Online Poker

So, I am back playing online at Full Tilt Poker. Despite the fact that I have always been a winning player in live games and tournys, I have never been a winning player online. This is not to say that there have not been times when I was ahead a pretty substantial amount online, but I always seem to give it right back. I am still not 100% sure why I have troubles online, as it is essentially the same game with weaker players. I have some friends that I consider myself better or comparable to in live games, who are winning thousands of dollars a month playing online, and I do not see how they do it and I seemingly can not.

Nevertheless, I am back online and trying to grind out a profit. As usually happens with me online, I won the first few sit-and-go's I played in and made some profit early. I then subsequently gave it back playing in multi-table tournys. I took an especially brutal beat close to the money in a multi-table tourny. I woke up with pocket queens and had roughly 5,000 in chips. The blinds were 100/200 ans I open raised for 600. It folded around to the button who re-raised to around 2,000. I immediately re-raised all in and he called just as quickly. He turned over A/K and I was not happen to see I was in a coin flip for my tourny life (or close to it as I had him slightly covered). The flop and turn were blanks and all I had to do was sweat out the river and I would be well above the chip average and coast into the money. But, as often happens, the game of poker can be vengeful. The king hit on the river and crippled me. I was all in on the next hand and lost, I hit the rail like 3 players off the money. I was stunned and annoyed that once again 2 hours of play went up in smoke with a brutal river card. Earlier in the day I had pocket aces cracked by jack/10 suited to bust me out of a tourny. This is just how online poker seems to go, though I seem to get the worst of it, or at least that is how it feels. I used to get a lot more upset about beats like this online, and it probably cost me money. I never tilt in live games, but I used to a lot online. I have worked on that and have gotten a lot better. Hopefully that will lead to some big online wins.