[nuclear500]

In the 30k odd hands or so I've played over the last year I've seen this same type of graph.

Only thing I can come up with for me at least in some of the cases is not knowing when to step away. I'll take a bad beat or not catch any cards and keep playing telling myself "it can't keep happening" and it does.

This is probably what the graphs look like for the pros who play in primarily cash live games rather then tournaments. They'll build a roll with the cash games and then hit a couple 5-10k buyins and boom, they don't cash. Very sharp down swing in comparison to the upswing but in the big picture, its always going up in terms of where they stand in purely in profit-made.