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The Master Classics of Poker Main Event started yesterday in Amsterdam, with Noah Boeken emerging at the end of the day to lead a packed international field.
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Poker Open × Search for: Noah Boeken Netherlands Carreer Earnings. Twitter Youtube Facebook Instagram ©2020 Poker. Noah Boeken (Dutch pronunciation: ˈbukən; born 6 January 1981) is a Dutch professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player.Before becoming a professional poker player, Boeken was a professional Mag.
The Master Classics of Poker Main Event started yesterday in Amsterdam, with Noah Boeken emerging at the end of the day to lead a packed international field.
The Master Classics of Poker is Europe´s longest established live poker series, and yesterday hundreds of local Dutch players and international poker stars entered the MCOP Main Event. At the close of play, Noah Boeken – who is both a local Dutch player and an international poker star – was ahead of the 200 players who survived Day 1.
Boeken bagged and tagged 184,100 chips after eight levels of play after having doubled up early and then taken three streets of value from compatriot Raoul Refos when his A♣ 10♥ found an Ace on the flop and Refos missed his Club flush draw. Boeken also busted Ana Marquez out of the tournament after she had re-entered for a second time.
Crazy Start to the Day 1
With the MCOP Main Event offering an unlimited number of re-entries during Day 1, the play was pretty loose throughout. The start of the event was delayed for 30 minutes while a series of one-hand satellites took place, and the craziness of putting €400 on the turn of a card to win a seat in the Main Event continued into the early hands of Level 1.
Pascal Vos flopped trip Sixes in the very first hand of the tournament to crack an opponent´s pocket Aces, and double up after the opponent had limped in from late position, and November Niner Michiel Brummelhuis got off to a poor start when allowing Rens Feenstra to take three streets of value from him with a flopped pair of Kings.
Re-Entries All Day Long
Brummelhuis was the most high-profile player to bust from the tournament and re-enter the €4,000 buy-in MCOP Main Event (he actually fired three bullets), and other players who had to dig a little deeper in their pockets during the day included two former EPT London Main Event winners Robin Ylitalo and Ruben Visser and runner-up in the UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event Fatima Moreira de Melo.
Other players who fired two bullets but failed to survive to the end of the day included PokerStars sponsored pros Liv Boeree and Lex Veldhuis, and while it may be possible to buy-in once again before play re-commences at the Casino Holland in Amsterdam, a number of players are commenting that the field is of such high quality that it may not be worth their while to get involved again with a stack two-thirds of the average (43,350 chips).
Still Counting the Entries before Prize Money Determined
Although it is known that 289 individual players entered the Master Classics of Poker Main Event, organizers are still counting up the re-entries to work out how many players will cash in the event and for how much. It is already assured that the prize fund will top the €1 million mark, and those looking to get a lion´s share of it include:-
| # | MCOP Main Event Day 1 | Chips |
| 1 | Noah Boeken | 184,100 |
| 2 | Robert Soogea | 163,200 |
| 3 | Pascal Vos | 148,500 |
| 4 | Charlie Combes | 144,200 |
| 5 | Andrew Chen | 143,900 |
| 6 | Daniel Reijmer | 124,300 |
| 7 | Jorn Walthaus | 117,000 |
| 8 | Thijmen Stocker | 115,200 |
| 9 | Erik van der Berg | 111,600 |
| 10 | Jan Jansma | 107,600 |
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| Noah Boeken | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Exclusive, Towley88 |
| Residence | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Born | 6 January 1981 (age 39) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 9 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 96th, 2009 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | 1 |
| Final table(s) | 2 |
| Money finish(es) | 6 |
Noah Boeken (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbukən]; born 6 January 1981) is a Dutch professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player.
Magic: The Gathering career[edit]
Before becoming a professional poker player, Boeken was a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He started playing the game when he some kids with Magic cards at his school. He started collecting and eventually learned how to play. He found that he could beat people who had been playing for years and became a professional.
Some of Boeken's notable results include:
- 1997 Pro Tour Chicago - 15th place
- Pro Tour Mainz - 32nd place
- GP Copenhagen - 3rd place
- 2000 European Championship - Champion - $11,500
After his early success in his Magic: The Gathering career, he started playing poker.[1]
Poker career[edit]
Like fellow Magic player David Williams, Boeken credits professional poker player Marcel Lüske as his mentor.
Early career[edit]
Boeken's first major finish in the money was at the 2003 Master Classics of Poker, where he finished 4th in the €200 no limithold'em event. Eight months later, he played in the $10,000 no limit hold'em championship of Festa al Lago II in Las Vegas, Nevada where he again cashed.
European Poker Tour[edit]
In October 2004, both Boeken and Lüske made the final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in London won by professional John Shipley. Boeken made a second EPT final table in January 2005 at the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen where he defeated professional and Hendon Mob member Ram Vaswani in the final heads-up confrontation. Boeken has cashed six times at the EPT and made two final tables.
World Series of Poker[edit]
Boeken attended the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 2005 and cashed twice, including at the final table of the $2,500 limit hold'em event. He finished 96th out of 6,494 total entries in the Main Event at the 2009 World Series of Poker.
British Poker Open[edit]
Boeken won the 2006 British Poker Open beating a strong field, which included Gus Hansen, and collecting 50,000 GBP.
Poker winnings[edit]
As of 2011, Boeken's total live tournament winnings exceed $1,200,000.[2]
Other poker ventures[edit]
Boeken plays online poker as Exclusive at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Until the start of February 2012, he was a member of the Team PokerStars group of sponsored players.
In 2007, Boeken and Lüske started a television show called Veronica Poker where famous Dutch people learned the game of poker from them. Eventually the famous people had to play against each other, with the winner invited to an important tournament in Las Vegas. A second television show with Boeken and Luske started in February 2007. The show is called Poker Kings NL and airs on the Tien channel. The show follows both Boeken and Lüske while they travel around the world, attending poker tournaments.
Notes[edit]
- ^'Player Profile: Noah Boeken'.
- ^'Noah Boeken's profile on The Hendon Mob'. The Hendon Mob Poker Database.
External links[edit]
| Preceded by Nicolai Herzog | Magic European Champion 2000 | Succeeded by Eivind Nitter |