Day 1 (14th Nov.)

[x] Wattch 2 videos

Not a very bad start for the journal. Lost 1.5k but its +340 in BB. I think I'm doing OK at 200z(graph) and 400(graph) if Im really focus and playing my A-game. However there is some issue that cause me deviate from my A-game frequently.

1) Play too many tables.
I should know that putting lots of volume is not my main goal for now. 1k hands with A-game is better than 3k hands with B/C-game. Esp my goal is to improve and move up to HSPLO asap, so its def meaningless to autopilot lots of hands and try to become a RB player.

2) Having a unrealistic expectation of my short-term result
I found my mental game is becoming worse and worse since I back to the PLO world. I don't know why. I know the variance, I had the exp of running below EV 300bi in the past, I've read some mental game books. But everything happened in PLO tilted me so much recently. I guess thats b/c of that I have too many unrealistic expectation. EX. I expect I can just jump into this game and start crushing, I think I should running better today cuz I already running below EV a lot... These thoughts are meaningless and hurts my game.

For fix these, I need some new goals. (and update some goals I made previously)

Short-term Goals (15th-30th Nov.)
[ ] Don't play more than 6 tables.
(The only condition that I can play 8 tables is all the game is running on Stars and non of them are zoom.)
[ ] Don't check result til the end of his month
[ ] Watch 32 videos
[ ] Post 16 hands at forum, and use PokerJuice to analyze them.

That's all. Will post some hands later. Good luck at tables!

Day 5 (18th Nov.)

Monthly Goals
[ ] Watch 32 videos (1/32)
[ ] Post 16 hands (0/16)
[ ] Don't check result til the end of this month ...FAIL
[x] Don't play more than 6 tables

Fail the "Don't check result" goal cuz i feel I lost so much so I need to check to see if I should move down...

Down ~8k since the journal start. The downswing makes me dont have the motivation to anything else but just grinding grinding and grinding... I don't feel its a good cycle and its def makes me even harder to get out of the downswing. So I need to add some new rules/goals.
(Keep adding new goals maybe looks a bit stupid, but I think its important for me, esp at this point.)

Monthly Goals
[ ] Watch 32 videos (1/32)
[ ] Post 16 hands at PLO forum (0/16)
[ ] Don't check the result until the end of this month
[ ] Play 1/2 zoom exclusively until +10k (now -8k)
[ ] Spend at least 1 hour to study/review/post BEFORE the first session of the day everyday

I believe things will pick up soon! Good luck everybody!

how are you doing ryan?any progress

keep moving ryan.

Sup Ryan,

I'm a fellow Taiwanese Grinder like yourself starting at very micro limits, I believe you are a friend of Ang? Anyways, will be keeping an eye on your journal, gl!