in my country we have only two tournaments a year to participated you need to pay 100 euros, sign up about 250 players and only the first six are the awards, i tried it once and i had no luck
we also have lots of small casinos where the game is only for cash, bay chips and play as much as you want, you can get up from the table whenever you want, there i erned some mony not much around 200 euros, can play every night