Backgammon Tournaments
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Backgammon tournaments are becoming very popular on the net and began appearing almost together with the development of online backgammon. Tournaments gives players the option to play a series of backgammon games against other players in various levels from all around the world, and to make money and receive awards in backgammon.
What is it a Backgammon Tournament?
A tournament is a series of games that includes lots of players from different levels. The players play backgammon with one another and in the end, the player who obtained the highest score and won most of the games, will be the champion of the tournament.
There are two types of tournaments: playing until you lose a game or until your chips are over.
Backgammon tournaments are popular all over the world. There are live tournaments and the most important of them take place every year in particular locations around the world. There are also
online backgammon tournaments
that take place on the net. The tournaments are varied and there are different rules and different methods to play in the tournaments.
Tournaments around the world
This chapter will summarize the main live tournaments that take place around the world.
One of the most important backgammon tournaments is the Monte Carlo Tournament of the U.S. This tournament takes place once a year, and is defined as the world championship of backgammon. The participants in it are the best players in the world and they compete for the award of the "World's Backgammon Champion". The champions come from three different levels: championship, intermediate and beginners. All the winners get a high financial prize.
Another tournament in the U.S is the Nevada State Championship by the Nevada Backgammon Association. This is one of the largest backgammon tournaments in the U.S.A since 1991. This association organizes tournaments also in Las Vegas and in Chicago.
There are many other backgammon tournaments in the U.S, like the Atlanta Backgammon Association, Beltway Backgammon Club, Backgammon by the Bay and many more.
Other backgammon tournaments outside the U.S take place in Europe. The Nordic Open tournament of the Danish Backgammon Federation is one of the biggest backgammon tournaments in the Nordic countries and the members of the Danish Backgammon Federation gather every year in order to play for the championship. There is also a backgammon tournament in Oxford- England, called Gammonitis League Tournament, another one in Norway and many others all around the world, most of which enjoy a great popularity and success.
Online Backgammon Tournaments
Online backgammon tournaments offer a lot of benefits to the participants. As opposed to live tournaments, in online tournaments you don’t need to take the trouble of traveling and spending money on lodgings and food. You can stay home and play against other worldwide players while
making some real money
. The prizes on the net are also in money and players can make high sums of money.
Online backgammon tournaments are as popular as the live tournaments that take place around the world.
Here are a few of the greatest and most successful of them:
The FIBS tournaments, which offer you a great variety of tournaments like the Swiss Tournament, the Team League, the Folkman Tourney, or The Rating Championship. There are more kinds of online tournaments with different rules in different timetables; for example: the Elite League, the GammonZone Tournament, the International Backgammon Alliance and many more.
The best online backgammon tournaments today on the net take place in the
Play65
backgammon client. These tournaments include diverse backgammon tournaments with worldwide players, and the prizes offered to the winners are highly valuable. In the next chapter we will review three types of backgammon tournaments in the Play65 client.
Different types of Tournaments
There are three types of online tournaments in which the player can make money while enjoying the thrill and excitement of the games.
Filling the List:
The first online backgammon tournament is called "Filling the List". In this backgammon tournament the amount of participants is known in advance. Every player who wants to play will register until the list is full; at this moment, the tournament will begin and the other players that wanted to join this backgammon will need to wait until the next one. In this tournament it is easier to win the game, but the prizes are particularly high. We recommend this tournament to players who just begun participating in tournaments.
The Tournament's Event:
The second online backgammon tournament is "The Tournament's Event". This tournament begins in a date and a time set in advance by the editorial stuff. In this tournament, there is no need to wait for any amount of participants. The tournament will begin according to the date that has been decided. This is a very popular tournament, and you can join one every day on the net. This is also a tournament where you can accumulate points and these can be used as an entry fee to your next tournament. The price for the winners is between 20 and 50 dollars. Here lies a great opportunity for those of you who are not fond of
gambling with a lot of money
, but want to feel the thrill of playing with small sums.
Satellite Tournament:
Another online tournament in this category, called "Satellite Tournament", gives the winner an option to participate in another tournament. The entry fee for this tournament is very low, but the prizes are not too high. We recommend you to join this tournament if you don’t want to take big chances and make a symbolic sum of money.
The Swing Tournament:
The third online tournament is "The Swing Tournament". This tournament was created by Play65 and doesn’t exist in any other place in the world or the net. The main difference in this tournament, in comparison to other tournaments, is the continuity of it. Contrary to the other tournaments (where once you lost the game you are out of the tournament), in this one you can continue participating as long as you have chips to gamble with.
How does it work?
1. First you buy some chips.
2. The value of each chip will vary in the course of the tournament.
3. The "Swing Tournament" is based on one game at the time.
4. Once you won the game you can go on as long as you have chips.
5. The players are chosen in an arbitrary way.
6. The sum each player has to bet in order to enter a game is stated before the beginning of the game; the amount of the sum will not change during the game. In case you have only a partial amount of the chips required in order to enter the game, your entrance fee will be all the chips you have left.
• Every few minutes in the course of the tournament, but not in the course of a game, the number of the chips will increase for each winning point.
The "Swing Tournament" is longer than the others. The winner will take the whole kitty, after winning all the chips in the tournament. And, we can promise you, you will not be disappointed by the prize…
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