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Round Two 8-ball kicks off tonight
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Posted on Jun 01 2005
The immensely popular Thursday night 8-ball pool competition returns to Round Two Bar and Grill tonight starting at 8pm.
The billiards competition at the Garapan watering hole used to be one of the most popular pool tournaments on island but has suffered through poor attendance soon after Round Two’s original owner Don Pangelinan and his wife left for the U.S. mainland.
New owners Don and Nenita Bufton said they are happy to bring back the weeknight classic and hope the still unnamed billiards tournament would return to the prominence it once enjoyed.
“We hope to continue on and add to this billiards tradition at Round Two. There have been a lot of inquiries for us to hold the Thursday 8-ball competition again,” said Nenita Bufton. “A lot of players miss the tournament and I also believe that as the new owners of the landmark sports bar, it’s also our responsibility to keep this pool tournament.”
She said she and her husband are still in negotiations with a Saipan beverage company to sponsor the tournament and said if talks bear fruit, the event will adopt the name of products being sold by the sponsor.
Bufton said entry fee for the invitational 8-ball tournament is $10 and the 16 slots up for grabs would come in a first come, first serve basis.
Winner of the tournament will bag a weekly championship trophy and a cash prize, while runner-up and third place will not go home empty handed, as gift items and a cash prizes also await them.
For more information on Round Two’s still unnamed Thursday 8-ball invitational tournament, call 234-6930. (Mark Rabago)
