When I first started playing over 15 years ago the vast majority of players fell into these types. Today, the player pool is much better, but you still see LOTS of these players.

Would love to see a hand analysis from one of Rampage’s slightly more maniacal sessions. As much as I like Rampage, I’d also love to see in realtime how someone can extract maximum value from a player who is throwing huge amounts of aggression out in sometimes questionable spots.

This video is short, to the point and perfect warmup for pre low stakes cash games . This is gold!

Excellent vlog, sir! ID'ing these player types (with your counsel) has vastly improved my game. I think putting a book or 3 of yours will be on my birthday wish list! Green skies ahead!😎🍀🎶

Great video. I run into so many of these maniacs and struggle to deal with them at times, especially when I end up with a couple at the one table. Generally use a similar strategy, tighten right down and remove the bluffs from my 3bet range. Check call them down but by time it hits the river I struggle to call a shove with middle holdings. Gotta work on it!

Thanks Jonathan this is really amazingggg and helps me clear my mind

Great video! Thanks!

Fabulous advice and knowledge as always, Jon!!!

As always, great information. Thank you Jonathan!

Thankyou Jonathan should we be checking back turn the majority of the time with top pair 3+ way as pre flop raiser and c bet flop two callers on a draw heavy board

What does "3 bet LINEAR ranges" mean, please? Thanks. (The linear part)

I have always struggled vs the players who never fold no matter what. Mostly because they tend to run extremely lucky vs me. For instance. 5 weeks ago. A guy setting to my direct left would NOT fold anything pre flop no matter how much you bet. So the logical solution is to just raise bigger PF and print cash right???? Nope. After he sucked out on me twice once when I had JJ on a 964 rainbow flop. He called with 52 pf and rivered a 3. The other I had TT and he called with A4h. I flopped top set and got my money in on a board with 1 heart. He got runner runner to flush. So I reloaded for a 3rd bullet. I got KK and raised to $30 pf in a 1/2 game. He called. Flop was J52 two clubs. I fire a pot sized bet and he called. Turn was 9h and I had my mind made up that I was just going all in if a safe turn card came. 9h qualified in my book. I jam and he calls with J6o and catches a J on the river. These players like this just run good vs me and its extremely frustrating because these are the type of players most poker players dream about facing. But I just cant freaking beat them. Time after time after time I lose to these guys.

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thanks coach ajust is the key

Thank you for another great video!

I’d like to see a video on seat selection. Ie, which players you want to try to get seated to the left of, which ones you don’t mind having to your left, etc.

Thanks JL.

Great info

For the maniac scenario, what would you do if the action was maniac early position limp preflop, hero in MP with QQ raise to 4bb , folds to maniac who calls. Flop is AT5, maniac jams like 25bb into a pot of like 10bb, would you call off with QQ against maniac? I was in this scenario in WSOP before and I folded my QQ, but I was thinking it may have been worth a call since he was a maniac.

Also great to watch this and see it from the other perspective of how you're being exploited potentially.

Jonathan, I am winning 45bb/100 in a 1/2 NL game that is 500 max and bomb pots. This sample size is 10k hands. I know this a phenomenal win rate, and I am super pumped about it. I know that a win rate like this is almost unheard of, and I do think its mostly a testament to how bad the players I am playing against are. What I am asking is 10k enough hands to think i can actually sustain a 30+bb/100 win rate long term? Or is there a number you have as a rule of thumb, thats larger, say 30k?

Stolem from the movie 21, "Always account for variable change." So, the various player types you run into, but also the adjustments they make to the game, as well as your adjustments to the game.

I’m pretty weak tight lol but it’s been profitable for over 20 years now. People don’t fold AJ or KQ when I 3b. I pay very close attention my position too, very rarely involved OOP.

Maniacs felt me more often than not. It chalks up to variance as I’ll be like 60-80% favored to win but it’s for my whole stack as I was waiting for the opportunity to go all in against them then they’ll bink on the river or turn invariably. You can’t wrestle pigs without getting in the mud is my new motto with that

Didn't know Murr from impractical Jokers play poker

Listening to your maniacal description. It’s me…

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you and carrot man should work togehther

Its not easy to identify player types; players in and out, table distractions and chaotic conditions It seems stack size, player age and time at the table are indications, but again embrace the variance. Many players are capable some deception within their supposed type.

I guess im the maniac

The section on exploiting maniacs was pretty bad and incomplete IMO. Waiting for the nuts is the way to lose against LAGs. Read "Playing the player" by Ed Miller for a much better treatment of this topic. The key is that you need to be bluffing a lot and taking down medium sized pots against these players because their ranges are so wide. It's not just about calling down with value.

My problem is I am maniacal I get so much enjoyment out of bluffing a pot lol. I have to stop 😂