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Born: 20-04-1982
Netherlands
When I was 9 years old I started playing billiards. My father is billiard trainer and he teached me everything about billiards.
When I was 13 years old a began playing black-ball on a six-foot table. This is very well known in my place. After a while I was invited for the dutch team for black-ball and I was allowed to go to the European Championships. The EC was played on 7-foot tables instead of 6-foot. So we decided to train on a 9-foot table. When I first touched this table I knew I wanted to play on that table always.
The first tournament I played was Center Pocket open in 2001, since that tournament I never stopped playing the 9-foot table. I still play 6-foot competition.
In 2004 I was selected for the Dutch team and I was allowed to play the EC 9-foot in Prague. I got into the 9th place. It was a great experience and much better then the EC blackball.
In 2006 I got my first bronze medal at 8-ball EC.
In 2009 I turned into pro in the USA, so in 2010 I'm allowed to play all pro-tournaments in the USA.