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The
Rotterdam Open backgammon (10th) and
Pokertournament (1st)
a great success !
Photo's
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Results
click here !
This
time the tournament was organised in café
Spiegel. The hosts really had
done everything in their power to make it a smooth tournament
and could even provide on the last day very suitable tables to play
backgammon.
Friday
evening around 8
o'clock the warm-up started. The 1st price, the well-known Snowie pro
disc edition 4 generously sponsored by the Snowiegroup did go to the winner of
the final played between regular visitor Guido Hehmann from Hannover and Nol
Heyerman. The last mentioned won. This former striker of footbalclub Sparta
Rotterdam plays backgammon
since God knows when, has never read a backgammonbook and despite of all
technical developments survives well. His nickname is "the Wall''.
Besides the warm-up, players
could also show their skills in quarter entrees and/or
minjackpots.
5 British players Myke Wignall, Paul Gilbertson, Paul Barwick
(winner Beach 2005), Andy Bell (producer dvd’s Rivieracup and Monte Carlo) and
Mike Heard, would arrive Friday afternoon, but around 22
hours they still didn't arrive. To check it out I went 2 times to their hotel
without any result. The 3rd time I woke up and went straight on to
the bar of hotel Atlanta and of course the gentlemen were there to celibrate
their save arrival or what ever. After taking them to the Spiegel, Fridaynight
wasn’t the same anymore and it was the beginning of a restless night in
Rotterdam.
Saturday
afternoon 24 players,5 British 1 German and 2 Belgian players, completed with
Dutch players, among them the latest worldchampion Philip Vischjager started the
Main. 8 unfortunate losers could and did re-buy
After the 3rd round 4 players remained to play half finals on Sunday.
The consolation was played untill the last 8.
Only 4 die hards for the intermediate, because some, on second thought, switched
to to the Main. These 4 played Round Robin and Susan won the trophee. Now it was
time to introduce Texas Hold’em. Under the guidance of Jeroen Romme and Paul
Bayens 18 players started on 2 professional pokertables.The 1st hour unlimited
re buys and the blind went up every 20 minutes. The last hour I was still in
playing 4 others The public went crazy. At that moment I was the chipleader and
had serious chances to get to the last 3 to pick up a price.
My inexperience (1st time I played) and the fact that I got an ace every hand
that wasn’t sufficient made my chips melt like snow. Exit, but an worthful
experience richer !
The remaining 4 did go on and the most experienced/professional man became
winner: Andy Bell.
Result:
1 Andy Bell, 2 Nico 3 Karl
Sunday
afternoon:
After a solid brunch the fights went on. Hassan
defeated Rogier van Gemert and Mike Heard concerred Arthur Braacx. The
final was a bit one sided, where Mike wasn’t in trouble in any moment.
At the Conso the fight between Myke Wignall and Hans Willem for 9 points also
started. Myke promised me that he would finish the job within 15 minutes. He was
right, however lost the game. After been redoubled he lost a gammon and the
Crawfordgame was finished off by Hans Willem in a blink of an eye.
Because
the winner had to catch his flight and all games were ended the prize giving was
started up. After
that I dropped Mike after a 5 minutes drive to the Central Station where he went
to Schiphol by train. Later on he
mailed me that the gate was already closed, but a nice Schipholemployee let him
go on the plain.
How much luck one can have in just one weekend !!
The
trophees were handed over to the winners by Brigitte ( thanks again for your
assistance) After the distribution
it was time for the buffet. Cook Anna made a fantastic variety of food such as,
soup, rice, saté, chickenwings and all kinds of meat, fish and fruit. Bottles
of champage were opened and gave this festival the finishing touch.
Around
9 o’clock players were ready to chouette or play the last
freeze out ( only 1 by in ) pokertournament. This time 9 players. Alex won and
Pierre was runner up. These
3 days were great fun for everbody and according to what I've heard everyone has
had - more or less successfully - a nice relaxed weekend.
Up
to next year, C.U Ed Baars
A
personal report of winner Mike Heard himselve on
this link
RESULTS
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Marcel
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Hans
Willem C.
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Marcel
van Toor
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Paul
Baeyens
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Rogier
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Rogier
van Gemert
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Rogier
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Nol
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Nardy Pillard
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Nardy Pillard
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Nardy Pillard
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Myke Wignall
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Andy
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Andy
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Rogier
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Hassan
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Hassan
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Phillip
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Hassan
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Jeroen
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Guido
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Guido
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Hassan
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Myke Wignall
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Paul Gilbertson
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Paul Gilbertson
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Hassan
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Paul
Baeyens
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Gerard
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Paul Barwick
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Paul Barwick
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Mike Heard
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Mac
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Mac
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Mike Heard
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Paul Barwick
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Stan Kooiman
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Mike Heard
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Andy
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Stan Kooiman
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Mike Heard
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Mike Heard
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Pierre
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Mike
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Paul
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Arthur
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Pierre
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Paul
van Rooyen
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Arthur
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Arthur
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Arthur
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Eric
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Hans Willem C.
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Rob
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Rob
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Nol
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Hans Willem C.
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Hans Willem C.
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Reports and
results 2004
Rotterdam
Beach Tournament 2004
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Masters ( 29 + 3 )
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Winner
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Rogier van Gemert |
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Runner
Up
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Sander Lyloff ( Denmark ) |
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1/2
finalists
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John Slattery ( Scotland ) |
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Misja Alma |
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Consolation
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Winner
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Tore Fredriksen ( Norway ) |
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Runner
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Paul Gilbertson ( England ) |
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1/2
finalists
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Paul van Dijke |
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Hassan Rida |
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Last Chance
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Winner
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Paul van Rooijen |
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Runner
Up
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Phillip Visjager |
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Intermediate ( 16 )
| Winner |
Anthony
Fawcett ( England ) |
| Runner
Up |
Leon Weyl |
| 1/2
finalists |
Myke Wignall ( England ) |
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Rosey Bensley ( England ) |
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Consolation
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| Winner |
Ali |
| Runner
Up |
Rob Willems |
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Last Chance
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| Winner |
Zoe
Cunningham (England ) |
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Beginners ( 8 )
| Winner |
Duncan
Rousson |
| Runner
Up |
Brigitte Freijer |
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Consolation
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| Winner |
Diane
Li |
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Warm Up
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Guido Hehmann ( Germany ) |
| 2 |
Seong Lee ( Denmark ) |
| 3/4 |
John Slattery ( Scotland ) /
Ernie Pick ( England ) |
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Super Jackpot
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Francois
Tardieu ( France ) |
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Kasper Nielsen ( Denmark ) |
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Double Consulting
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Marcel van Toor /
Paul van Rooijen |
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Francois Tardieu /
Arnoud Mattern ( France ) |
THE
ROTTERDAM BEACH BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
20 – 22 AUGUST 2004
Report by Rosey Bensley
What
a fun weekend this turned out to be!
I had to use all of my persuasive powers on Slatts to make him come to this new tournament as he was
already planning to go to the opening weekend of the MSO at Manchester.
Ed Baars had done a good job of promoting the tournament at Monte Carlo
and Myke Wignall, my brothers Paul and John and Ernie Pick were all saying
they were going. I didn’t
want to miss out on this one!
As it turned out there were 9 Brits playing in the tournament and we
took home 8 prizes between us! Read
on and see how we all got on – Tony Fawcett was the star performer and deserves a special mention, as this was his
first international tournament!
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Slatts,
John. Paul and I arrived on Friday afternoon to find Ernie at the
hotel waiting for us and dying for a game!
The Friday evening play was in the Maritime Café just around the corner from the Tulip Inn where we were
staying.
The action was centred on the quarter entries and the Warm Up
tournament. Ernie met Slatts in his quarter entry final having beaten the winner
of the August Gammonitis tournament, Rene van der Plujm. He played a good game but Slatts was triumphant. In
the warm-up Ernie and Slatts were looking forward to playing each other again in the final, as they had both reached
the semis in
separate halves of the draw!
Unfortunately, it was not to be as they both lost! However, they did each win a Special Backgammon Edition of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey.
I am sure they both considered this to be better than the first prize
of Snowie 4, which, as those of you that know the 2 players concerned, would have
been of no interest at all!!!
The
whiskey actually ended up costing me 20 Euros!
After breakfast on Saturday, Ernie was joking around with me, Paul and
John (Slatts being still in bed of course!) and was talking about the prize.
He said “ it’s really a great prize you know, the box opens up into a
backgammon board and the pieces are inside.”
We all laughed and told him to pull the other one.
Unfortunately for me, I had a bet on it and lost!!
The plan was to get John and Ernie to pose for a photo with the whiskey but in the end Ernie became
camera shy (he even hid when the photo of all the Brits was being
taken – I suspect the Inland Revenue are after him and he doesn’t want to be
recognised!!) |
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On
Saturday, we woke up to a very grey, murky, wet day and felt like we
were in England! The idea of a beach tourney had sounded a great idea at
the time. I decided not to put my bikini on (much to the relief of all
present!) and went across to the playing area, umbrella in hand.
Myke Wignall, Tony Fawcett and his wife (a non-player) had arrived to join the British contingent and
we met up with Zoë Cunningham and her friend Sean (Fox Reformed players) at the
beach. |
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Ed
Baars and Michel Buket had organised the tournament in a very friendly beach bar. Slatts, Paul and
Ernie joined the 32 players in the Masters and the rest of us decided to play in the 16 draw Intermediate tournament. Surprisingly, none of us were drawn against each other in the first round. There were also 8 beginners playing. |
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After
the first days play had ended the Brits were feeling good. Slatts had qualified for the Masters Main semi-final and Paul was in the Masters
Consolation quarterfinal. However, this was a bit of a disappointment as he had thought his win
in his last match put him in the semi, but it was a progressive consolation, resulting
in him effectively playing 2 quarterfinal rounds!!
Myke, Tony and myself were all in the Intermediate Main semi-finals, which meant at least one of us, was going to go
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The
atmosphere in the playing area was very good although it was quite
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