How do you avoid this kind of nonsense in early stages of MTTs

jugglegeek

My instinct was telling me not to play this hand so early which is why I only called pre-flop. My plan was to get off unless I flopped the world. I hit a straight flush draw to I played on, hit the flush, trapped the guy by check-raising him all in thinking that once I've doubled up I can go make a cuppa and come back when the real poker starts. My thoughts were that I was ahead unless he had a suited Ace or King of Spades. He turned over As3d and of course the river makes his nut flush.

This is not just a bad beat story though. I want to know how, with maniacs like this should I be playing the first levels of MTTs. I've tried not playing at all and coming back after 3/4 hr and find that I am too short-stacked to make any impact. Only time I've won anything is when these type of situations happen early doors and I double up.

What should I do about maniacs basically?

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Bigfeet	Small blind		20.00	20.00	2660.00
batgog1	Big blind		40.00	60.00	2925.00
	Your hole cards	9 10
jugglegeek	Call		40.00	100.00	2725.00
JONNYTOM	Fold
andy645	Fold
Dottie1912	Call		40.00	140.00	5800.00
Bigfeet	Call		20.00	160.00	2640.00
batgog1	Check
Flop
		Q K 7
Bigfeet	Check
batgog1	Check
jugglegeek	Bet		80.00	240.00	2645.00
Dottie1912	Raise		200.00	440.00	5600.00
Bigfeet	Fold
batgog1	Fold
jugglegeek	Call		120.00	560.00	2525.00
Turn
		3
jugglegeek	Check
Dottie1912	Bet		320.00	880.00	5280.00
jugglegeek	All-in		2525.00	3405.00	0.00
Dottie1912	Call		2205.00	5610.00	3075.00
jugglegeek	Show	9 10
Dottie1912	Show	A 3
River
		8
Dottie1912	Win	Flush to the Ace	5610.00		8685.00