Won the $22 midnight tourney on stars
 

Ship the $2300.

I'm curious... how much do you spend on buy ins on an average day, week or month?

Like, when you score a (relatively small) $2300 hit like this, I'm wondering how much that helps your bottom line...

Congrats on yet another win!

days that I play a full schedule I typically spend $1500 to $2k. wednesday and sunday I spend a bit more because of the majors on sunday and the $320 on stars and $1k on AP on wednesday. Sundays run between 2500 and 5k depending on how many of the major tournaments I play.

Wow.

So, for an "average" week for a big tourney player, you could easily spend $15k in buy ins - CERTAINLY 10k. So, call it $500k+ per year.

Kind of puts the sharkscope/pokerdb/IPR numbers of the big tourney players in perspective, doesn't it?

Sharkscope is Net Winnings though (winnings - buys ins - rake)

Most of the top players make around $100k annually. When you multitable 10 tablkes or more your roi ends up somewhere around 30-50% on avg.

That's interesting... because that's NOTHING compared to what the top cash games players make.

Hell, low limit (meaning < 5/10 NL, not meaning $25 NL) grinders can make that kind of money with very little risk if they just put the time in.

the one factor tourneys have is it isnt a grind. Its more fun playing tourneys IMO, working your stack, agression e.t.c