kd] and lost with a pair of Sixes

I guess I didn't really have to worry about him. He self-imploded.

Oh well, maybe he learned his lesson.

in SNG's, i like having one of these around.

in a 9 person SNG the the other night, maniac-boy cleared out 5 players bringing it down to 4 players. up to that point, i'd played one hand (and doubled up) and then just stayed out of the way. because of maniac boy, it's down to 4 and the blinds are still low. at this point, us 3 non-maniacs attacked his giant stack, and within ten minutes, he was out, and didn't hit the money.

we all commented how nice it was for him to clear the field for us.