VIDEO DISCUSSION: mojo6911 1 - Mojo gets destroyed again....

[Trikkur]

**THIS THREAD IS FOR DISCUSSION OF mojo6911 1 - Mojo gets destroyed again....**

I get into some interesting spots and make some good reads. Very interesting hand at the end that I lose. I have been in a huge downswing, so any help/comments is greatly appreciated.

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[mojo6911]

Any comments are 100% welcome.

[speedlingz]

ill watch this later on ill report back to u

[DRybes]

Someone else would be better qualified to critique this video, but I wanted to mention a few things.

- Turn off your sound effects. If you must leave them on, at least get rid of the applause. That's exactly the kind of circus-sideshow results-oriented feature you don't need playing during a game of poker, regardless of how well you are able to focus on decisions over results. Just based on your tone of voice and reaction to events in this video, I know getting rid of the applause will help you personally.

- (Villain-dependent) Don't shove over a 4b preflop with JJ at 20NL... particularly if your roll is approaching an uncomfortable level, there will be far better spots to stack off. (which leads me into

- I feel in this video you're having trouble deciding on whether or not to change up your normal game to reduce variance for a while... either that, or you're having trouble deciding what changes to make. I could easily be wrong, but I felt that you passed on a few situations you thought were more marginal than they were (QJ vs shortie rings a bell).

- You made some good steals, but you seem a little over-focused on collecting and hunting for reads (might just be because you had to comment on something). I do like that you made sure to try and confirm some of your reads, and understand they are not necessarily reliable. Assigning ranges is far more important and useful than assuming someone who limps 89o in the cutoff probably has mid connectors next time he's the cutoff and limps (the very next orbit). What you should see in that situation is that the guy is willing to limp a wide range in the cutoff. You end up exploiting your reads correctly, generally, but I think you also generally assign too narrow of a range to some of the less-skilled players during a hand you're involved in.

- You drop abominable timing tells. When you've decided to give up, you almost always insta-check. Even a donk reads it correctly as "go ahead and bet, i'll fold now". Evenly time moves you tend to do too quickly... I find that at lower limits, taking longer to make a decision almost universally commands a higher level of credit/respect from villains.

[SeP121]

mojo I dont usually comment but ill do it for you because you play 20nl and asked for some help in that other thread.


6:30 - you raise q9o from the cutoff. should not have q9o anywhere close to your cutoff range... dont raise marginal hands like that even when folded to IMO at least not at our limit.

7:55 - you ask should you be cbetting that flop, no. its completely fine to c/f on those kinds of boards where your hand cant be destroyed with not much room to improve except for top pair.

9-9:30 - "i dont want to be calling and playing for short stack" with qj on the button. up to you on this one, but i will flat a weak raise of 3x bb against him to see a flop. afterward you say with aj "if he raises i will probably put him all in" bad move considering you dont have button position anymore and AJo is not the strongest hand...

11:20 - you dont call a 3bet pre w/ 66. with 2 players in the hand, i will always be calling a low amount (1.6 more to you.. reasonable. cant give you an exact range have to feel it out)

15:00 - you iso w/ K5s on the button... def dont recommend it.

16:35 - weak cbet. your 1.20 into a $2 pot showed weakness

18:28 - k10o utg.. toss it preflop. your cbet was weak here too.

21:40 - its fine you protected your hand against the straight draw but you can usually assume they arent repping 23 or 78 when they are the raisers. can definitely call and take it away on the turn but your play was fine. just my 2 cents on value.

24:40 - you should have cbet with your jacks. she checked to you, if she has an ace she will call or raise you on the spot and that turns her hand face up. cbet next time. you wouldnt have to get yourself into the sticky river spot next time. btw a lot of players pull the line c/c with a draw then donking full pot on missed draws so keep that in mind.

last play of the video.. very marginal but my opinion: you should NOT be getting it in with jacks deep PF. you have a maniac read on him, but jacks are not a strong enough hand to be going in preflop. your 3bet was fine, but a flat would have been more appropriate. even though flop was a blank it would have been a better play.

overall comment on button play: if you are getting played back at a lot and not beating the limit, tighten your button range a bit. quit playing K8o from the button etc.

[mojo6911]

Thanks a lot guys! I really do appreciate it.

[given1982]

You ask if you should be cbetting 852 rainbow in position. I think you definitely should. Checking back air on 856 two-tone is fine, but 852r is a pretty dry flop.

I think your attitude may be your biggest leak: complaining about losing a buyin on a preflop all-in coinflip at the beginning of your session, which is superstandard; saying that you "always" lose flips; snapsaying "I'm done with this hand" whenever your cbet is called and you have less than top pair, instead of trying to put villain on a flop-calling range and come up with the most profitable line; saying that you knew that villain was going to fold to your flop raise when you flopped a set; assuming that it was an A and not even considering the possibility that it was a busted flush draw when villain pot donked the river on As3s7h2h9d after playing passive on the flop and turn; your reaction to the last hand.

The last hand was a really gross spot. You had seen him calling down really light and making a lot of open raises, but he had only ever gotten it in preflop with KK. The 3bet is mandatory, and while folding to the 4bet might have been the right play, I definitely wouldn't have done it in game.

[AlaskaForever]

I think your biggest leak is that you are looking action, but cant get enough, take 4 tables minimum, then you dont have to raise KTo middle pos. Cbet 80-90% pot. Nice video.

[dansiek]

Yeah, 4 tables, tighten your ranges a little and as Trikkur says many times, if you aren't sure press fold.

[mojo6911]

Originally Posted by AlaskaForever

I think your biggest leak is that you are looking action, but cant get enough, take 4 tables minimum, then you dont have to raise KTo middle pos. Cbet 80-90% pot. Nice video.

If I cbet 90%, don't I have to take it down almost 75% of the time to profit.