Sorry Duintje, I'm using your account 'cause it was logged on
So, this is mjantti here, not Duintje.
Yes, first straight pool match was against Storm, I decided to freeze him up with tight safety play and it worked, we didn't have high runs. Unfortunately I wasn't in stroke and couldn't capitalize from Tom's mistakes

Lost 125-61.
Then with some miserable play, but ok shots I beat a Croatian player and then with a tough draw faced Nick in the loser side. He ran 84 in the start and I managed to run only 14 and played safe and froze the cueball to the stack but got a 4-ball combo from there. I got another chance when Nick scratched again, but couldn't make a long shot...
In 8-ball I had a terrible start, played absolutely horrible against a guy from Lithuania and lost 8-6. I had one 8-ball which went from the jaws to another pocket and when leading 6-5 I made my ball and kissed the 8 in...

Proceeded to suck, and lost 8-6. Then I got myselft together and beat a former EC-medalist from Luxembourg 8-5 and then had another tough draw to face Oliver Ortmann in the loser side. He won the lag and ran 3, I ran one after his dry break and in the next one tried to free my ball near the rail, got double kissed and had to slow roll a ball in the middle, table rolled the cueball off and Oliver proceeded to run from 3-1 to 6-1. Then after his dry break I ran to 6-4 and was running out that rack and had to play on a difficult penultimate ball shot near the short rail, had to jack up and shoot a very fine soft stroke into far corner with almost halfball cut and missed that and match to Ortmann 8-4. Had only 3 innings at the table... Actually, I felt like I could've beaten him, but missed that single ball if the other ball doesn't count when the cueball rolled off... And Oliver didn't miss a single ball
http://new.europeanpoolchampionships.com/playerprofile.asp?playerid=592
Ok, looking forward the 9-ball matches tomorrow ! Now, that I'm in stroke, I hope to win at least a couple of matches... these players are annoying, they just keep running out rack after rack after rack after....
Marcus Chamat ran earlier a match out against a Brit player with a 7-pack after trailing 3-1... result was 8-3 to Chamat
-Mikko aka mjantti