Winners, losers and variance

[Shandrax]

We all know that people who constantly lose to bad beats are victims of variance. Now if there are people who lose for months or even years because of variance, there should also be people who win for months or even years because of variance, right?

Could it be that winning is just the upside of variance and that many of those "skilled" guys are nothing but riding an above average streak of luck?

Maybe being a winner or a loser is for the most part just a matter of samplesize after all.