Hand from my B&M session last night - slow down?

[Three Outer]

Turning Stone Casino, upstate NY, $100 NL $1/$2 blinds:

I'm UTG with and raise to $10, MP calls, LP calls, blinds fold. MP is a maniac, playing every hand, calling raises with anything and everything, and pushing his whole stack in on any draw imaginable. He lost a buy-in within 10 minutes at the table, rebought, and had his stack over $300 before losing it all within the next hour. LP is new to the table but appears weak.

Flop ($33)
Do you bet this flop?

[Suhleafs]

For sure I would.

JT could be out there for the str8 draw, as well as somebody holding clubs.

Give them crappy odds to draw with a pot sized bet. Of course milk it a bit and delay when making your bet.

[iceman5]

I bet almost every flop when I raise preflop. When I have a monster, Im betting for sure. You cant win a big pot unless you make the pot big. I think I should trademark that phrase.

If you check, not only is the pot not going to be big, but there are a number of cards that could hit that will make you wish you bet the flop.

If you bet and they fold, they had nothing anyway

[kennyg]

I agree with Ice and Suhleaf wholeheartdly here. If you slow play the flop stays small and you're possibily giving a legit draw a free card.

[Three Outer]

Yeah, I bet out $25 and they both folded. I guess I had the worst case scenario running through my head... which was I bet, maniac calls, turn card is a bad one, I bet again, he comes over the top.

[Eaglesfan]

[Three Outer]

Weak, as usual. It's so close to Syracuse that college kids by the boatload drive over, get drunk on the way, and lose their wallets playing a game that they can't properly play sober. Have you played there often?

[Eaglesfan]

[Three Outer]