At a time when online poker players are trying to flee Australia due to its upside-down grinding schedule, Matas ‘bebaimis777’ Cimbolas is moving there later this year with his girlfriend. Sure, the online grind typically starts around 2:00 AM local time and the country is located decently far from anything else in the Pacific, but that’s not phasing Cimbolas.

“I fell in love with Australia after the Aussie Millions,” Cimbolas, who calls Europe home, said. “My girlfriend got a semester abroad at university and we decided to take that opportunity. It will change my schedule. I am going to grind mostly live cash games in Sydney and play online on Sundays. I will also take shots in live events around Australia.”

Instead of grinding from the pre-dawn hours to the middle of the afternoon and then figuring out when to sleep, Cimbolas will take the sane route and play more live poker, which he can do while his girlfriend studies and goes to class. There are plenty of live games, tournaments, and casinos around Australia for him to visit.

Cimbolas has a strong live poker background to draw from too. According to the Hendon Mob, he is #4 on the all-time money list for Lithuania with $777,000 in career winnings. The bulk of that came in late 2014 when he won the World Poker Tour UK Main Event in Nottingham for $313,000.

“I have been traveling around the poker circle since I won WPT Nottingham in 2014,” he said. “I play only Hold’em events, basically with a $1,000 to $10,000 buy-in range.” For cash games, he usually plays stakes between $5/$10 and $10/$25.

He followed up the WPT win with a victory in a high-roller event during the Sky Poker UK Poker Championships the following February for almost $100,000 more. And online, he just passed $2 million in career winnings in MTTs.

“I think it’s really important to keep an interest in the game and I love traveling and making new friends, so this mixing of online and live poker in Australia will help keep things on track,” he said.

Cimbolas and his girlfriend will be settling down in Sydney right after Christmas.

“We already know the location where we want to be living at, Sydney,” he said. “At the moment, we are still looking for a place that would fulfill our requirements. We know we’re going to live by the beach.”

His girlfriend is studying politics and international relations. She’s also heavily into fashion, blogging, and traveling, making her a perfect match for Cimbolas’ roving live poker career.

“She is always trying to keep updated about poker,” he said. “In the near future, she will try to play cash games by herself.”

Cimbolas is all the way up to #20 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings, three spots off his all-time high, and was the runner-up in aPokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker $2,100 No Limit Hold’em event last month for over a quarter-of-a-million dollars, the largest score of his online poker career.

He has won the Sunday 500, Full Tilt Sunday Major, Sunday Brawl, and Big $109, just to name a few, and is currently the top-ranked player living in London.

He’s also piled on other heavyweight online scores like a third place finish in a SCOOP $1,050 No Limit Hold’em event last year for $141,000 and a runner-up finish in April in the PokerStars Mountain Series Kilimanjaro for $119,000. He has amassed almost 2,800 in the money finishes over the years in online MTTs and even ascended to #358 in the world in the Global Poker Index.

He got into poker originally when he was a teenager and organized home games with friends. He’s a former chess player as well, so poker wasn’t that much of a leap from his former hobby.

“My experience in MTTs will give me more maturity in cash games,” he said, evaluating the prospects of almost having to abandon online poker altogether. “I am positive about it and it’s a good way of getting even better in deep, pre-ante strategy. My family and friends support this idea because they know we are at the right point in our lives to make a move like this. I will miss the support from back home, but depending on the situation, family members and some of our closest friends will come visit us in Sydney. We will miss our families for sure.”