Villain in this hand was a maniac (58/32/3.5) over 60 hands. He was taking down a load of hands without showing down and generally bullying the table. I would normally have left the table, but I was to his left and felt that sooner or later he was going to bluff off his stack.

I had only tangled with him in a few hands. I reraised his usual raise pre flop and he folded. In the others I called his raises and folded to his cbets.

My line against a "normal" opponent in this hand would have been to re-raise pre flop and then bet the flop if checked to me, or raise a flop bet depending on opponent.

Prima Poker skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
5 players
Converter

Hero (Button) ~ $47
Villain (CO) ~ $41


Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is Button with
UTG folds, CO raises to $2.89, Hero calls, SB calls, BB folds.

^^ I didn't want him to fold as in our previous hand and wanted him to bluff his stack when I actually had a hand.

Flop: ($9.17, 3 players)
SB checks, CO checks, Hero checks.

^^ I don't like the ace, but neither does he based on his check. I checked for similar reasons as above.

Turn: ($9.17, 3 players)
SB checks, CO bets $3.8, Hero calls, SB folds.

^^ He finally bets, I was concerned about the SB still in the hand, so I called. If SB had raised I was gone, but thought that calling would allow me to at least find out where SB was.

River: ($16.77, 2 players)
CO bets $14.65, Hero calls.

^^ I had committed myself to calling any reasonable bet on the river, I felt he makes this bet with a busted draw or lower pp.

Results:
Final pot: $46.07


Thoughts? Like I said this is normally not how I would play this hand, but villains previous play made me think differently. How would any of you guys have played that hand? Should I have adjusted this much v this type of player?

Effective stacks?

Against a guy like this I'd play it the same in position on the flop and turn. Sometimes, I'd raise the turn to get him to define his hand or control the showdown price, but with these stacks, if he's on a heart draw, he can shove you on any river if you raise the turn and you can't call. I like it, but folding anything more than $12 on the river isn't bad and that's probably right, but i can't honestly say I'd fold this river here against this person for anything around the pot.