That was a look through the lens of results-orientedness, to see how it warps the self-evaluation of a session.  Let’s see what a refracted hand looks like.

No-limit hold’em.  Cash game.  The blinds are $10/20.  Everyone has $6,000.  I’m on the button with pocket fives.  Everyone folds to me.  I open for $80.  The small blind folds.  Joe is in the big blind.  He calls the $60 more.

The flop comes A-A-5.  I have a full house.  Joe checks.  I bet $100 in a way designed to convince the universe and even myself that I am bluffing.  Joe folds.

Damn, I should have checked!  I suck!

Okay.  Do-over.  Just like before.

I open for $80 with 55 on the button, and only Joe calls.  The flop comes A-A-5, Joe checks, and I bet $100.  But this time, Joe has AK, and he checkraises on the flop to $300.  I make it a thousand and he real quick moves all-in for six grand and I call just as fast and we both turn over and no ace or king comes and I bust him and…

What an awesome bet by me on the flop!  I’m a genius!