How much is it(tour)
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It would be cheaper to play the best player within 50 miles of your home, 2 $50 races to 9 once a week. You can also ask him or her for advice.
If you believe you cannot cash in tournaments, I would suggest investing in lessons before a year long road trip.
To answer your original question - roughly $175 per tournament including gas, room, food. Assuming 2 tournaments a month, you would need $4000 to $5000.
This does not include your NPR bills.
If you believe you cannot cash in tournaments, I would suggest investing in lessons before a year long road trip.
To answer your original question - roughly $175 per tournament including gas, room, food. Assuming 2 tournaments a month, you would need $4000 to $5000.
This does not include your NPR bills.
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What he said only I was thinking 6-8000 :thumbup:
You could try playing around Asia. In Japan, there are usually large open tournaments once every month or two and travel is fairly cheap with a JR pass. There are also house tournaments in Tokyo and other metropolitan areas every day of the week that a very strong amateur can make a small profit off of. Other countries such as China and the Phillipines are probably similar. If you rotate countries based on tourist visa length, you could probably make a pretty epic trip out of it.
Join ABC League - play Am Rotation
Find (or start) an American Rotation League.
Costs is about $20-$25 per week for 9 weeks.
That is with 10 players.
This will open a gate for you to compete on a national level.
Contact Joe Tucker.
Mark Griffin
Find (or start) an American Rotation League.
Costs is about $20-$25 per week for 9 weeks.
That is with 10 players.
This will open a gate for you to compete on a national level.
Contact Joe Tucker.
Mark Griffin
You want to spend a whole year travelling and playing tournaments and you never cash?
I would say an easy 50k if you stay in the US. An easy 75k if you play in a dozen international events.
gr. Dave
I would say an easy 50k if you stay in the US. An easy 75k if you play in a dozen international events.
gr. Dave
Year traveling, hotel, gas, food each day would be maybe $120.
You'll need $43,000 just for that.
Then whatever tournament/gambling money you will have, if you have a weekly tournament in a town, say that's $20, plus maybe a few sets with someone, another $100 a week for a few cheaper sets, then a few bigger tournaments at $100-200 entry fee, maybe one every other month.
So that is about $7000 if you play a tournament a week plus 100 a week gamling give or take a few.
Roughtly $50,000 to travel for a year, assuming you will find hotels that cost $60-80 a night and eat pretty cheap. If you drop more than 5-10 on a meal each day you are probably looking at a $50,000 bill for food / hotel / gas for the year without pool money.
It just depends on what you are going to do. Are just taking off traveling and staying in hotels for a year straight? Are you planning several road trips and just taking the year off? I'm not sure where you are located but I would work on your game until you can cash at a rate of 75% or more in local tournaments. Then cash in regional tournaments say at least a 25% rate. Until then, work on your game. Take lessons, practice, match up, tournaments, etc.
You could also pm Gene Albrecht since he has been doing it the last few years but also giving lessons but he could give you some insight to the actual costs you might think of besides hotel, gas, and food. Good Luck.
You could also pm Gene Albrecht since he has been doing it the last few years but also giving lessons but he could give you some insight to the actual costs you might think of besides hotel, gas, and food. Good Luck.
Heck with Gene, this sounds like exactly what Rhea is doing, that is the one to talk to.
It depends on the WHY of you not cashing...
If the answer to the WHY of you not cashing is that you aren't good enough to cash, then keep your money in your pocket or in whoever's pocket it would come from.
You don't go on the road or on "tour" to get good.
So let me clear this up a little bit. When you compete do you play at the level that you practice at but just don't play good enough to win, or do you play below the level that you practice at but should wipe the floor with the people you lose to?
That one thing right there will determine whether this idea of yours is a fool's errand or not.
The only thing that getting the experience that you are talking about here does is allow you to compete at closer to the level you play at. It's a waste of money if you're trying to improve your skill level.
In fact, I think it can be detrimental.
Get some high level lessons and practice, practice, practice, if you are competing at the level you can play at and just aren't good enough to get there.
THEN if you still have trouble competing at the level you can play at, you can think about getting higher level competition experience.
Jaden
If the answer to the WHY of you not cashing is that you aren't good enough to cash, then keep your money in your pocket or in whoever's pocket it would come from.
You don't go on the road or on "tour" to get good.
So let me clear this up a little bit. When you compete do you play at the level that you practice at but just don't play good enough to win, or do you play below the level that you practice at but should wipe the floor with the people you lose to?
That one thing right there will determine whether this idea of yours is a fool's errand or not.
The only thing that getting the experience that you are talking about here does is allow you to compete at closer to the level you play at. It's a waste of money if you're trying to improve your skill level.
In fact, I think it can be detrimental.
Get some high level lessons and practice, practice, practice, if you are competing at the level you can play at and just aren't good enough to get there.
THEN if you still have trouble competing at the level you can play at, you can think about getting higher level competition experience.
Jaden
Eagleshot...Depending on whether your "travel" is within 100 miles of your home, or not, your figures are low. Unless the OP is traveling with someone, to share costs, a cheap motel (Motel 6 or Econolodge) is $50+/night ($75+ in many areas of the country). Food is appx. $25-$30/day (even eating fast food). The average vehicle gets 20-25 mpg, so traveling a minimum of 200 miles roundtrip is appx. $30+ in gas (at $2.50-$3.00/gal.). That brings it up to a little more than your figure, but doesn't include the costs to actually play in the tournament (entry fees, greens fees, practice time, calcutta expenses, etc).
If the OP is planning to travel within a region, or even several regions of the country, you have to include the costs of being "on the road" full time. Since I have done that for most of the last 30 years, I'm qualified to provide accurate costs...which are appx. $150/day, or $1000 per week. Assuming even 6 months on the road, costs would exceed $25,000.
Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
If the OP is planning to travel within a region, or even several regions of the country, you have to include the costs of being "on the road" full time. Since I have done that for most of the last 30 years, I'm qualified to provide accurate costs...which are appx. $150/day, or $1000 per week. Assuming even 6 months on the road, costs would exceed $25,000.
Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
You could always be as crazy as me...
You can reduce that if you are as crazy as me...
I'll drive to the location the day of the tourney, play and if I don't make day 2, drive home the same day...If I do make day 2 then I'm already close to breaking even.
It got a little crazy one of the times I didn't cash driving up to San Fran...
Got up at 2 a.m. Drove all the way up to San Fran (6 and a half hour drive) Played all day drawing Oscar first round then getting to the money match and had to play Vilmos...
10:30p.m. and I then got in the car and drove home.
I did have to pull off to the side of the road and nap for a couple of hours cause I was in danger of drifting off.
Ended up starting 2am Saturday and getting home and to bed 8:30 am Sunday.
I said I wouldn't do it again...and I probably won't, but who knows???
Jaden
You can reduce that if you are as crazy as me...
I'll drive to the location the day of the tourney, play and if I don't make day 2, drive home the same day...If I do make day 2 then I'm already close to breaking even.
It got a little crazy one of the times I didn't cash driving up to San Fran...
Got up at 2 a.m. Drove all the way up to San Fran (6 and a half hour drive) Played all day drawing Oscar first round then getting to the money match and had to play Vilmos...
10:30p.m. and I then got in the car and drove home.
I did have to pull off to the side of the road and nap for a couple of hours cause I was in danger of drifting off.
Ended up starting 2am Saturday and getting home and to bed 8:30 am Sunday.
I said I wouldn't do it again...and I probably won't, but who knows???
Jaden
Jaden you sound like me. I'll drive for several hours and then sleep at a rest stop. Get to and play in the tournament. If I don't cash then make the same trip home. Not recommended.