How to play against maniac player

Low stake have many many fish and newbie amatur player.
They have many line bet so weird like open 5bb any hand or always bet 100% pot 3 barrel
what strategy u choose to play with them if u don't want to roll to much to protect your bank roll?
1. Just call and play post flop
2. 3-bet to protect hand and narrow their trash range
3. wait the premium hand then flip with them ( sometime software make u lose trash hand and u tilt)

Never try to steal from a maniac. With that said, trap with your best hands, the chances of bad beat is the same going allin preflop or playing it through the streets.

Never bluff against them, and try to catch also with some marginal connected (and mainly flushed) hands.

Other than that, you will be throwing away chips, as they will always act as they've got something in the flop and whenever you call they will have it hahaha

The reality is that there is no magic formula to play against this type of player, mine is to wait until you have good cards in your hand. The thing is that you can lose too many chips along the way waiting for GOOD CARDS which don't always arrive.

The things I think about when facing a really aggressive player is paying attention to any of his/her hands that get showndown. Are they doing this for thin value or are they just blasting away with pure bluffs.
When we get a good understanding of this then we can make a plan against them.
We can fold a little bit more of our hands that can’t improve. We can check raise more against them when we have a vulnerable hand or as a bluff ourselves if we think they are over bluffing. We can trap trap trap when they bluff into us. Just keep calling and giving them the rope. And finally we can bluff catch more. The last one is the hard one but if we do it every once in a while and don’t get too carried away it can work out really good.
Good luck!

At very low stakes, where most of the pool is new players and/or relatively bad recreational players - you'll face many maniac players and the strategy is usually quite simple: never try to bluff them (I like to hero call sometimes even when I miss everything with hands like AK * A high, as they can have any2- it's worth calling if the price isn't too high...), bet for value more often especially on the river - even increasing the % of your usual bet.. in rest - you just wait for very good starting hands and/or good spots (like for example set mining or seeing some chip flops with suited connected hands), to hopefully pick-up the 'free' chips/money 💲💰💸

I don't usually go head-to-head with them; I wait for someone else to take them out. It's hard to take them on even with premium cards, because with their style of play, they can win with any hand.

Against a maniac player, patience is your biggest weapon. Don’t try to out-bluff them — tighten your range, let them overplay weak hands, and value bet strong hands aggressively. Maniacs create chaos, but they also donate chips when you stay disciplined.