The Winning Player - Let's Define Him

[SheridanCat]

The question recently came up in the Beginner's Forum about what constitutes a winning poker player.

We're talking a long-term, non-results oriented winner. How are we able to tell if we are or are not a winning player? Primarily I'm interested in players who are primarily ring game specialists with maybe a few tournaments sprinkled in here and there.

Let's assume we keep complete session statistics, so we know our standard deviation. But, we play both B&M and online and while we keep Poker Tracker up-to-date, about 25% of our playing hours are live, so no PT for those.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to evaluate your play?

Before I get the obligatory suggestion to search the archives, I have done so. Using Google, I found many, many, many references to the phrase "winning player" but none that I found really describes what that means. Most take for granted that we know how to define a winning player.

So, thoughts?

Regards,

T