THISPLAYISBAD- PLO cash game journey

Hello all,

My Sn on GG is THISPLAYISBAD and I am starting this thread to document my journey of moving through the ranks of PLO. I transitioned from NL to PLO almost 2 years ago and started from micro stakes and am now currently playing 200 and 500. Before transitioning, I had never had any coaching or studied poker at all apart from watching youtube videos; I was very much a tough fish, finding moderate success in low and midstakes NL games. When transitioning to PLO, I decided to take it seriously and find out how good I can really get at poker so I enrolled in a CFP and had some private coaching on the side as well. About 8 months ago I had a 500K hand sample of good results at 200 and decided to then quit my job and pursue poker full time. I have found the decision to be a good one but also quite isolating as I have zero friends who take poker seriously and am very much alone in my endeavors as a new "professional" player so i am hoping that making this thread will open some doors in terms of networking and making new poker colleagues/friends. I also believe the thread will simply be tons of fun as I plan on sharing results and the ups and downs for you all to enjoy. Some short term goals:

- Finding more life balance and being more disciplined with my schedule. (I tend to be extremely obsessive about the game and struggle to take breaks and enjoy life as much as I should)
- Being kinder to myself (I am a perfectionist by nature and am very hard on myself when making mistakes at the tables. If I look up a hand in solver and solver tells me my play is even slightly negative EV I obsess about the spot and focus on never making that mistake again and have a very negative inner monologue with myself. I realize this way of thinking is unhealthy and I am actively working on correcting the thought process)
- Lowering the amount of tables I play and focus on playing as well as possible every session. (I have an issue with wanting to plow through hands and variance and will overload myself with to many tables, especially if they are good ones. I can play well with a lot of tables but it inevitably always causes a misclick or suboptimal play and a 50 BB blunder occurs. My goal is to limit my tables to a maximum of 6 and simply play longer hours to get volume in (30-40) hours a week.
- Finish reading "The Mental Game of Poker" by Jared Tendler. I am about half way through it and so far I have really enjoyed it and feels like it has helped me with my mental games.

My goal with poker is to simply be the best I can be, I am highly competitive in nature and foresee myself not stopping until I reach the top OR the top of my ability. I am 36 years old and recently married so i do have pressure on me to make this work which is scary but I also think it is a massive advantage in many ways.

There are no rules for this thread and please feel free to ask me anything and I will answer all questions I am comfortable answering. I will try to make updates with graphs once a week at minimum.