Percentage of online players who are profitable

[Big_Ham]

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i'm a winning player over a good amount of hands at 25NL and 50NL but it boggles my mind to think i'm among the top 3% of players.

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There are plenty of players who are good, but losing players. They may have control of every part of their game but bankroll management, for example. This one problem can easily make someone a "losing" player.

In my example of my local group of 50 ... every one of them has skills capable of taking a tournament down (i.e. great skills), but not consistently enough to make them winning players. Online is also a TOTALLY different beast that takes some adjustment to become a winning player.