What Percentage of Poker Players are Winning Players?

[acidburnfx]

Would probably estimate something around 5% (long term winners month-on-month), 25% with some ability to read the game, however, still with some technical failures (short term winners) and 70% are losing players.

 

[freestocks]

25% yea definitely $100 I drive in the driveway.

 

[Alex Sentsov]

Stable in plus 5-10%, from zero in plus 25-30%.

 

[Jayplay916]

Roughly 25% I've read. Happily I'm one of them.

so how much have you won in your poker career and what site do you play at?

 

[krisi77]

even if you are making a profit from poker for me it is important how much you earned from it. if you have invested hundreds of hours in poker and earned $ 300 for me as a losing player because of the amount of time you have invested. So, in my view, the percentage of winning players is negligible

 

[vov4ik]

I don’t know how about many poker rooms, but if you take players in one poker room, I think that half of them will be winners and the other half losers, but this is compared to cash games, and there are very few winners in tournaments because there is a small zone and few from the players gets into the prizes!

 

[Meepomancer1122]

You have to figure in rake and fees also. Especially if playing low limit live. Really tough to consistently beat rake there imo.

But to answer op it appears just about everyone is winning player besides me. Hope you all enjoy my money

We all love losing players
They allow the winning players to win <3

 

[Pulsar]

I've heard about this statistic-only 5% of players win poker, the majority of winners play zero, stuffing rakeback and only a small part of these 5% constantly stuffed soy steak! Here are some disappointing conclusions-and I'm inclined to believe them!

 

[Pulsar]

P.S.and Yes not win, and play in plus!

 

[muse713]

Can't remember where but according to them it was 10% winning, 50% loosing and 40% break even players

 

[lewis99]

gday all...no real stats just general guess of 10 to 15%.....thanks darrell

 

[bekel285]

so how much have you won in your poker career and what site do you play at?

Roughly $5000 last year, i'm at a bit over $3000 so far this year. I play at unibet, bol/sb, pokerstars, ipoker, 888 and acr. I mainly play mtt's.

 

[roger perkins]

if you ask them 99% are wining or slightly ahead. lol

 

[fa1920]

In poker there are many people who play for fun who do not study any of this, so I would say that over 95% are losers.

 

[canabero]

maybe i'm not that winner but i consistenly earn some money every month... that's enough for me.

 

[22meandu]

even if you are making a profit from poker for me it is important how much you earned from it. if you have invested hundreds of hours in poker and earned $ 300 for me as a losing player because of the amount of time you have invested. So, in my view, the percentage of winning players is negligible

This is so true . A huge % of winners are not making minimum hourly rate , very few average wage earners are successful at any form of gambling .

 

[blessmeavraam]

This is so true . A huge % of winners are not making minimum hourly rate , very few average wage earners are successful at any form of gambling .

Agreed

 

[AlexDriver]

About 25-30% of all play in plus.

 

[ammje]

I once read an article about bank management, and that said that only 6% of the players have some profit in poker.
And being a good player or bad player is not a determining factor, controlling bank is the most important factor, a good player can lose all your money if you can not handle your bank, an example is isilsur1, that in a couple of sometimes you have lost all your money.

 

[MikeCarasone]

What percentage of Poker Players are Winning Players?

I think there’s a strong misconception on how many players are actually winning. The number of highly profitable players is low. Many break even or barely losing or winning players are heavily misconstrued to the fact that they are better off than they are. Rake and fees such as travel and lodging for live players eats up a lot of profits. Variance is a killer as well. There’s a reason so many players seek staking. Even the million dollar winning players are often struggling. From what I’ve read there’s a big misconception on how many are as financially comfortable as the stats indicate. I’d bet less than 10% are winning and 5% are winning at a highly successful level.

 

[cheeeer]

Watch how many players get ITM.

 

[Ricardo_lhp]

hello my dear, if I am not mistaken, I have already read something about it, and the percentage of players who are winners and live with it is only 5%, most are hobbyists, losers, or have a reasonable profit but no can live on it. If I'm not mistaken, that was the percentage I saw in some article!

 

[NWPatriot]

Breakeven calculations for tournament play is fairly straightforward to figure out. Cash games, not so much.

If 10% of tournament field is paid, then only 10% of any given field is getting "some" money back. You would likely need to cash once for every 2.5 tournaments if you are min cashing (43 out of 100 tourneys), in order to just breakeven (considering fees etc.).

Generally only 3-4% of the field pays at least 10x the buyin which would be necessary to breakeven if you were to finish near the top of 1 in 10 tourneys. Many players may finish near the top in a tournament like this but not consistently enough to stay above the breakeven mark.

So.... given this, it is clear that only 1-2% of tournament poker players are winners, if winning is defined as "consistently won more than their buyins".

I have personally cashed in 18% of the live tournaments i have played in, which i think is very good, however, because very few of these are the top spots, i am actually not winning from a total view of the data. I am sure i am just one tournament away from the "big one" however, so I keep playing. LOL.

 

[Anders1616]

I like to play sit and go, Omaha hi/lo $ 1 double or nothing.

When i win i get $1,84, so to maintain my bankroll i have to win more than half of the game i play.

With a rough calculation i have to win 54,5 games out of 100, otherwise my bankroll will evaporate after a while.

So to be a successful poker player, i need to win at least 55 games out of 100.

 

[west28]

stable winning players should be about 5% to 15% is hard to be determine when no one would really say how much they loose only how much they win, only see or hear stories about winning