I Am a Luckbox and Other Weirdness

Ok, the weirdness first. I was sitting at this 15/30 Shorthanded table and there were what appeared to be 2 empty seats to my left, but whenever I posted the Small Blind (SB), there was nobody visibly post the Big Blind (BB) and whenever I was on the button, there was no SB, but a BB. I guess the software screwed up, because there was someone there, but they didn't even show up on my screen. It lead me to be very confused when there was an extra $15-$30 in the pots that I was involved with on the SB and the Button. I finally figured it out after this hand what was happening.

Full Tilt Poker
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $15/$30
5 players
Converter


Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is SB with :8h :jd
2 folds, Button raises, Hero calls.

Flop: :7c :8d :9d (6SB, 3 players)
Hero checks, ? Bets, Button calls, Hero raises, BB calls, ? calls.

Turn: :8c (6BB, 3 players)
Hero bets, ? raises, Button folds, Hero 3-bets, ? calls.

River: :8s (12BB, 2 players)
Hero bets,? calls.

Results:
Final pot: 14BB

I would just see that someone raised me and that's when I figured out something weird was happening with my client. He ended up having J10 for the flopped straight. If I knew who I was playing against, I would've slowed down on the turn...actually, no I wouldn't. I'm just crazy like that.

He proceeded to berate my play, but it was all observer chat. I put two and two together and figured out what was going on. To be fair, he played it poorly. I would've jammed the flop and the turn and check-call the river. He let me take control of the hand. Shorthanded, you have to be fearless and if I missed my outs on the river and he played this properly, he would've made $45 more dollars on that pot. This doesn't seem like much, but in the long run it does add up.

In defense of my play, I think the only difference I could've made in my play is just calling the raise on the turn, but I didn't know who I was up against (I figured him as a tight player from playing him before and would have played the turn differently).

My final point is to not berate the players. Whenever I am berated by another player for my play, I go ahead and play my game because they are going to overplay their hands and try to "bust" me. You have to expect bad beats in shorthanded play and to think otherwise is foolish.