~What about tournaments? There's a buy-in which you have to pay whether you want it or not. I agree with you regarding cash games though.
Yes, tournaments mostly brings more money, and you can choose your level with choosing buy-in size. But the same time leveling-up profit level, your opponents skills growing up too. Not always, but mostly.With this I disagree because there are tens of millions people in the world playing poker online, and most of them do not develop new strategies, or learn them from the contemporary best poker players. It's not that they are lazy or something, they just don't have time for that, having other more important things to do. And you can always find such people in online tournaments, and outplay them. At least that's my theory. "Don't Try This at Home!", as they say.
Well, what you say is more incorrect today than ever in history. On the one hand you are right that most players are losers. They lose money in poker in the long run just like those who lose money in casino games. They don't bother to study and improve or they do very little.
However, about a decade ago, with the proliferation of online poker schools and all the material that can be found on the net, the percentage of players who study and improve has gone up a lot, and that has led to a tightening of the levels.
You are also right that most of those players can be found in online tournaments, because the luck factor is more important than, say, at 9 cash limit tables.