Spin off from something TP and Brian talked about in another thread

[Penguinfan]

I am honestly suprised, in a good way, about the number of different approaches. In Kurn's reply he says "The bottom line is the bottom line". I agree that in the end game of it all we are playing to make money, but even in one of the minus sessions you could have played great poker and got unlucky, right?

Long run (however long that is) the luck and odds should play themselves out, which is why we want a player to call our set of Aces when the have a flush draw after the turn.

It just seems to me that absloute dollars won and lost, while the divideing line, isn't a true interpretation on how good a player you may be.