That's annoying...

My "new thing" when playing poker is to play like a tw*t for a while to build up a loose, rubbish image in the hope that my good hands get paid off. So it's very annoying when this happens:

***** Hand History for Game 7131835777 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, June 10, 16:40:50 ET 2008
Table Table 152116 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: PokerKater80 ( $84.73 USD )
Seat 4: chen1222 ( $17.38 USD )
Seat 5: marbar112 ( $26.43 USD )
Seat 6: David210982 ( $56 USD )
Seat 2: m_bertelsen ( $54.94 USD )
Seat 3: ben_w_2004 ( $51.81 USD )
chen1222 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
marbar112 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Ah Ad ]
David210982 raises [$2 USD]
PokerKater80 folds.
m_bertelsen folds.
ben_w_2004 raises [$7 USD]
chen1222 is all-In. ($17!)
marbar112 folds.
David210982 is all-In. ($56!!!)
ben_w_2004 is all-In.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, Jd, 9d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
ben_w_2004 shows [ Ah, Ad ]a pair of Aces.
chen1222 shows [ 7d, 7c ]three of a kind, Sevens.
David210982 shows [ Js, Jc ]three of a kind, Jacks.
David210982 wins $4.19 USD from the side pot 2 with three of a kind, Jacks.
David210982 wins $68.49 USD from the side pot 1 with three of a kind, Jacks.
David210982 wins $50.01 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Jacks.

Obviously this is what I want, someone to put in just over 100 big blinds with Jacks pre-flop. What I don't then want to see is a Jack pop up on the flop. Note that I also would have lost to the short stack who managed to hit a set of 7's.

I know what you're all thinking..."what has this done to the graph Ben?" Well I'll show you:



This is the graph for the 4.5k hands I've played since May when I started "afresh". I think if I'd won that pot with aces I would have reached a new peak in the graph. Oh well there's always tomorrow...

I needed cheering up so I thought I'd check out Cashy's graph and boy did it make me chuckle. I've only got about 300 hands on him from a couple of recent cash sessions but you will probably notice a general trend...



So that just shows me, things could be worse...