Take Small Edges

I'm at the point where I don't mind a little variance in my bankroll at 25NL. As a result, I've been trying to find more exploitable edges at the table. One such edge is dealing with the spewy shortstack. I've been sticking these guys in pretty lightly, and while immediate results may not be great, I think this should show a profit in the long run.

In other news, I've dropped 7 buy-ins at 50NL after some poor play and an even worse run of cards. I'm back at 25NL for the next couple days to make up the losses and to rework some stuff, namely my play out of the blinds which gets a bit spewy at times, and my out of position play postflop, which is pretty weak.

I've also qualified for the 150k on Saturday on my first shot (go go reward point donkaments) after plowing through 6 not-very-good-almost-terrible players. Hopefully I can finally score a decent MTT cash this weekend!

Here are a couple hands where I stick spewy shorties in with light holdings:

Hand 1: 25NL

Relevant Stacks:
Seat 4 - DLISK ($6.05 in chips)
Seat 1 - SIMPLESTYLE ($58.05 in chips)

Seat #3 is the dealer
DLISK - Posts small blind $0.10
SEANDDALY - Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to SIMPLESTYLE [ ]
SEACOD - Calls $0.25
SIMPLESTYLE - Raises $1.25 to $1.25
BARKANATOR - Folds
HUNGRY4POTS - Calls $1.25
DLISK - All-In(Raise) $5.95 to $6.05
SEANDDALY - Folds
SEACOD - Folds
SIMPLESTYLE - Calls $4.80
HUNGRY4POTS - Folds

Flop:
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Turn:
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River:
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Showdown:
SIMPLESTYLE - Shows [ ] (One pair, sixes)
DLISK - Shows [ ] (One pair, kings)
DLISK Collects $13.20 from main pot
Classic race situation. We're winning this 54.817% of the time.

Hand 2: 25NL

Relevant Stacks:
Seat 1 - SIMPLESTYLE ($51.40 in chips)
Seat 5 - SEANDDALY ($12.31 in chips)

SIMPLESTYLE - Posts small blind $0.10
BARKANATOR - Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to SIMPLESTYLE [ ]
HUNGRY4POTS - Folds
SEANDDALY - Raises $2 to $2
SEACOD - Folds
SIMPLESTYLE - All-In(Raise) $51.30 to $51.40
BARKANATOR - Folds
SEANDDALY - All-In $10.31
SIMPLESTYLE - returned ($39.09) : not called

Flop:
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Turn:
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River:
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Showdown:
SIMPLESTYLE - Shows [ ] (One pair, sevens)
SEANDDALY - Shows [
SEANDDALY Collects $23.67 from main pot ] (One pair, aces)

Only a 51.835% favorite here, but the guy had been making these $2 raises a bit too frequently for them to be representing any real strength.