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Ok, so here I was last night, sitting at my beloved computer when luck actually hit me for the first time. I sat down at a party .50/1.00 table, that had the perfect set up of players. 8 weak/tights, and, sitting directly to my right, the single loosest maniac I have ever seen in my life. The maniac capped every street, with any holding, every single hand. Our average pot was $15. He literally never folded, and kept rebuying when he got down to $25 up to 50. The rest of the players were too dumb to realize that I was raising to isolate, and most folded every time. The end result was, that I could pick any two cards and raise them with a ~15% I would be called from EP, and even less if some had already folded, and disconnect at any time that I would see fit if my cards started to look bad against a random hand. I was raising with any suited ace, broadway connectors, or pocket pair from early position, the above plus A8+ and any 2 broadways from MP, and any ace, any suited king/queen plus the above from LP. I called MP/LP with suited connectors/high gappers.

So my question is, what's the perfect range of hands against a player who only has a raise button? Do I only play the top 49% of hands? Where does that end?


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connectors and suites lose power in such a game situation, as most of the time there will be 2 players only in the pot: u and the maniac
highcards gain value


But suited connectors get so much better implied odds. If you flop 2pair or better, its 100% that you're getting paidoff, and big. a 2sb investment yields 10bb of his money. If you read ToP, it preaches that suited connectors gain value in loose games.


yeah, suites and connectors rock in loose games, mass players regularly seeing the flop

but at this table there were 8 tights + maniac, so most of the time there will be only u and the maniac seeing the flop ...