UK 8 Ball
Topic: does the puff hurt your game?

We will find out!

Club 8 Amsterdam organises the Amsterdam (D)Open on may 17th and 18th.

Entry Fee: € 30. incl. party package, satisfactory quantity of Dutch Hydro Culture!
8-ball
round robin
guaranteed prize money:
€ 1000    1st
€ 500    2nd
€ 250    3rd/4th
€ 100    5/8th
€ 60    9/16th
€ 40    17/32nd

Always a fun place! Will you be having music in the evenings too?

im up for it if anyone else is lets go

music of course, fun and action, on and off the pooltable will be the goal of the tournament, of course combined with a great deal of enlightning enhalation

be funny watchin everyone play whilst bein stoned

Hi Mr/Miss Amsterdamopen,

Could you give us a few more details please? Is there a limit on entries and how do we confirm entry? What would the start time on the first day be (thinking of flights)? Are there any reasonable and cheap hotels near to the club?

Thanks in advance.

Ditto to that, be good to know the entry restrictions etc... Sounds like a good laugh definately up for this one!

Cheers,

James.

What's the finish time on the Sunday?

we are looking to finish sunday around 6PM. so a return flight at 9 will definitely get you the 1st prize and then home.

can we have some more info on like how to enter and pay and stuff and what were playing (world rules? 8-Ball)

cheers dean

Yes, the rumours are true…Club 8 Amsterdam is doing it again.
This year the main event will be played in a mist of marihuana smoke!
It’s going to be
The Green House seeds/Gijs van Helmond Tribute Amsterdam (D)open 2008
When? How?
Saturday the 17th of May and Sunday the 18th of May Club 8 Amsterdam will host this “never shown before” Pool billiards event from 9 AM till 3 AM. All day Saturday participants will play the group stages in a round-robin format, on Sunday the remaining 64 players will battle it out in a single knock-out format. The eliminated players can knock themselves out in side-events. The entry fee is € 30, - only, including a ‘Hydro’-party-package. The game is 8-ball! € 3800 guaranteed prizemoney, more then 128 entries…more prizemoney!
Why?
3 secondary reasons:
In most coffeeshops, a pooltable can be found and it is there that pool was first played in Amsterdam. The coffeeshops competed against each other and organised the first tournaments. With the maturing of pool as a sport, competitive pool in Amsterdam has grown out of the coffee shop culture and with this event we want to relive the old-school experience. It will be a lot of fun with the greatest and funniest people; wich is exactly the reason of Club 8’s existence.
Second of all, the Dutch sports committee has put Marihuana on the list of illegal stimulating substances and started checking the “official” tournament participants on substance abuse. We all know that those who can still play good when stoned should be rewarded, not punished.
Third of all, all Dutch café’s are supposed to be smoke free as from the 1st of June or so the right wing Christian government has decided is good for us. Club 8 strongly disagrees!
What to expect?
Round up at Friday from 6 pm to 23 pm, get your badge and a goody bag full of surprises amongst wich the essentials to stick to the rules of the tournament: Not allowed to play sober! You also get the schedule, so you know what time you’re expected to play the next Day.
Saturday from 8.30 to 9.30 coffee, latecomers and consumption of the first tokens, play commences at 9.30, till late!!! Be sure that Club 8 will provide entertainment throughout the weekend if you don’t have to play or are out of the tournament! The final on Sunday is planned at 19:00.
How to get in?
E-mail to info@poolkrant.nl. We will require your entry fee no later than the 10th of May, for wich we will get back to with payment details. All information will be handled discretely and no official name is needed for the participants.
Who the the devils playground is Gijs van Helmond?
Gijs is one of the best of the Dutch players; just below the level of the one’s you know. He is a genuine nice bloke, who looks and acts kind of hazy usually. He is the first poolplayer to be caught officially with Marihuana traces in his go to the bathroom during an official tournament. Therefore he has become a cult-figure in the Amsterdam scene and he gets this tournament as a tribute for standing tall as a marihuana user!
Hail Gijs!

This tournament is NOT sanctioned by the WPA, EPBF and KNBB

Your Host

Etienne Verheem (mostly sativa)

lmao, that would be funny as S&*^ to watch

You've just got to admire our continental compadres. Reversing years of efforts throughout the sporting world by stipulating that illegal substances are mandatory for this event.

This is one not to be missed. Personally I spent years of hard training and sacrifice during my younger years in preparation for this event. Unfortunately I didn't play pool at the time so not sure how the two will combine.

Myself and Mr Czapski have flights and hotel booked. Anyone else going?

A word of warning for our Dutch colleagues though. Can you imagine me trying to negotiate an 8-ball layout under the influence of this banned substance. In the words of Little Miss Jocelyn "This is going to take a looooonnggg time."

Can't wait.


P.S. Etienne we've booked flights for early on Sat morning (cheaper that way) so I hope it will be OK if we are slightly late and can't register on the Friday?

follow link for cool poster; forward to fellow suspect poolplayers and print your own for in the poolroom



Click here for the full size poster!

17th and 18th of may...it is going to happen and registrations from allover the world are coming in. Forget about Fujairah, the World8-ballChampionships, play the Amsterdam Open in Club 8. register at info@poolkrant.nl and use same adress to request fullsize image to print out and hang up in your poolroom

1000 for first and no pro's to be discerned (through the haze
many foreigners coming, who will beat the favorites van Streepen en van Velthoven?
30eu entry fee, including party package

doet gijs zelf ook mee?