Playing poker is easy. Playing consistently winning poker is difficult. I took your post to be wondering what makes a player a winner and why are most players losers.

My 2 cents:

The vast majority of players don't try to be winners. They don't read the literature, they don't read these groups, they don't watch the game closely, they don't analyze their play, they don't think about what other players' actions mean and all of the rest. They do not develop the skills to become winners and they don't even know, nor do they care, what those skills may be.

I can't relate to their thought processes. I wouldn't put my money at risk without some idea of what I was doing.

I've gone so far as to recommend Dr. Schoonmaker's book to a few friends because they are 'hopeless' and I thought they would recognize themselves in the book and then take corrective action. None of them ever read it. That's why there are so few winners. Never mind bringing the total package to the game. They don't even know there is one.