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Vegas Wsop video's

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:26:02 GMT

Zie hier http://www.casinocity.nl/poker_videos_wsop_2009-03 5300000010733.aspx
alle afl. die ik gemaakt heb in Vegas.

Aussie Millions 2009

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:11:41 GMT

thanks to pokernews (http://my.pokernews.com/team/aussie-millions-2009/ member/83.htm ) i will perform in the Aussie millions 2009.
I will make a daily videoreport.
here you can see the promo:

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www.nickyroeg.com

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:10:33 GMT

i didnt post here for a long time.
this is because i have my own site now.
http://www.nickyroeg.com
so all the info you can see there.
unfortunately for the moment its only in dutch.
but there are also enough video´s to see.
so have a look at my site and leave a comment.
good luck,
nicky roeg

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4 Days and two hours ago

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:17:50 GMT

4 Days and two hours ago is the last time i wrote here.
Before that it was 2 months.
Now a lot has happened in those 4 days that i wanted to write it directly

I told in the last post that i was busy to find a sponsor to play the Ept´s for next season.
Well i already will play this season but not as a result of the sponsorship.
I have played a €50 rebuy tournament on T6 for a ticket to the Ept in warsaw and i won.
Well at least i ended within the first 5 places that was good for winning a ticket.
So i already will be playing from the 11th to 15th of march in Warsaw.

This is great news but on the other hand i got a telephone call yesterday in the afternoon from the probably future sponsor.
They invited me for a second meeting.
This meeting could only be planned on the 12th of march.
So for now i can play in the Ept but the sponsorship for next season will probably be canceled.

I hope to tell more about this in the next 2 weeks.
also i will report here how i'm doing in Warsaw.

For the dutch readers i have writing a bit more about this in my column: http://www.pokercity.be/column_nicky_roeg_you_win_some_you_lose_some-024200156210014.aspx

for now i will prepare me for the Ept in Warsaw and hope even to get a better result then i did in London.

Nicky "Nickname" Roeg

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The last 2 months

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:32:49 GMT

What happened the last 2 months:

End december i played the monthly tournament in Utrecht where i became 5th.
Unfortunately just outside the big money.

Half januari i played several tournaments during the Dom Classics in Utrecht.
I didnt play good tournaments.
On the last day i decided to stay home and analyse why i didnt play strong.
I thought that i found it and played that night the $80k guar. on pacific poker.
Well probably i really found it because i became second in the tournament.
520players left behind and a nice $12k win.

I played this tournament 2 more times.
The first one i was out in a half hour but the second time i became 5th and won again $4K.

In between i have played the European championship of deepstack poker in Drogheda ireland.
I love deepstack poker and it really suits my game.
But unfortunately this tournament i couldnt get a nice result.
But i had a nice time in Drogheda and it was my first time in Ireland.

For now i am busy with a lot of things in and outside the pokerworld.

I am writing now a weekly column.
This column is in dutch and can be found here
http://www.pokercity.be/nicky_roeg_column-000001000011216.aspx
Every tuesday there will be a new one online.

I am trying to find a sponsor to play next season all tournaments in the EPT and probably i have found one.
But this will be clear in the next 2 months.

I have made (with a friend of mine) a Holland supporters song for the coming EK soccer and we will try to release this half of may.

So a lot can happens in the next 2 months.
I keep my fingers crossed that at least 1 of this will be a succes.

This is all for now.
I wil keep you update here and in my column.

I hope you will leave a message here with your remarks.

Good luck.

Nicky "Nickname" Roeg

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Masterclassicsofpoker

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:17:31 GMT

What a week.
Great tournaments, Great players, Great dealers, Great pokerstaff, Great reporters.
Everything was great. Well almost everything.
Off course there was some things that could be better, but this is to talk about and hoping they will be better next year. So was the blind structure for the €1000 tournament great but till the final table.
The blind structure for the last tournament(€100) was really a crapshoot and in my opinion they have to cancel this tournament for next year because with 2 nice finals(the main event and the €300 freezeout) you can make a nice last day. Also there was some small things that could speed up the game and would be better for the pokerplayer.
Like changing shifts of the dealers, especially during rebuyperiod.
Also was it to the pokerplayer to change chips instead of the dealer(for example a player bet 200 but had only a chip of 1000 an other player had to change 10x100chips for the 1000chip). This is 1st of all very bad for the concentration and 2nd we would rather stay with 10chips of 100 then with 1 chip of 1000 because it is more powerfull to raise with 7x100chips then to throw in a chip of 1000 and say i raise to 700.
this are small things but rather important to the game. I hope the tournament direction will listen to this and see that it will improve even more the level of the game. I also hope they will invite the top of the dutchpoker players a few months before the tournament starts in 2008 to discuss more what can be changed.

What about me and the MCOP?
Well i had personal also a great week.
After london i knew i was on the right way but that does'nt say anything because you also need results.
i had learned a lot in the week in london and was wondering how that would infect my play at the mcop.
i had put a goal and that goal was pretty high.
i wanted to reach 1 final table.
As you have read i have made that goal.
also i finished 19e in the €100 tournament(i made it a rebuy festival but after the rebuy i played good poker till the last 28players because then it really became a crapshoot).
but most of all i had played the whole week great poker.
i have done things i could'nt imagine 1 month ago.
i have learned again so much the last month that i can say i have leveled up my game and if the results also come directly what can you ask for more?

ok i have made 1 mistake and it was in my opinion a big mistake.
i started the day really great and within 2 hours i had a stack of 31000(starting stack 10000).
i hit some nice flops but also i played good with for example this play.
sb/bb 75/150. lp makes it 400, button calls and i was in bb calls.
flop raiser bets 700, button folds, after thinking a while i call.
turn raiser bets 1700, i go thinking and after a while i raise to 3400.
raiser folds and i show .
after break for dinner we were taking with the whole table to the feauture table(that would be broadcast the day after on dutch tv).
from that moment on i could'nt play anymore my game and also did'nt get any cards.
after 6 hours under the warm lamps i became tired and with 20 minutes more on the clock to call it a day i had 16000 in chips.
thierry van de berg limped in ep with blinds 150/300 ante 25 i found and raised it to 900.
thierry then raised me to 2900 i call. flop he bets directly 6000 and i went all in. he calls instant and shows and with no help on the board i finish my main event.
i have discused with some people this hand and some says that this could happen but i am still convinced that i make a mistake here and that i had to fold preflop.
if i would have fold i still have 15000 in chips and come back in shape for the next day.
but ok this was again a learn moment, an expensive one but ok.

what to do now???
first of all i will take a couple of days off from poker to clear my head again.
go have some fitness and watch some series and movies.
then i want to make a shedule what is possible to play for tournaments in the next 2 months.
i would like to play for sure the vipdays in the holland casino in venlo
http://www.hollandcasino.nl/venlo/NL/Spelen/vipdays/default.htm
and the domclassics in utrecht
http://www.hollandcasino.nl/corporate/NL/Themas/domclassics2008/default.htm.
i also still have a possibility to go to australië half january to play in the pokerproforayear
http://www.pokerproforayear.com/full_leaderboard.php
as you see i am right now at 3rd position so it would be really tough to win this.
but you never know?
it would be really great if i can achieve to be part of this as for then it would be sure i can play some more tournaments in 2008.

but we would see what the future brings.
for now i am really happy with my results and my play.

please if you like to read my blog leave a message.
i would appreciate that.

greetings,
nicky"nickname"roeg

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1st goal achieved

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:03:18 GMT

the m.c.o.p is started.
my first tournament was saturday the €200 rebuy.
this was not my tournament.
i went out by someone who thought he needed to call my big reraise allin with an A3 os on a 10 9 4 board were i was holding 89. with an A on the turn and no help on the river my tournament was over.
the good thing about this was that i was able to go home early.

sunday was the €1000 with 1 rebuy.
this was more a deepstacked tournament and that's what i like.
starting at a nice table with marc naalden and (i was glad to see him for the first time live) steve wong.
i played my game in the first 2 levels(rebuy period).
i went up and down in chips and at the end of the rebuy period i had around 3900chips(starting stack 3000).
i decided not to make a rebuy/addon.
i cruised my way to the tournament.
already at the last 36 what was i.t.m(started with 280players) i become a little bit shortstacked.
in early position i got and went allin. everybody folded except the small blind lex raszi(who had a little less chips then me). he had . the flop was giving him his trips. the turn was the lucky giving me a straight and with not pairing the board on the river i doubled up.
befor i knew we were at the last 10 players and with the clock at 03:00 the casino(who has to close at 03:00 due to governement rules) announced that we would play a final table with 10 players.
i was very happy because with this annoucement i already had achieved my first goal.

i went home and off course i could not sleep directly.
so after some food and surfing the web i tried to go to bed at 05:30.
waking up at 08:30 was not exactly my plan, but with the adrenaline in my body i knew i could not close my eyes again and decided to have some coffee and getting the newspaper.
i phoned my thai massage address and asked to come by at 11:30.
after the massage i had 3 more hours as i had to be in the casino at 16:30.

exactly 16:30 i entered the casino.
off course i had my music with me for the walk to the f.t.

i had a plan how to play the final table.
as there was not really a possibility to play real poker(the blinds were 5000/10000 and an ante of 1000) i had to move allin very quickly. my stack was 55900 so that would mean without a call i gain 50%of my stack.
this was the chipcount of all players:
Seat 1 Peter Meeren 65.600
Seat 2 Daniël Schmidt 157.700
Seat 3 Jordy Veenboer 92.900
Seat 4 Sjoerd Bos 151.800
Seat 5 J. Fuchshover 285.800
Seat 6 Marc Naalden 351.100
Seat 7 Nicky Roeg 55.900
Seat 8 N. Fraioli 169.600
Seat 9 Thierry van de Berg 135.300
Seat 10 D. Lacoste 50.400

the first hand i found so this helped my plan to move allin on first hand.
with no callers i had now 80000 in chips.
unfortunatly i then did not had a hand to stay with my plan. seeing Q3, 93,62.
also seeing that other players wanted to get over with this quickly(bb called an allin with k2 os).
i decided to relax and see what happens.
till the moment i was done to 32000 and getting the bb.
there were already 4 players left.
someone raised to 30000 and every one folded to me i found and put in my last 21000.
i said he could fold for 1000 but he decide to call showing . with the board i was out.

getting €21084 and with achieving my goal of at least 1ft at the mcop i was a happy men.

but.....................................................

t.b.c??????????

interview after finishing 6th (sorry it is in dutch)

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in 6 days it starts

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:51:06 GMT

ok 6 more days and then the mcop will start.
i have changed some things.
the supersat. from 6 november i will not play because i will for sure play the main event as i have sold 54%.
so i would like to take this day off to prepare me for the main event.
therefore i have taken a ticket for the tournament on sunday 4november.

so my shedule looks now like this:

saturday 3 nov
sunday 4 nov.
wednesday 7nov (this is the main event that plays till saturday so off course i hope to play all these days)
friday 9 nov if im out of main event i play the other tournament on friday
saturday 10 nov same as friday.

for now i will not play poker this week as i would like to relax to get my head clean.
so just some fitness, sauna, massage, reading some books(not pokerbooks), watching some video's.

my goal for the mcop is to reach at least 1 final table.

i hope to see you all at 1 of the days in hc amsterdam.
come and say hello.

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some highlights from the ept london

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:32:23 GMT

with lot of thanks to script and redwatch.

EPT Londen: Recap dag 3 from Pokernews on Vimeo.

EPT Londen: Finale Recap from Pokernews on Vimeo.

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preparing for the mcop

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:24:05 GMT

in 2 1/2 weeks its all gone start again.
the tournament of the year for the dutch people.
the mcop(masterclassicsofpoker) in amsterdam.

i will play several tournaments there.
i already have subscribed for 3,6,9 and 10november.
my first tournament is 3 november and that is the €200rebuy.
6november is a €200rebuy sat. for the main event.
9nov. is a €300rebuy
10nov. is a €100rebuy
all tournaments will have at least 380players.
off course i would love to play the main event but to pay €5100 entry is too much for me.
i hope to sell some % so that i can play.
for now i have sold around 36% and i would like to sell 50%.
so to buy 1% is €51.

i will use this 2 1/2 weeks to prepare myself for these tournaments.
that means i would like to have the same preparation as i did for the ept london.
so lot of fitness, sauna, playing some poker etc.

if you are interested to buy some % have a look at http://nl.pokernews.com/poker-forum/topic30955/4.htm#505711

hope to see you at the mcop http://www.hollandcasino.nl/corporate/NL/Themas/mcop/Default.htm

Nicky"nickname"Roeg
IMINTHEZONE

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