I'm a tournament player, pretty successful although I've only been playing 2 months. I've decided to learn to play ring but I'm really struggling...think it's just a bad downswing as I'm well on the way to sorting my main leak of playing out of position. From PokerTracker I'm Semi-Loose/Aggressive/Aggressive (default rankings) during ring.

It's the variance and bad beats which I'm struggling with. Probably due to 0.05/0.10 limits I'm at. I'll spend a couple of hours playing well, picking up smaller pots with crap in position and catch a few monsters. Let's say I've doubled my buy-in (as I did last night). Then you get:

QJs on the button. Raise it up to 40c, get 2 callers. Flop comes Q J 2 rainbow. Pot is ~$1.60 so I bet $2.00, one call, one fold. A second diamond comes, so I push him AI (got it covered). River diamond...runner, runner flush with T 7 diamonds.

Make my stack back up to $15. Get KK UTG+1. Make it $1.50 to go. Get a caller. Flop comes A ( ) 9 3. He makes a min. bet and I go over the top to put him AI. Decided if it was aces then so be it, but had a read that put him on a smaller pair. He was...9s so he had a set. Obviously called and won.

Ready to quit for the night as I was down to $5 and seriously pissed off. Somehow get KK two hands later. Put in a raise of $1. 2 go over the top to $2.50 so I push. One fold, one call. He flips over ATs and gets a T on the flop and an A on the turn.

I'm seriously at the stage where:

1. I'll join the online poker is rigged camp
2. I need to fold monster starting hands. I make loads of cash of 56s (most profitable hand) and 7 4o (flopped a straight last night from blind!)

Aaaargh...help me please! A fresh insight into those hands would help. I realise I could have played a few things better, but I still think I should have taken down the pot in each of them. Any thoughts?