{"id":86180,"date":"2004-12-05T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a18b077f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-12-05T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T05:31:00","slug":"a18b0790-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a18b0790-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to $1K Open 9-Ball Tournament starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Pool Bar\u2019s $1,000 Open 9-Ball Tournament will kick off two weeks from now on the weekend of Dec. 18 and 19 from 7pm to 2am.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Zheng Jian Qing is putting up one of the biggest cash prizes for a billiard tournament this side of the Marianas chain in the two-day pool extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng said the competition would only be open to the first 32 players that sign up. The 9-ball event will be a single-elimination, race-to-seven wins series.<\/p>\n<p>The first night of the tournament will be played to determine the quarterfinalists. The Top 8, meanwhile, will duke it out on the second day of competition. <\/p>\n<p>The first three placers then get to divide the $1,000 pot. The second runner-up gets to line his pockets with $200, the runner-up goes home with $300, while the champion bags the $500 grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>Entry fee for the $1,000 billiard event is $30 per person and pairings will be done through a draw, which date will be announced days before the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Top Pool Bar is one of the newest and more spacious billiard venues in town. It boasts of seven 9-1\/2-by-5-foot tables usually found in professional tournaments abroad.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Top Pool Bar $1,000 Open 9-Ball Tournament, please call 233-6999 and look for Zheng or Velma Fleming. Zheng can also be reached on his mobile phone 287-7676.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Pool Bar\u2019s $1,000 Open 9-Ball Tournament will kick off two weeks from now on the weekend of Dec. 18 and 19 from 7pm to 2am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86180","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=86180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}