What percentage of online players win in the long run?

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What's wrong with Europeans? You were all European like 4 generations ago.

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We were not *all* European 4 generations ago. That's why we are better than Europeans.

[dlorc]

I think about 2-5% are long term winners over 200,000 hands.

[absoludicrous]

Europeans are weird.

[Greenfield]

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What's wrong with Europeans? You were all European like 4 generations ago.

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We were not *all* European 4 generations ago. That's why we are better than Europeans.

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Oh yeh I forget, half of you are now originally from sub-Saharan Africa. Who created such fine civilisations and cultures such as... erm....

Europe owns.

[absoludicrous]

Colonists own, bitch.

[caz]

What about European born people living in America??? (me)

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What about European born people living in America??? (me)

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Welcome!

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For LHE, the rake eats up most players BB/100 at the lower limits. A good player's best chance of sustaining a winrate above the rake is at the upper limits. The upper limit players constitute a small percentage of online players and still only a small percentage of this group are winning players. I'm with the 10% guessers.

[man]

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I think about 2-5% are long term winners over 200,000 hands.

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[cheiro]

IMHO 1-5% can do it with some consistency, and I lean towards the lower end of that range.

If you define "win in the long run" as being up 20 bucks after a few years of poker, then that is a different question that I don't know the answer to nor care about.