NL cash player, where does you profit come from?

[Talking Poker]

Poker is a combination of many small pots and a few big ones. That's how it works. I'm not sure I understand what your expectation was, but if it's that you would win a bunch of small pots and avoid the big ones (be they winners or losers), that's just not going to happen.

I get the feeling you are still looking at poker as a short term game, and trying to draw conclusions by looking at a few hundred hands or something.

[Penguinfan]

There may be some truth to that, well not the few hundred hands part, but the short term part, maybe.

I guess i do feel like aces should win each time they are dealt and that the best player should win each time he plays a tourney.

I was shocked the first time I found out what OPR was and how high I was ranked (relative to what I thought it would be) and how few times the best players win/cash.