I prefer live poker for a few reasons. Firstly, I am on vacation when I play live in Las Vegas or Niagara Falls, so I am usually more relaxed and mellow. Secondly, live players do not make the same horribly stupid moves that an online player who is totally anonymous can make...very few players chase down an inside straight, so the really bad beats are fewer. Thirdly, you can never get frozen out of a monster hand like AA because your server went offline for a moment.