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[QUOTE="TheSkeptic, post: 997889, member: 46280"]
Not an easy poll to conduct this and hard to make sense of results I would think.  Here's why.
 
Player Fred has put in $600 over 6 months to his poker site.  So far his total winnings are $935.
 
Question:  Is Fred a winner according to your poll?   I guess you would say yes.
 
In fact,  Fred is a shite player who loses over and over again.   He hit one single big MTT win that brought in $800.    So, in general, Fred is a losing player like many of us.
 
The point is that the analysis of money in vs money out as a snapshot in time is not sufficient to determine if you are a winner or loser.
 
If it was then we could incorrectly determine that slot machines are a winning strategy gamble having played a few rolls and won.  In fact we know that slot machines are a terrible gamble and always will be.  YOU WILL LOSE over time if you continue to play them.
 
Thus with online poker, I think we see the same dilemma.  Every player will have highs and lows if we map their HHs.   The highs and lows will vary in severity according to how the player plays.  e.g. those players who play mostly large MTTs will show many losses and one or two very big wins.  Cash table players will show much smaller peaks and troughs.
 
In the end then how do we determine a real winning player?  Probably you have to look at people who have played at least 1 year and have played X thousand hands in that time.
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