Playing Online PT2

I had a tough losing streak this past week. My original impression of 2/4 wasn't completely accurate, there are still a large amount of bad players who play at this level. For the first week or two whenever I played I would walk away up, it almost seemed impossible for me to walk away down, forget about totally broke. That changed quickly starting over the weekend, all of a sudden I couldn't win a pot with the best hand...or I would get into pots with good starting hands and have to fold when my hand didn't improve. In retrospect the losing streak definitely affected my game, I'm not going to blame all my loss on 'bad players' or bad beats, I definitely could have saved money by making better decisions. Here are some mistakes I think I made:

1) Staring out as one of the short stacks at the table. It seems like the majority of people sitting at 2/4 start with at least $100 (give or take), I've been sitting down with $50. If I win some of the first hands I'm involved in then I'm in good shape, I can handle some losses and still be able to battle my way back. If I lose a few hands (or just one big hand) right off the bat I'm in rought shape, it leaves me with not a lot of chips to do anything with. So when I rebuy online (after I take a short break to reevaluate my online play) I think I will try staring with $100 (and cashing out if I fall to $50).

2) Not being able to lay down monster hands the way I've done in live cash games. One thing I've noticed is that if I'm in a hand and all of a sudden my opponent raises or reraises me on the river, I'm beat (I haven't seen an instance yet where this wasn't true). Situations come up sometimes where someone has limped in with something like a weak K when I've got pocket As, and they hit a K on the flop so they stay in the hand, there is a bet and call on the turn, then they hit their two pair on the river and raise or reraise. This is when I need to lay down the monster hand and save some chips.

3) When my losing streak started to hit I should have just waited a few days or even a week to sign back on to play, but I played almost everyday hoping things would turn around and of course went broke. I need to learn to take time off, the chips will be there to play later when I've cooled off.