I know why there are so few long-term winners at poker

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It has nothing to do with how well or how poorly anybody plays. The mathematics of the game can't support more winners than that.

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I'm not a math expert, but it seems to me that if many of the losing players worked to become better players they could take away some of the money that the winning players are getting. My thought is that the pie would still be the same size, but divided by more people, and the people who were getting the biggest share, would see their share shrink. Isn't that what all the good players are talking about when they worry about the games getting tougher?

Regardless of what the actual percentage is that the game can support as long-term winners, there are things that losing players do that make them losers. One of the points of my post was to discuss a major reason that people often overlook.