I think I've tried 6 times to write a post because like Celtic I like the way you come across but each time I sounded too harsh. I'm writing this but likely ill delete it and start the next one with I've tried 7 times..
I think you're being very very very naive with the whole poker thing. There just simply isn't people playing 25 pound tournaments and breaking through to the big scene and the big titles. Yu have to work hard which I'm sure you do but you have to put the hours in, you're playing literally no hands/hour and your row and hurly is going to be so so so so so low that you will never be able to step up.
Everybody who has told you not to play GPS is wrong. The only chance you have of actually getting a bankroll together is by just taking ridiculous shots,and getting lucky followed by losing 5k+ and realizing you're not good t poker. That sounds so harsh and I'm sorry but I mean it in a nice way.
Playing live tournament is not a sustainable way if making a living. Playing live tournaments and having a minimal % of yourself even more so gives you less chance.
I know it's the boring answer and I know you've said you don't enjoy it but you simply need to grind online and put hours in, it's really hard to analyze things after a tournament with live poker but with online you can simply go through the whole hh and I'm sure if I looked through one tomorrow I'd find 5 things that I did wrong.
It seems you're in a situation where people like you and would be happy to stake you so I'm sure they would move this online and you will likely be a winner at small stakes tournaments.
Just think of the people around you..
Alex g - manly live guy, didn't like nline. Eventually grinds a a bit online
Rexas - live guy who is now transitioning more into online
Adam picken - Adam was a live cash grinder and began playing small stakes MTTs grinding and working v v v hard and is now playing upto high stakes MTTs
I can really name almost everybody who is a successful live has had to transition to online.
I really think you should stop wasting your time and money with what looks like a pipe dream here. Sure have the Dtd deepstack or an incredible 100, enjoy it, get prepared however you want, massages with happy ending, yoga wte floats your boat. Enjoy them but don't gret them as your ticket to make money, use them as a high risk yet high reward investment opportunity that you give yourself for,working so hard for online all week.
This is resuls from a 26+6!! Yes over 20% rake!
153 runners
Place Player Name Prize
1 Nigel Hardy £1,062.08
2 Amjad Mohammed £613.73
3 Adrian Burns £367.50
4 Nathan Weldon £257.25
5 Ashley Bracey £202.13
6 Habib Chatoo £165.38
7 Andrew Sledmore £147.00
8 Wasil Dhingra £117.60
9 Charles Grant £99.22
10 Kyle Madden £77.18
11 Paul Burrell £73.50
Them your most recent cash
Entries
108
Total Prize Pool
£ 2,700
Total Prize Pool (USD)
$ 4,145
Joe Smith
Matt Barnes
Kevan Stanley
1st
Joe Smith £802 $1,231
2nd
Matt Barnes £475 $729
3rd
Kevan Stanley £311 $477
4th
Pravin Tailor £232 $356
5th
Steven Champion £176 $269
6th
William Swinscoe £146 $224
7th
Amjad Mohammed £119 $182
8th
Peter Meredith £95 $145
9th
Paul Bradley £73 $112
10th
Brett Pinder £57 $87
11th
Peter Thorpe £54 $83
12th
Joshua Richards £54 $83
13th
Eleanor Hodgkin £54 $83
14th
Simon Hyde £54 $83
So lets say here your roi with small field size and high rake is 30% let's make it 50%.
So every time you play this tournament you make 13£
You then keep 50%? So that means you make 6£/tournament so say average time spent 3 hours is 2£ per hour. Even if you had 100% of your self that would be 4£. Edit just retread thread and you usually keep between 10-25%?
I really would never post to a recreational guy who wants to just have fun and enjoy poker but you have your goals as winning triple crowns,0 and huge major titles but its going to be literally impossible to do it this way unless you literally decide to keep all of your action in a tour event and end up blinking.
Your goal for the year is to make 20,000 pounds but I don't see you writing your goals smart such as I'm going to make 20,000 pounds by doing xyz with this roi and this amount of volume.
Lets say you play 150 live tournaments this yer. A lot!
Lets say the avg bi in 75 pounds (maybe too high)
And lets say your roi is 20% (you don't sell at markup and 75 pounds indicates some big guy in events where you may not be plus ev so 20% sounds fair)
That's 15 pounds profit per tournament and you are playing 150 tournaments so that is 2250 profit for the year. Now you keep 25% of the winnings, lets even say 50% that's 1200 profit. And next week you're planning on playing a 440..
Now lets say you play 300 tournaments (6 a week!)
Average buy in 100 (seems impossible)
And your roi is 25% (gave you higher even though the buy ins increased and thus should be better players, but maybe bigger ppools)
So for every tournament you make 25 pounds profit
You're going to play 300 tournaments so that is just shy of £7000 but remember you keep 25% so even giving you 50% of this even though its a high abi and its still 3500
So for you to hit 20,000 pounds profit this year you would need to have the equivalent of 300 tournaments (6 a week including you studying) with an average buy in of 100 (very hard to find this for the quantity) and have an roi of 75% (seems awful high.) and then remember you only keep 25%
I really want you to succeed and you seem to have all the ingredients such as intelligence and desire but these are not SMART goals and I really think you should reconsider. Everybody hates being "that guy" in December where they look back at their goals and realize they were unrealistic. It's not too late.
Btw for transparency lets say you
played 20 games in a Mtt session online
Played 4 sessions a week
Had an abi of 25 by the end of the year
Had an roi of 30%
That would be 2 sessions less than live tournaments a week.
80 games a week
320 a month
3600 a year
Each tournament you play you make 8 dollars
Every night you make 160 dollars
Every week you make 640 dollars
Every month you make 2500ish dollars
At the end of the year you would make 30,000 dollars
20,000.00 GBP = 33,174.82 USD
British Pound ↔ US Dollar
1 GBP = 1.65874 USD 1 USD = 0.602867 GBP
At least this way it looks realistic. Again you'd probably keep 25-50% but this way you're investing in 29 tournaments in a night and expecting some form of return and first place in these tournaments can be anything like 5-15k.
Hope I don't look like a twat
Edit- golly another perfect example! Best example maybe.