I prefer to play live by far! It seems that I get unplayable hole cards (bottom 20%, or Sklansky Group 9) most of the time. It has been unreal! I am not a "Nit" either lol! I just get a lot of 7,2o, 8,3o, Q,2o! I have to keep my standards and not just play junk in order to play at all. When that happens (which is 99% of the time), I just sign off and come back later. It seems that the computer play can not come close to the way that cards would be dealt out naturally. I do still like online play anyway, because it is way more convenient than driving to the casino! I think that it depends on the online cardroom's program as to how close to natural that the cards fall. Anyway...this is just my experience so far! Maybe I am just on the wrong side of variance right now lol!