Eurotour stop #3 Germany
Posted at 10:31 PM, 25 May 2008 to Online pool
5th place, Its getting tougher and tougher to win a Eurotour, i think i played one of my best tournaments in my life. I didnt miss many balls and break was very good. On Thursday i had to play a guy from Italy who had too forfeit because what i heard he was involved in a car crash on his way to Germany. I hope he is ok and will be allright. So now instead of th Italian i played Micca Georgopolus from Greece, i played well and won 9-5. Another match on Thursday against Henrique Correia from Portugal. He didnt play as good as he did in his last match and made some critical mistakes, score 9-2. Went to bed early because i didnt got much sleep in the last week because of Sky who is been keeping us awake at night :). On Friday i had a tv match against Albin Ouschan, yes the younger brother of.. And he can shoot so i had to be aware an focused. He had to take a 3-1 lead but missed the 7 ball. I took advantage of it and controlled the match for a 9-6 win 1 more to qualify for the single elimation round (last 32). Martin Larsen from Denmark was my opponent who i had beaten the last eurotour 9-8 in the last 32. I took a 6-1 lead but he fought back to 8-7. My break and made 4 balls but a tough first shot, i made it and ran the last 4 balls. 9-7. Saturday Last 32 First match against Ruslan Chinahov from Russia, the 17 year old talent started off really strong and made 4-1. But i broke and played very well from that point on and won 9-5. Last 16 Jonni Fulcher and me played a few matches on the eurotour yet and this wasnt even close to a match. The first rack i broke an ran. The next rack he broke and scratched on his second shot and directly gave up for 2-0 (wow) I took control to lead 6-0. on my break i left a dead 9 ball combination and again he gave up the game. He broke in rack 8 and missed his first shot and again he gave up that rack (I must say i would have run out anyway :)). In rack 9 i broke and made a ball. For a joke i asked him to give up the match and he did. He had to laugh about it himself too. 
Quarter final: In the Arena that felt like a sauna (about 40 degrees) I hope the Ibp will do something about it next tournament because i think some players will go knock out if the tension gets too high!! Karl Boyes played very well against me but so did i. So where did it go wrong??? The break, I wasnt able to break consistently and thats where i lost the match. 7-9. The ranking didnt change iam still 9th and Mark Gray is still ranked number 1. Results and Ranking you can find on www.eurotour.nu Next Eurotour is in Austria in 3 weeks during EC Soccer Videomatches you can find on www.247.tv (the ouschan and Boyes match are on there)
Nikky Sky is Born
Posted at 4:33 PM, 18 May 2008 to Online pool
Nikk Sky is born on the 14th of May, 3540grams, He and his mom are doing very fine. Some pictures in the photo section
Another Gp Win
Posted at 10:18 PM, 10 May 2008 to Online pool
Last Sunday i played the last Grand Prix of the Season and it was 9 ball.
I started of pretty well winning all 3 matches in the poule.
After that i had a win over Gijs van Helmond 9-4 to qualify for the last 8. Gilliano Smit was my next opponnent and he ran the first rack to get ahead 1-0. In the second rack i was forced to play a kickshot which i made. I ran 5 in a row from that point and it seemed to be decisive. So now the semi final against Aziz Moussati, He played very focussed and smart. But on 8-7 he scratched unluckily on the 6 ball. I made the last 3 balls to win 9-7.
In the final against Alex Lely who is still doing pretty good despite his poolretirement :) I played allthe good shots. Kicks, Banks Breaks everything went exactly the way i wanted and Alex made a few mistakes. I won 9-1 which is always nice in a final.
This weekend i am playing team competition for Club8. Next week will be the decider against Ames from Deurne.
Nick