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Players Championship 17 & 18 Haarlem, Holland 19-20 June |
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 00:00 |
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Me and Ingela went to Holland for this tournament, flew in to Schipol airport and then taxi to the hotel and venue, big mistake, that's was expensive. Bad weather, so Friday we just went out and bought some things to have on the room.
Saturday and time to play. Got an Irishmen in first round, Mr. Magoo, John MacGowan. The game was not the best but Ok. I was leading 5-2 and surprise surprise I lost 6-5 and it felt like a never ending story. Ingela and I had despite that a great day with a great dinner in the evening.
Sunday got Andy Smith he played solid and he won pretty easy with 6-1. He then won the tournament by the way. Nice dinner on Sunday evening as well before going to bed. Straight to Las Vegas from here. Vegas here we come.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 13:32 |
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Players Championship 15 & 16 Barnsley12-13 June |
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Friday, 18 June 2010 00:00 |
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Not much to say about this weekend more then I played good but lost. Saturday lost first round against Martyn Turner with 6-5 missed about 3 darts to win.
Sunday I draw Ronnie Baxter in first round and if I just had hit those doubles it would have been a great game. But missed in the first 5 legs so I lost with 6-1.
Well well just back on practice board and soon very soon I will take it up one level. Pretty sure about that.
Next stop Haarlem and straight from there to Vegas. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 13:32 |
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UK Open Final, Reebook Stadium, Bolton 3-6 June |
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 00:00 |
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Time to go to Reebook Stadium, Bolton, England for the 2010 UK OPEN Final.
96 Professionals + 32 Rileys Qualifier and 10 BDO invites. Makes it a total of 138 players who wants to win and show what they can do. Lots of spectators that will follow the 4 day event. It starts out with 8 stages with one main stage and one medium stage and 6 smaller stages and everyone can follow the matches real close if they want to. Every stage has a Sky Sports camera and a cameraman and if you play good you might end up live in Sky Sports TV. Which I did.
We arrived on the Wednesday and we stayed in a small village named Lostock just one station from the Reebook Stadium. It was a lovely B & B run by a lovely woman and her daughter of age 4. Fabulous room with our own balcony over seeing the landscapes, very beautiful. Every morning she made us a full English breakfast and serves us at the table and her daughter had her breakfast with us so it felt very familiar and house warm. Next year when I qualify for the UK open again we will stay there again for sure.
Thursday we went up to the venue pretty early so I could start practicing for my game. Felt very good. Unfortunately it's so many players on Thursday so your guest weren't allowed in before 6 in the venue and the matches started at 7. So my guest Ingela and my Sponsors from A180 Dave and Karl Holden had to sit in the local pub while I was practising. But I practiced for a while then joined them before going to the players lounge again.
Tonights match was against Steve Farmer a former national team player for England but I felt really good and I was determent to win this game. I started very steady and took a 2-0 lead and it felt so good. But missed a couple of darts in wrong places so instead of keeping the lead I found my self 5-2 down. Steve played very good and so did I so it was a fun game to play. When I realised what was happening I told my self to shape up and stop missing the last darts and it helped. I pulled back to 5-5 with a great performance and in the deciding leg I missed 141 for the match and he could check it out on his last dart and once more I found myself loosing with 6-5. But I must say thanks to Steve for a great match and I'm looking forward to a rematch someday.
It feels like I'm very close now to take the next step up the ladder getting more solid and consistent by the day and soon the marginals will be on my side and good thing will happen for me, I'm sure of it.
We stayed and watch the rest of the tournament and had a great stay with old and new friends. Will specially mention John Price and his friends, hope to meet up someday over a pint.
Next stop Barnsley. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 13:21 |
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Players Championship 13 & 14 Salzburg, Austria 12-17 May |
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:00 |
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This time we, me and Ingela left on Wednesday so we could celebrate her birthday on Thursday in Salzburg before the tournament started on Saturday. We had a couple of good days with good food, good drinks and a great look of the town. The weather was not the best but with everything else being good it doesn't matter. Had a couple of hours practicing in my room everyday. Got one of Unicorns On Tour Portable Door Hanging System with me. Must say it works really well.
Saturday and time for the tournament. More then 230 participant, hmm. Got Steve Hine in first round and didn't play like I should so lost that match. Must be more focus when I play on Saturdays seems like I haven't got my brain with me the first day. Going to change that for sure. The evening we spent downtown watching The Salzburg football team being celebrated for being the champions this year in Austrian league.
Sunday and new hopes for a good run. Got first round today again this time my opponent was Bernd Roith. I open the game very good and I was in command the hole time but missing a couple of doubles so I was letting him back in the game all the time. So it became 5-5 and I had one double from 110 but missed and he checked out and won the game. Another 6-5 lost it will turn soon. He played very steady and didn't do many mistakes so all the best to Bernd.
Back home on Monday and this time I'm actually going to be home for 2 hole weekends in a row before going to Bolton for the UK Open. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 13:22 |
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Qualified for the UK Open Final 3-6 June, Reebok Stadium Bolton |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:00 |
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I'm one out of a total of 96 professional players who have qualified for the Sky Sports-televised UK Open Finals, which will be held at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton from June 3-6.
The top 32 players enter the UK Open, nicknamed 'The FA Cup of Darts' at the Third Round stage on Friday June 4.
However, the tournament unique for the free draw format which means top players can be drawn together at any stage begins on Thursday June 3 with the Preliminary Round, First Round and Second Round. The Preliminary and First Rounds feature the players ranked from 65-96 in the UK Open Order of Merit, who are joined by the 32 Rileys Amateur Qualifiers and ten BDO County representatives. The Second Round will feature the First Round's 32 winners alongside the players ranked from 33-64 in the UK Open Order of Merit, who include 2004 UK Open champion Roland Scholten, Wayne Mardle, Peter Manley and the totesport.com Players Championship winner Paul Nicholson. The 96 professionals are joined in the UK Open by 32 Rileys Amateur Qualifiers, who have won through knockout qualifiers held in Rileys Darts Zones around the UK, and the BDO County representatives. The draw for the Preliminary Round, First Round Second Round will be made on Thursday May 13 and published at http://www.pdc.tv/. The Third Round draw will be made at the close of play in the Second Round on Thursday June 3 in Bolton. Tickets for the UK Open cost from 20 and are available by calling 0844 871 2932 or by visiting the Reebok Stadium Box.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 13:23 |
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