I'm about to head to the airport to leave for Malta. The plan right now is to live there for 2 months, do a bit of traveling in Italy, then live in England for 3-6 months. Barring any unforeseen circumstances I likely won't be back in the US until at least July. Even though I've lived in Canada for the last 6 months, leaving now just seems a bit different, likely because Toronto was just a short drive away from America, and well lets face it, Canada is super similar to America in a lot of ways, just with higher taxes and milk in bags.

I'm really excited for Malta though. Irishwife and I are splitting a big 3 BR/3 Bath apartment right on the water with 3 of our friends - including another married couple which is great since the women will be able to hang out while the 3 guys play poker. While it will be somewhat weird to have roommates at this point in my life it should be a ton of fun. I've always been somewhat of a poker loner in the sense that I haven't had a group of people to regularly talk about strategy/hands/etc so poker-wise I think this will be a great experience.

I'm sure 2011 was a mixed bag for a lot of players, myself included. I started out the year playing almost all Rush Poker on Full Tilt and was probably one of the biggest winners through Black Friday. Luckily I had cashed out a decent amount by the time everything happened. Moving to Canada was definitely a very difficult decision but its one I'm glad we made. Even though poker didn't go as well as I had hoped, I'm still optimistic about the future of the game and definitely still love playing even though some days I hate it. I'm sure that makes sense to anyone that plays a lot.

Well I guess I gotta jump in the shower so I'm not the smelly kid on the plane. Hope everyone has a great New Years.