Hi AgronomVV and welcome to Cardschat. I have had some of those problems when I played live. But as far as playing online goes,I don't find any reason for being any way different than you are when you are not playing. One thing I do to set me at ease is to talk my way through every hand. You try a little of that and you will forget about being nerves. That's somethings no one can help you with besides a little advice that may or may not help. But you can overcome it, if you make up your mind to do it no matter what.You are going to find many things you need to learn, in the end it's all going to be up to you. And there are no short cuts to the top if there is such a thing. It's what you put into learning that counts. So now with all this other stuff you will be thinking about, you are not going to have any time for being nerves And always talk in terms of winning not losing. So there is another thing to think about. Does it sound better to say you won $5 or that you lost $5? Being positive and honest with yourself will break down the things that are in your way to get to your goals. Last of all, get busy running all this in your mind, and I promise those problems you have now will disappear and you won't even know when that happened.