Gettin ready for online PLO

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Gettin ready for online PLO

Hey guys!
I'm currently preparing myself for a transition from NL and PLO live games to online PLO 6max only!
Reasons for this are that
a) my bankroll got really hurt in the last 6 months due to a brutal downswing and several other costly happenings and there aren't many (if any) small live games in my region and
b) those live games are unbelievably tilting to me and have become incredibly annoying

My online poker background: won some tourneys in 2010-2013 for cashes in the region of ~2k-6k, cashed out most of these winnings and went broke trying to grind NL 6max cash games w/out proper BRM (moved up in stakes to chase losses) and probably w/out proper skill also :D
read some books like harrington on holdem/ theory of poker, but basicly never developed any further, basicly assumed that 95% of online players are either overaggessive spewy maniacs or total nits (and therefor I became either a POW or an overaggessive spewy maniac myself)
didnt get anything huge going in tourneys for 2 years now and figured that I'm probably just too bad to compete with online players nowadays, since everybody seems to have improved drastically over the last years.
So I have to either quit or improve myself!
And I dont like to quit :)

My plan is to play PLO 6max online and get really really REALLY good at it, no matter how much time and effort it will take!
Luckily I'm having the opportunity to deal in a private PLO500 game two times a week to come up for my expenses and spend the rest of the week on studying at University, so there's plenty of time for me to play poker / study the game and I dont have to cash out any money.

Now my questions are:
How, where and what should I start to learn and to play?
I figured it's probably best to start playing PLO2, because if I go broke there, it's easier to rebuilt and I'm not even sure I can beat the PLO5 field atm.
Also: Play reg tables or zoom??

Which BRM should I use?
I am very sensitive for going on tilt / fearing to go broke / thinking I cant beat my opponents when losing over 2-3 days straight and get really mad when running several buy-ins under EV with aggressive BRM and therefor I should use a very conservative BRM.
My plan was to play PLO2,5 and 10 w/ 100 BI and all stakes above w/ 150 BI.
Is it too conservative and am I wasting time/money playing overrolled? I obv want to move up quickly but I always fear that when I'm up 20 or 30 buy-ins that it probably only came due to a good run of cards and that I might lose back all my winnings if luck turns around.
I want to be able to not give a sh*t about how much I just lost if I'm confident that I lost it while playing well and having made the right decisions.

Where/what to study? Which Software to use?
A friend of mine gave me access to the video series PLO Quick Pro. I watched it and found it very helpfull to get an idea of what PLO is all about and how it should be approached.
Now I've created an RIO account with Essential membership and don't really know where to start learning and which videos to watch? How should I analyse sessions / hands and which? Should I take coaching?
Do u guys have any piece of advise?
Is an Essential membership enough?
And at which stakes should I upgrade to Elite?
Same questions for PokerJuice! Is it mandatory to use in order to gain an edge over, say, PLO2-PLO10?
I have a licence for HM2 (not for Omaha Pro). Do u recommend upgrading it or will I do just fine with standard HM2 in the micros?

Last: Do you recommend playing reg tables or zoom??
zoom is good because I can put in a ton of volume so I can review a ton of hands (4tabling zoom is no problem for me)
but I will have to develope more of a generall non-read-based strategy whereas at reg tables I can exploit better because I have way more reads but cant put the same volume in because i feel uncomfortable playing more than 6 reg tables at once AND observe them, which may impact on my hourly...or not?!

I know, these are lots of questions, but I really wanna get things going right now and I appriciate your answers!!

Thx in advance!!

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