Don't play tournaments, huge variance. Profitable players grind $2-$5 sng's at about 50% ROI; < this is entirely INCORRECT!!! I doubt anyone playing SNG's has an ROI of +50% (although there may be some MTT-SNG playing the 45's who are close & maybe some that are an exception). Winning SNG-STT (single table tournament) players have an ITM (in the money) of ~39%-42% & ROI will range from ~+1% - +10% (for winning players... in micro/low stakes some winning players will have slightly higher ROI% but not mugh higher. Med. & HS SNG, winning players more typically have ROI +1% to +3%) and you're bankroll is too low for those stakes. Move down, way down, to 2c cash and max 50c sng's. Grind your way up to about $100 (should take a month or two) then start add a couple of 1.10 tournaments. No more unless you can satty in. A 30% ROI with an In the Money percentage of around 50% will get you about 1k pretty quickly (and by pretty quickly, I mean after about a month or so). < doubt anyone maintains a 50% ITM at SNG-STT over any kind of half-decent sample size. Once you have that, move up to 10nl; where you'll start making a bit more money. Move up/down dependent on how much you lose/win. Very important: don't do what I do, which is come home from a bad day and tilt-spew off your entire bankroll playing 25nl. Also, if you're in uni, do not, do not, I repeat do not play after going to a house party/rave. Never ends well.
Good luck at the felt.
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Ban yourself from the tables for a month, read all the articles on this site on poker strategy. Then, when you feel you understand, and after the ban, log back in and deposit another 20. Play 1c/2c, no more, no less, and make sure not to budge an inch from those stakes until you're in profit. Post hand histories on this site; there are a lot of reg's who will give you pretty detailed analysis of where/when/how you went wrong.
Banning yourself for a month just sounds ridiculous imo (for OP anyways). Spending an entire month just on studying/reading will be close to useless (imo) as your head will be overfilled with info. & will have you confused in a big way. Ideally you want to be playing & studying. And at first you'll probably want to split this time up maybe 2/3 to 3/4 of the time playing, 1/4 to 1/3 of the time studying/reading (< & even that will be overdoing the studying part imo).
Find a decent book & read it. Play some pokerzz.
Then if playing STT-SNG, pick up Collin Moshmann's SNG Strategy book. Read a bit... play some more. Read a bit more... play some more (& so on).
Stick to one type of format (good one to start out with is 9plyr. SNG's). Also, if you've been reading (or watching) a bunch of Marty's stuff then you'll have some understanding of the basics (although I can't say I agree with all of his play). Moshmann's book will turn you into a winning player in the micros for sure! (it'll pay for itself... & maybe you can pick it up from the library?)
Also, a large part of the reason why you're losing is because you've only played play money before. Play money is godawful for learning real poker, case in point, play money: I'm up 3 million; real money, down £30.00