I kind of expected such a day. After all I had moved up to $25-50 NL tables and a 6 buy-in downswing was inevitable. I'm happy though since I didn't play bad and most of the money were lost due to bad beats. Here are a couple of interesting daily and monthly graphs and stats, along with a couple of my worst bad beats I experienced yesterday.

December was another profitable month for me in online poker. I am glad that I came out as a winner against very good poker pro's, although I continue spewing money to other regulars. SmittyUF was my best friend at Pokerstars tables during December and I did manage to make almost 9 grand off the famous "nanonoko". DidzeR and UCIPitcher were my worst enemies losing more than 15 grand to them.

December has just started and the poker leader boards show me as the top online poker winner at Pokerstars for this month at $1000NL tables. It may be early in the month, but leading the race is quite fun! The net amount is not exactly the real one as my Poker Tracker database shows, but I guess the same applies to the other players. Of course I recognize quite a few of the names below me, since they are mostly regulars at Pokerstars.

A small update on my recent poker performance: 3 days in a row I come out as a winner at the 200NL poker tables running hot and playing well. My win rate is just above 10BB/100 and I have managed to play 5,000 hands per day. I nowadays play 12 tables simultaneously which is somewhat above my multitabling skills, since I'm used to play 8 tables. Playing many hands also helped me clear a VIP Pokerstars bonus (250,000 FPPs for $4,000) which was a nice addition to my bankroll. At the moment I'm taking a break after 3,000 hands for today but I'm looking forward to playing 3,000 hands more by the end of the day.

Tilt in online poker is responsible for many players to quit on poker. Everyone has a story to tell when tilting comes to mind and I am sure they all ended losing a lot of money. That was no different of what I experienced yesterday when I lost 10 buy ins running bad at 200NL poker tables. Mind you, running bad does not mean playing bad. It is just when you get unlucky and the playing cards go always in favor of the opponent. Of course the odds will balance and eventually I will get "lucky" some other time helping my winnings to reach the expected value I was hoping for when making the moves. Until then, avoiding tilting is a major step towards making money from online poker.