Mika Immonen at g-Forest

It’s this time of the year again when many good pool players come over to Japan to play in the All Japan Open in Amagasaki. Defending Champion from last year, Mika Immomen, also came again and the friendly owners of g-Forest invited him over to their pool hall for some challenge matches.

Sae-chan took me with her to go pick up Mika at his hotel in Amagasaki and she was struggling a bit to find her way ( driving onto the motorway in the wrong direction ) so we ran a bit late. After picking him up we went back to g-Forest pool hall and had Kushikatsu (fried things on skewers) for dinner at some nice posh private dinning place before starting to play pool.

As expected i (and most others) were not really much of a challenge for Mika – he was on fire. He had to miss the 9 ball intentionally like 2 times in a row before i could make the shoot to at least get a pity-point on the scoreboard and avoid a complete disaster.

I am planning to head over to the venue and watch some games this Saturday. With a bit of luck i might get to see Mika qualifying for the final round (happens on Sunday). And on the way back i probably could get myself one of those nice big pizzas that i saw last weekend at Costco !