The next poker event I will play is the Euregio Poker Challenge 2010 in Venlo, The Netherlands. It's from September 23 till 26. I will play all events.
July
The ViP Days Holiday edition in Venlo is over. I played the €330 Freeze Out, the main event, and the €110 FO. None of them with a money result. Details and photos are available.
No luck at the main event, nor at the €330 bounty although I got 2 bounty's. Details and photos about the 4 days at the Twente Classics are HERE. Conclusion: a great week with my best result ever! WOW
May
I became 2nd at the €110 rebuy during the Twente Classics. An event I hadn't even planned to play! More details soon. For now it's a quick shower and off to play the main event.
May
On May 12th I'll be playing the Twente Classics team event with Samir Haddad. Samir is someone I met during the home games. He will take care of the Omaha part. I'm also playing the main event on May 14th. You can follow the live report and/or the live stream on www.pokercity.nl. More info about me on this website or on Twitter.
April
I've added a link to my Twitter account. It's the bird right-top.
April
Monday and Thursday I used to play poker at HC Utrecht and Leeuwarden but I've decided to stop that. The reason is their silly clothing rules. Every time I entered the casino I felt like I criminal, and that all because I'm wearing a jacket with a hood! So that's another 3 visitors gone for Thursday, and at least one for Monday/Sunday. Apparently they rather spent their money on restyling their website than making tickets available for every tournament through the website. I've said it before: HC is a company that wants to be something that they are not, and never will be. It's a matter of time before they will lose their monopoly, and will close down. A real shame for the hard working people on the floor!
March
I have collected so much music through the years, that I just have to sell some. If you're interested then check out my sales list.
March
Another sick beat, and it looks like by bad run of last year is back. Tonight the money went in with 7♣9♣ against 8♦9♦ on a flop 8♣T♣J♠. So my opponent had 2% change to win (20% to tie). But then runner J♥ and J♦ came! Unbelievable.
March
I will not play in Venlo during the VIP-Days. I'm not completely satisfied with my current poker playing (and luck ), so playing there is probably just a waste of money. For now I will keep playing on Monday evening in HC Utrecht, and some home games during the rest of the week.
February
After running bad for almost 2 months, the last 2 weeks went much better in poker. Last night I finally made some money when I ended 5th on the Monday night in Utrecht.
January
Satellite for the main event of the DOM Classics. It wasn't meant to be. With no rebuys and one add-on, I went to the dinner break with a 20K stack. But after dinner nothing went right anymore. I lost with AK from TT, and then with AK from 78. After that I called some other all-in's but somehow everything went wrong. So finally after winning some coinflips, I went all-in and lost. Oh well. At least the cash table brought me some 700+ Euro.
January
I ended #8 in the DOM Classics, Utrecht €250 Texas Hold'em, No Limit event! At the end my 99 didn't hold up against my opponent's AQ. A shame but being #8 in a field of 219 players and earning 1250 Euro is not too bad.
January
I ended 5th at the Pokerranking final table of the Monday evening. It was an interesting match. I entered as 10th in chip stack but managed to hold-on until my A4 ran into A3 with a 3 on the turn. A shame but before my AQ vs AK made a split pot so no complaints here. I went home with 910 Euro.
January
I performed in Theatre de Enck in Oirschot with Ron Boots, Harold & Eric van der Heijden, FD Projekt and Bas Broekhuis. It was a 2+ hours concert! Click on the YouTube logo to watch the video on Youtube.
I played the strangest hand ever. It happened on Full Tilt Poker. Click on the picture right and see for yourself!
January
I've become #136 in the Unibet PokerCity Player of the Year 2009. Sounds good, but I hope that 2010 is MUCH better.
January
I WISH EVERYBODY A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
2009
December
I played for 3 days during the ViP Days X-Mas Edition in Venlo. Every day there was a NLHE freeze out event.
November
Today I played the €800 NL Holdem FO poker event at the MCOP in Amsterdam. It lasted about an hour. I had K♠K♣. The flop was 6♣8♥J♠, the turn K♥ and the river a 5♥ ~ My opponent had 9♥T♥ ugh
October
I went out as 70th in the Dutch Open 2009 Poker tournament. I'm sure I could have made it to day two as on of the 54 players, but my health didn't allow it. In the morning I was already in great doubt whether to go or not, and several times during the day I wondered what I was doing there. I had a fever, was noxious, my stomach ached and I could hardly keep my eyes open at the beginning. During the dinner break I even slept for an hour in my car. So after almost 10 hours I decided to gamble: either I got a big stack and come back the day after or I would go home. I didn't want to make the trip again for maybe an hour of poker. So with KT I went all-in on a board of QJ2. The turn was a T and the river a K but unfortunately my opponent had AA and made a straight. Here are the extracts of the live report.
October
On October 17th we held our annual E-Live music festival in Oirschot. Artists were Spyra, Stephan Whitlan, Brendan Pollard and Faralley. Around 250 visitors attended. The day went smooth and relaxed. Reactions and photos can be found on the E-Live website
October
Last Sunday, October 4th, I played a satellite for the €1500 MCOP in Amsterdam. The satellite ended nasty when all the money went in on the flop when my 9T flopped 2 pair on a 9T2 board against my openent's KK. The turn was a J but the river was an ugly 2 which meant the end for me. A real shame.
I will definitively participate in the Dutch Open in Rotterdam on October 23th.
PokerCity does a live report of all Holland Casino Series of Poker tournaments. There's a leaderboard on which I'm currently #48.
September
Last night I ended 2nd in the live forum tournament of Pokercity.nl. The tournament was held in Amsterdam and it was great fun! You can view some pictures here or you can read a compilation on this website. On Youtube is a 5 mins movie about the event.
September
No success on my first day. I ended 70th. Not much to tell about it: I got very few decent hands so it ended with a coinflip; my JA against 44.
The second day went even worse. I was eliminated after 50 minutes when I pushed all-in and my AK lost the coinflip against my opponent's JJ.
In the main event I doubled quite early but lost almost all my stack with 2 pair against a straight. After that I was pretty short and couldn't do much more so eventually I was all-in and lost.
And on Sunday, in the bounty tournament, the cards also didn't fell my way. I ended around place 50.
Nevertheless: the time my wife and I spent here in Valkenburg was very enjoyable. I had a lot of fun at the cash tables, which also (almost) paid for the complete trip.
Here are some excerpts from the live report of pokercity.nl
September
I'm playing all events of the Euregio Poker Challenge in Valkenburg. It starts on September 17th with a €100 NLH freeze-out and a day later with a €200 NLH freeze-Out.
Saturday the 19th is day one of the €500 NLH freeze-out main event, and on Sunday there's a €200 NLH bounty.
Maybe I see you there.
August
The €440 bounty wasn't a success either. I was eliminated after 2 hours of playing. I rivered 2 pair but my opponent a straight.
Here are some excerpts from the live report of pokercity.nl
August
I was knocked out of the main event quite early. With 9♦T♦ I put the rest of my chips in against A♥3♠ on a board of 4♥5♥6♥T♠. I was a 60% favorite but when the A♠ hit the river I was busted.
August
I ended 66th in the NLH €110 rebuy of the Summer Classics 2009. Although I was an almost 70% favorite unfortunately my hand K♣J♠ did not held up on a flop of A♠K♦2♠ against 5♠8♠. When I pushed all-in on the flop my opponent felt committed enough to call after which a 4♠ appeared on the turn.
August
I ended 16th in the NLH freeze-out €330 of the Summer Classics 2009 and took home €684. Not bad but I sure wished my A8 would have won from my opponents QT. If it would then I would have had a stack of around 40K, and a good change at the final table.
July
Today, July 26th, I managed to win a ticket for the main event of the Summer Classics in Utrecht so I will definitively participate on August 23rd in the €330 Hold'em, No Limit, FO; on August 26th in the €110 rebuy Hold'em; and on the 28th of August in the main event.
July
Rob Hartemink has created another YouTube movie with music from my song "Travel" from the "Slices of Time" cd.
You can watch it too on YouTube or download it as an FLV file so you can watch it anytime.
July
A new review of my cd "If one door closes..." is added. This time from Phil Derby / Electroambient Space.
June
I played poker at the VIP days in Venlo, The Netherlands. Unfortunately without success. The first day I got an early suck-out, and during the second day and the main event I was pretty much card-dead. A little frustrated I decided to go all-in with AQ, only to be called by someone with AK.
May
On May 29th 2009 I participated in the main event of the North Sea Poker Classics in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. I ended 5th. That's my best result, and highest cash, in a major event up to now.
April
On April 11th Ron Boots and I hosted the E-Day 2009 festival. Main act was John Dyson, supporting acts were Gert Emmens and F.D. Project. The festival was held in Theater De Enck in Oirschot, The Netherlands and the day was a big success. Photos and reactions are available on the E-Day website.
Thomas Broich made a video impression of the day including concert fragments and interviews with Gert Emmens, John Dyson, Ron Boots and more. You can find it at www.music-transformation.de and you can see and hear me around 6:35 in part 1.
March
A new review on "If one door opens.." is added. This time from Matt Howarth of Sonic Curiosity.
Also added is the complete broadcast of Radio Ridderkerk of early March, and some photos.
On March 6 I was interviewed by Tim van Veen on Radio Ridderkerk.
The complete broadcast is available.
February
A English translation of the Sylvain Lupari interview is added.
February
A fan of mine, Rob Hartemink, has created a YouTube movie containing a lot of Eire photos. For the background music he choose the track "Eire" from my cd "Slices of Time". I must say that I really like it.
You can watch it too on YouTube or download it as an FLV file so you can watch it anytime.
February
Go to www.schallwelle-preis.de if you like to vote for my cd "If one door opens" or for me as artist. At the bottom of the first page is a button called die Hörerwahl, click on that and then, on the next page, click on I like to vote. Thanks for your support.
January
Another review is added. This time from Sylvain Lupari from the Guts Of Darkness website. It's in French but my cd got 5 out of 6 stars.
January
I had not much luck during the DOM Classics. I participated in the 440 no-limit freeze-out and lost 2 essential hands. AQ vs A9 and AKs in a 3-way pot against A2o and K5o. So I ended somewhere around place 100 in a 218 players field.
2008
December
I finished the website of Rolf Slotboom. Rolf is one of Hollands best players, and beside that a very nice guy, so it was a pleasure to design a new website for him. Do visit his website if you're into poker because the website contains a lot of interesting articles and book reviews.
November
I appear (twice, around 1:08 and 1:12) in the promo leader for the 2009 poker 'DOM Classics' championships.
October
I've added an rss feed feed to my website (see right top). Subscribe to it and you will be informed automatically when something changes.
October
I decided to offer two free downloads for the people that buy my new cd "If One Door Closes" from Groove Unlimited.
The first track is an alternate version of the track "The Sun Shines, The World Smiles". It has a complete different beginning. Track 2 is a highly energetic, live version of "Surfacing from Beyond". It was performed by James Clent and me in Essen, Germany on January 26 1998.
October
I'm the god of hellfire and I bring you... Who doesn't know these words from the song FIRE of Arthur Brown? Well, yesterday, during our yearly E-Live festival, I met Arthur. A very nice man with still a great voice.
October
It's now October 10th and I've just opened my new website. There's still some work to be done but 95% is finished and at least I can get some feedback from the visitors.
What's NOT complete (yet), is the On stage webpage. We're still searching for old photos and stories. The rest of the website should be ok. However if you do find errors I would appreciate it if you would let me know through Contact Kees. Thanks for reading!
September
My new cd If One Door Closes is finished. The music was already finished but I wanted to add several effects to make the complete cd 'flow' like a total. I'm very content with the end result.
August
I've participated in the poker tournament SUMMER CLASSICS in Holland Casino, Utrecht. I didn't end up in the money but I did reach the bubble once. Courtesy of pokercity.nl there's a short movie about the event in which you can also see me (0:18, 0:38 and 0:42).
April
Ron Boots, Harold van der Heijden, Henri Peters and I perform live during the E-Day 2008 festival. A short (14secs) poor quality clip is available. Main act was Tangerine Dream. On the photo from left to right: Kees, Henri, Ron. Photo by: Andre Stooker
2007
December
Ron Boots and I travelled to Vienna to discuss with Edgar Froese and his wife Bianca a performance on E-Day 2008. It was a very pleasant meeting and we think it will work out. We're extremely proud of this as Tangerine Dream is the top of the line for us.
Edgar and Bianca
Ron phoning home
October
A second track for the new 2008 album is finished. Rough groundwork for a third track is done.
October
Some photos taken during E-Live 2007.
Ian Boddy, Kees, Mark Shreeve
Kees, Erik Wollo, Bert Strolenberg
July
I finished the first track for my new album which is scheduled for 2008. The provisionary title for the new album is 'If one door closes, another one opens'. The groundwork for a second track is done.
February
Sad news. We have to stop with E-dition magazine. On the one hand I'm glad because it took so much time of my time, but on the other hand I'm very sad that there's no market for it.
Oh well, we tried. And we have 16 magazines with 16 unique cds as a legacy.
2006
November
I've given a lot of my archive music (tapes and cassettes) to Ron Boots. He will check if it contains music that's suited for release.
July
I composed a complete new solo track called 'Branch Hopping'. It's for the sampler Analogy vol.2 which will be released in September. Beside this track I'm also working on some other new songs. Your track on ANALOGY v.2 is a wonderful piece of music. It has a nice melody to it with a great mixture of analog sounds! Thanks for sharing that piece of music! (Craig Padilla)
2005
June
Together with Harold van der Heijden and Ron Boots I did some live performances on June 11 en 12th during the Fanta Magic Festival in Nieuwegein in The Netherlands. During that weekend a special cd-r was released called Fanta Magic 2005. The cd-r contains 2 live versions of released tracks but also 5 new tracks, all music from Ron Boots.
Photo by: Jaska Aerts
May
After many years I finally composed a complete new song! It's called 'Grey Keys' and it's a track for the upcoming sampler CD Analogy vol.1. The track is made with a few analog synths because that's the 'theme' of the compilation. Here's a reaction: The track is really a smooth cool ride. It has a great groove that I want to float on forever. Really good minimalism is about balancing weaving new elements into the steady hypnotic ones and you've done that here very nicely. The drums were very well done... somewhere between Jarre accessibile tones and Schulzian organic rhythm qualities... and I am notoriously hard to please when it comes to drum machines in EM. I enjoy the counterpoint / polyrhythms in the bubbling sequence.
Well done! (Paul Ellis)
February
I did an interview with Karl Bartos (ex-Kraftwerk) for E-dition Magazine. It was great to meet an ex-member of one of my favorite bands. Karl is a very nice guy and we talked for hours about everything and nothing. Photo by: Menno Von Brucken Fock
2004
October
E-Live 2004 took place on Saturday, October 9th. Performing artists were a.o. Grosskopf, Baltes, Heilhecker.
2003
December
I've been very busy with a new magazine that we're gonna start. The name of the magazine is E-dition and it's the follow-up to the Dutch KLEM magazine. Every E-dition magazine comes with a free CD. Here's a photo with some of the writers.
From Left to Right: Ron Boots, Wouter Bessels, Luuk Molenaar, Menno Von Brucken Fock, Paul Rijkens, Andre de Waal, Kees Aerts.
Ron Boots found an unreleased track from me and persuaded me to put it on the cd. The title of the song is 'Undelivered Delivery' and I guess it's one the last pre-midi songs that I made. The equipment used on the track is: MC-202 (2x). Korg Monopoly, Boss effect, TR-808, TB-303 and Realistic.
June
Ron and I composed a new song for an upcoming sampler. And I made a serie of jingles for the US radio program 'Sound Explorer' of Wade Gordon.
2002
September
Here I am with Michel Huygen (Neuronium) during E-Live 2002.
August
On the 31st of August I visited the studio of Klaus Schulze.
March
The music of the January concert in Essen is released on Livelines. The cd contains 45 minutes of new and 20+ minutes of old/reworked material.
Here a promo photo with Ron and Harold.
March
Ron and I have composed two new songs. The first one is called 'Cool Runnings' and will appear on the Schallwende #4 sampler of July 2002. The second track is for the 2-cd that comes with Sequences #27 magazine of September 2002. Here are some reviews from German listeners: Was für ein Opener! Mr. Bombastic, Ron Boots und seine Kumpanen stürzen sich mit Volldampf in den vierten Teil der Schallplatten-Serie. Wieder mal bestätigt sich: Ron Boots ist ein Garant für stimmungsvolle Live-Konzerte und ganz nebenbei gesagt: die EM-Szene ist nie und nimmer tot! (Will Lücken)
Nachdem ich die Platte nummer 4 erhalten habe, dreht sich nur noch diese im Laufwerk. - Es ist mir wirklich eine Ehre, neben Ron Boots & Friends und den anderen namhaften Artisten auf dieser Scheibe vertreten zu sein! Super Collection von ganz super Musik ...
... das habt ihr alle wirklich fein ausgesucht! (Bernhard Kretz)
Die spinnen, die Holländer. Für die dem EM-Fanzine 'Schalldruck' (Nr.16, Juli 2002) gratis beigelegte, ausschließlich bislang unveröffentlichte Tracks enthaltene Compilation haben Ron Boots & Friends (Kees Aerts: synths, perc.; Harold van der Heijden: dr.) eine Nummer spendiert, die sich jeder rational kalkulierende Artist für ein eigenes Album aufgespart hätte: ein live eingespieltes Trance-Electronical (Track 1, 'Cool Runnings', 7:35) von solch mitreißendem Drive, dass man fürchtet, der Rest der Scheibe werde dieses Niveau nie und nimmer halten können. (Albrecht Piltz aus: KEYBOARDS 11/02, electrodrom)
January
My first solo album Slices of Time is remastered by Ron Boots and re-released. The annoying mistakes on the cover are also corrected. The remastered CD print is black instead of red, and the inlaycard contains the text 'remastered in 2002'.
January
On the 26th of January I performed live in Essen, Germany with Ron Boots and Harold van der Heijden during the Schallwende elections. We played for more than 2 hours. Here are some photos and reactions.
2001
March
The promo version of TRACKS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is released, and on CD #2 you can find my track.
2000
November
I have finished a track for the upcoming book TRACKS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (about E-music) with accompanying CD's. The track is called 'Put me down Scotty'.
September
Ron Boots and I have made a track for the sampler WORLD WIDE KIND which will be released next month.
July
During the Summer Space Party in Essen, Germany on July 22, Ron and Harold van der Heijden and I perform a new song. This song is called 'Giants of once before' and it will be released on Ron's solo cd Close, but not touching.
April
The track "Stranger" from the album Joie de Vivre, on which I do the vocoder voices, has become "3rd best song of 1999" in the Schwingungen Awards from Winfrid Trenkler.
1999
October
Ron, Eric, Harold and I performed live on October 30 in Huizen, the Netherlands during a promotional festival of Groove Unlimited and Quantum.
August
On the 7th Ron and I took part in a jam session during the Schallwende Barbecue in Germany.
April
A large portion of the Cologne gig is released on the cd Joie de Vivre. Joie de Vivre is French and means JOY OF LIFE (read: the joy of performing live).
March
Together with Ron Boots, Eric and Harold van der Heijden, I perform live in Cologne, Germany during the CEOS festival.
1998
October
At E-Live we release a 2-track limited cd-single E-Live '98 which contains an improvisation song 'Valö by Night' from our Sweden concert and an improvisation song After the Stripper from a concert at a private party organized by Cees Wensveen.
July
James Clent and I finish a new song for the cd Four, the Truth. It's called 'Straight Ahead'.
June
A limited edition cd-r becomes available with the music from the Sweden concert. Originally intended as a 'souvenir' for the fans that intended but due to popular demand this cd-r is still available as BAH! Live in Sweden.
June
After a long trip I perform live on June 1st with Ron Boots and Harold van der Heijden in Sweden on the island Valö.
April
We had a stall at the Schwingungen Wahl, organized by Winfrid Trenkler, in Duisburg, Germany on April 25th. We came with John Dyson because he had won a price.
January
On January 26 I performed life during the Schallwende Awards in Essen, Germany together with my good friend James Clent. On that day I'm also rewarded with two prices. I become second in the category Best CD Cover and second in the category Best Newcomer.
1997
November
Part 3 in the Truth series is released. It's called The Truth is Twisted. and I have co-composed three tracks on it. With Ron Boots 'The Sensation of the Vortex', with Harold van der Heijden'Asylum' and with Alpha Wave Movement'Alien Artifacts of Ice'.
The follow-up to Out there lies the Truth is released. The cd is called Truth or Dare, and I have co-composed three tracks on it. With Airsculpture'Crossing the Road (Running Frog)', with James Clent'Surfacing from Beyond' and with Ron Boots'The Silence of the Scream'.
Kees with the guys from Airsculpture. Adrian, Kees, Pete, John (from left to right).
1995
December
Ron and I become partners in Groove Unlimited (at that time CUE Records NL).
Welcome
Details and photos about the 4 days at the Twente Classics are 
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), so playing there is probably just a waste of money. For now I will keep playing on Monday evening in HC Utrecht, and some home games during the rest of the week.
in Holland Casino, Utrecht. I didn't end up in the money but I did reach the bubble
Photo by: Andre Stooker
Edgar and Bianca
Ron phoning home
Ian Boddy, Kees, Mark Shreeve
Kees, Erik Wollo, Bert Strolenberg
Photo by: Jaska Aerts
Photo by: Menno Von Brucken Fock
From Left to Right: Ron Boots, Wouter Bessels, Luuk Molenaar, Menno Von Brucken Fock, Paul Rijkens, Andre de Waal, Kees Aerts.
Kees with the guys from Airsculpture. Adrian, Kees, Pete, John (from left to right).
