[iggymcfly]

The reason that almost everyone loses money in non-showdown pots is that it includes pots where other people go to showdown after you folded. That means there's an implicit bias against you and you'd really have to be doing much, much better than average to make money in that setting. The only way you should be expected to make money in non-showdown pots is if you're looking only at hands played heads-up.

With all that said, I've got a 20K hand sample where I have been just above breakeven lately, and it's because I've been playing low stakes with a bunch of players that are really easy to run over. You have to be against players with huge leaks to actually make money w/no showdown when multiway pots are included though.