I think so too!The exact number is obvoiusly difficult to know among other things because of variance. But yeah it is probably only 5-10%, who are long term winners. Those 5-10% tend to play way more than average though. So when you play, you will be facing more than 5-10% opponents, who are long term winners. Or to put it another way: Fish tend to play for a while, lose for a while, and then most of them stop playing. A few takes the time and effort to improve their game, and then they become winning or break-even regulars.
You need to study more, to be ready for real money action. Watching several hours of pro players will do nothing , compare to whats out there. Just suggestion.For now I am one of these 95% losers.
However I intend to be a good poker player, I'm watching several hours of pro players analyzing hands and explaining actions, I intend to start betting real money soon.But anyway I agree with you, the vast majority of players only LOSE and Lose, like a gamble..
I would assume it's close to this from the sharkscope entries I've seen, particularly if you're including live players in the overall stats. I would imagine if you were interested a quick search would return some studies on average player win/loss ratios across online poker clients based on Sharksope data. I'm not sure if/how you could track win/losses for live players in this without some sort of self-reporting, but online player trends should be a good indicator.Is it accurate that 96% of online poker players lose money? I have seen several users on this forum in several threads throwing this statistic around. I would like to know if there is any basis for it; what study or source is this 96% figure based on?
And if you do not agree, what do you figure the statistical breakdown is amongst winners, break even players and losers? Thanks! 5️⃣
You winMajority of players having fun, 10% trying to ruin that
all players lose completely, poker is a game where only poker links win because they get 10% of each player
This sounds accurate to me.I'm pretty sure we'll never know an honest answer on this but I don't think it's as bad is 96% losing. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere between maybe 8% and 15% are winners or slight winners maybe another five to 10% break even slight losers and there will be the rest that are just losing money. I just don't think it's 96% it's just too high and the game wouldn't survive if that many people were losing.