9 high a capping hand preflop and flop:

[emineric 0]

i actually beat X-W-A 2 nights ago at 50/100 and yet i couldn't beat a donk at 10/20 who consistently played this strong:Texas Hold'em $10-$20 (Real Money), #103,534,558 Table DumplinMastr's HE, 9 Feb 2006 3:51 AM ET ANTES/BLINDS DumplinMastr posts blind ($5), emineric posts blind ($10). PRE-FLOP DumplinMastr bets $15, emineric bets $20, DumplinMastr bets $20, emineric calls $10. FLOP [board cards 3C,AH,7C ] emineric bets $10, DumplinMastr bets $20, emineric bets $20, DumplinMastr bets $20, emineric calls $10. TURN [board cards 3C,AH,7C,10D ] emineric bets $20, DumplinMastr bets $40, emineric bets $40, DumplinMastr calls $20. RIVER [board cards 3C,AH,7C,10D,6S ] emineric bets $20, DumplinMastr bets $40, emineric calls $20. SHOWDOWN DumplinMastr shows [ 8D,9D ] emineric mucks cards [ AD,QC ] DumplinMastr wins $359. these maniacs give me more problems than the thinking players. fugly stuff man.

[emineric 0]

i find it hard to counter this all out strategy. i miss flop far too often. when i hit flop i lost far too often, mostly on the river to this particular opponent. if i called down with AK i'd lose. when he called down with Q5 his Q on river would win. anyone know how to successfully counter a maniac like this? he payed me off plenty when i hit my hands. i would check raise with any pair on flop and he'd call down with A high, K high and Q high. but he runner runnered me far too often and hit a ton of rivers. even with all this luck i still think i should have pulled out ahead. i consider myself a decent poker player, but i find it extremely hard to counter the perpetual 3 bettors, be it hu, shorthanded of ring game.

[AlphaOmega 0]

If you are getting unlucky, you will lose to a lot of different opponents. Maniacs will make the losses much tougher.Maniacs also tend to up the variance, coupled with the fact that you are playing HU as well.Can you post more hands of the HU play between you and X-W-A?

[emineric 0]

there is a semi interesting hand i posted of my match vs XWA at neverwin's ask dandruff section. let me seach PT and see if i can find a few more. he's not crazy like this guy, so not much will blow you away.

[jayboogie 0]

You have no choice but to get whacked pretty badly when a maniac goes on a rush, especially when your getting deault coolers. The only thing you can really do is ride it out and hope the momentum swings back in your favor or simply just quit for the session. There are some days where no matter what you do, you're going to lose and it's best to quit early on these days rather than later.As far as strategy against these players, forget bluffing them and value bet every chance you get. From what you describe though, it's just your opponent hitting river cards on you, which you can't do anything about. There's no strategy to combat a donk hitting on the river constantly, your just going to lose a lot of money and that's all there is to it.