What is our position relative to teh maniac? Position dictates strategy here imo.

Directly across the table from him. Actually 9-handed so 3 on one side, 4 on the other. Forget which one of us had the slight 1 seat advantage.

Screw up somewhere? He's screwing up every hand! It's not like he's playing well. Short stacks, medium stacks, and even big stacks are calling. And he's getting in as a big dog most the time. But he's winning. That's the problem.

He's been called 13x with a record of 8-5 so far. Most of those times he's been a dog of 2 to 1 or better including a couple where he's gotten in preflop under 20% and won. He's not going away, the RNG isn't doing us any favors today.

So with blinds 25/50 and 6100 as stated in original post, he has 11K and is the tourny chip leader with 30-something left. We started with 60-something. Top 6 get seats. 2 more get paid a smaller cash amount. I'm somewhere between 5th and 10th in chips now.

Only 1 other player at the table has over 3K (directly to my left - yuck - with 6500). Maniac open-shoves UTG. We have [Qs] 2 off the button.