So it's Monday afternoon 2pm my time, and another long night of Sunday Tournaments is coming to an end.

I went into last night with high hopes, having gotten a decent sleep, and heading into day three of the Ongame Million Guaranteed 6-max with a good stack.

Sadly, I just never really got going in this event today - the euros are pretty easy to push around, but I kept missing every single flop and never won any big pots at all...

No antes at all during the event either so blind accumulation couldn't make up for having to give up in every pot of decent size.

I went out AQ < AK in 70th or so for $2800.

As far as the other majors went I cashed in more than I usually do but only managed mincashes or thereabouts, so nice to recoup some buyins but alas no joy.

The one tourney that I have consistently been doing well in is the $55R on Stars.

I love that tourney so much...

I got 4th in it today for $12,521; and 2nd in it yesterday for $10,160.

Really nice end to the week and I guess to the year.

December was a struggle overall.

I put a lot of energy in and got very little out of it.

PLO went really badly, I won a bit at 2/4 and stuff but one night I played 10/20 on Party vs a 90 VPIP Russian and lost 5 stacks, erasing all my profits at lower stakes in half an hour.

I'm banning myself from PLO for the foreseeable future.

I played a bit of 400NLHE just to get a taste for holdem cash again and felt like I actually played extremely well - usually I take a while to adjust back to cash but I felt like I was seeing everything clearly, which was nice.

I feel pretty comfortable with grinding a mix of 400NL and donkaments at the moment.

I am starting again in a lot of ways right now.

My roll after having paid off the house is pretty small, and a lot of the ideas I conjure up for myself of doing (like packing up and heading to Europe to play some live tourneys for eg) just aren't feasible for me right now.

I am hoping they will be soon, getting a few scores this week helped and will hopefully kickstart a nice run.

It's exciting in a way, actually caring about and needing the money, and trying to go robusto again.

It also runs parallel with the way my non poker life is going...

In 5 hours I'm flying to Melbourne to play a NYE show with Extortion.

I will be there for a week, and then home for a week, before flying to LA to begin the US tour.

After the tour (goes for 3 weeks) I'll be in Canada, with no firm plans on where to go from there, when to come home, or where I'm even going to be living.

I have been flirting with the idea of moving to Melbourne again.

The March/April run of live tourneys in Europe are very appealing as well.

And then of course I'll be heading back to WSOP in June/July.

I don't know how the year will take shape.

I'm not sure what to do.

I am very tempted to put all my stuff in storage and then just hit the road...

I could stay in North America a while, then hit up Europe for some live tourneys, see how I feel...

But it's hard to leave my bands behind, especially with two of them newly playing shows.

I will be making my decision somewhere between Melbourne and the USA.

I can't complain, all my options are pretty great.

Best of all, I've really acquired a determination to crush poker again at the moment.

I'm pretty sure next year is going to be sick.