So last night, I participate in Planet Poker's "our site sucks but we want you back anyway" giveaway tournament and land in the money (not big money, but i cashed anyway).

So... hating the site's interface and not caring much at all about their free money, I sat down at a $5 max buyin NL hold'em table and played maniac mode.

Lost my first buy-in in less than a round of the button.

Lost my second buy-in less than a round later.

Then... over the course of 2-3 hours, I shot up to $45. If it wasn't for clicking the wrong button twice, it could've been $60.

I played every hand, except those where my hand absolutely sucked and I had to pay more than 25 cents to see the flop. If the flop was cheap, I was in. I think I folded like 10 hands pre-flop.

I bet the pot if I got even the tiniest piece of the flop, including 4 to a flush or OESD, bottom pair, whatever. If I had better than high card (or even Ace high sometimes), I bet the pot. If someone raised me, or bet a pot-sized bet at me, I'd tighten up just a hair, but if I felt good about it, I pushed in.

People just kept calling and calling and pushing in against me.

I had two people push in moderate stacks (about $10) where I said, "I don't really want to play on this site any more" and called with Ace high. I... won. WTF did TWO people push with? (Planet sux - they don't show hands on all-ins.)

Unfortunately, Planet Poker doesn't seem very hand-history friendly so I can't really evaluate my play with PT. I know I played like a complete moron; that's not the question...

I'm really posting here to ask... what happened? Did playing like a maniac really generate so much action that people will call raises with anything at all, even jack high?

Is this typical for this level of play?

Probably something like JTs and KQs.

Playing like a total maniac can definitely win you some money... LOTS of times when I'm at my regular B&Ms, I see lots of maniacs and crazy people w/ $1000 stacks in a $100 buyin SNG...

But, 3 or 4 hours later, they'll be broke, and maybe $300 into their own pockets... Pushing anything is gonna come out like a rollercoaster, and you happen to get out before the big drop...