i think bad flops are the most painful

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I've been playing live for 2 years and just started playing online a few weeks ago. I just finished a second straight brutal day. I've playing 1/2 Limit on Absolute, where the tables seem to be extremely tight. Probably average fewer than 3 seeing the flop.

Anyway, I play a very tight, aggressive style and follow the starting hands for tight games as illustrated in SSHE. I'm getting killed. (Emphasis added.)

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Well, the only reasons to play at Absolute are:

1. Bonuses
2. To learn to play at a higher limit without having to actually move up and risk more money in a tougher game.
3. Loyalty because they really seem to have good customer service (and did I mention the great reload bonuses?)

Actually, I've played a bit of $1/2 limit and found it as you said, full of rocks. You do better to play a bit loose, raising preflop occasionally with marginal hands trying to take down the blinds. Otherwise you'll get blinded out since you make so little on your monster hands.

Once you clear all your bonuses, move to Party or Pacific.

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can't remember all their names, but bonuswhores.com, beatthefish.com and one other (name) site rate sites for softness.

the site whose name i can't remember was really good. why isn't it coming to me? i can even see the scoring system.

pacific, party and bodog seem to rate highly for softness, although i've had some frustratingly tight games on party.
also, i like sites that aren't heavy on bonuses, no pockertracker, lots of europeans and maybe sports betting. and i have medium experience at this.

I joined Absolute last Wednesday for their 200% bonus, and found the tables to be extremely tight on Wednesday & Thursday (20% to 25% to see the flop). This weekend there were many tables with 35% to 45% to see the flop. I've made a small profit (nit counting the bonus) just playing straight out of the sshe tight starting hand strategy.

As far as missing the flop, I seem to have a big problem with this when dealt AK. Thru 5000 hands I am showing negetive results with AK, but am winning nicely with AQ,KQ,KJ & QJ. Probably just a run of bad luck for AK, but the bigger problem is that I have a hard time letting go of these hands when they don't improve. I went back and replayed many of these hands on PokerTracker, and I was just giving money away continuing with AK UI into the big betting rounds. I gotta learn to let these go. But after missing with them 6 or 7 times in a row, you just know their due to come in by the river and want to keep playing ui.

Enjoy Life!