{"id":215270,"date":"2015-11-25T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215270"},"modified":"2015-11-25T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:00:50","slug":"turkey-shoot-open-billiards-tournament-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/turkey-shoot-open-billiards-tournament-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Turkey Shoot\u2019 open billiards tournament tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkey Shoot 8-Ball billiards tournament will be held at 8pm tonight at the Jokers Bar &amp; Restaurant in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>Registration starts at 7pm with a $10 entrance fee for the double-elimination tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is open to all billiards players on Saipan, whether they are members of teams seeing action in the Tuesday and Thursday leagues of the Saipan Billiards Association.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is also open to all skill levels, from beginners who are hoping to experience playing in a tournament to veterans, who are regulars of both leagues organized by the SBA.<\/p>\n<p>A cash prize, trophy, and a turkey await the lucky winner in time for tomorrow\u2019s Thanksgiving Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Amusement Inc. is organizing the tournament and supported in part by Jokers Bar, which also hosts the weekly darts and billiards blind draw tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, SBA and Saipan Electronic Darts Association secretary Warlee Ellama will be moving the weekly darts and billiards blind draw tournaments held every Wednesday to Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ellama said they don\u2019t want the weekly tournaments to overlap with SEDA\u2019s regular Winter\/Spring season that is set to open on Monday, Nov. 30, in various bars on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The Masters and A divisions will kick off the games in SEDA\u2019s Winter\/Spring Season on Monday followed by matches in the Tuesday B; Ladies, Chichirika, and Kingfisher (Wednesday); and Fanihi and Flame Tree (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>Ellama added that they also wanted a different bar to host both the weekly darts and billiards tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Ellama at 2344397 or 2855967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkey Shoot 8-Ball billiards tournament will be held at 8pm tonight at the Jokers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8201,1204,247,697],"class_list":["post-215270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-jokers-bar-restaurant","tag-sba","tag-seda","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}