BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENTS

One of the most popular online games, as all know, is backgammon. After playing a few standard games, using the 3D GammonEmpire's great program and learning the online backgammon system in a few different ways; single game, series match, swing etc. After playing some money games, though it may be safer to play against one player, Playing against one person at the time for money is taking too long If you are trying to make money, so, Maybe it's time to try some other things the system offers, So, I decided to try the backgammon tournaments available online.

Backgammon players, beginners and professional, from all over the world already discovered the online tournaments. If you think you really got it and you want to make some money, the backgammon tournaments are the best place to check it. Meet the best backgammon and online backgammon players and try to win their money.

While there are many different types of backgammon tournaments , both on-line and off line, there are some general differences in these events. Of course, there are the obvious differences of physically rolling the dice and moving the checkers, and looking into the face of your opponent that you have live.

Backgammon tournaments are normally decided by single elimination matches in the same way as major tennis tournaments. Competitors are paired off and each pair plays a series of games to decide which player will progress to the next round. Players eliminated in the first round normally go into a consolation event (or plate) and, if it is a big enough tournament like the World Championships, there will be a second consolation and ultimately a Last Chance.

Matches are played to a specified number of points. Consolation and Last Chance events are always played to a smaller number of points than the main event. The first player to accumulate the required number of points wins the match. Points are awarded in the usual manner: one for a single game, two for a gammon and three for backgammon. The doubling cube is used, so the winner receives the value of the game multiplied by the final value of the doubling cube. Thus if a player wins a gammon with the cube on 4, he wins eight points. If the players were playing a 7-point match, the match would be over in one game.

Matches are normally played to an odd number of points and the Crawford Rule is always used. The Crawford rule states that if one player reaches a score one point short of the match (i.e. he is at match point), neither player may offer a double in the following game. This one game without doubling is called the Crawford game. After the Crawford game, if the match has not yet been decided, the doubling cube is available again and the player who is trailing in the match should double at the first available opportunity.

There is no bonus for winning more than the required number of points. When playing a match to a certain number of points, the winner is the first person who wins that number of points. It doesn`t matter if he wins more than that number, or how many points his opponent has scored. The sole goal is to win the match, and the winning margin is immaterial.

The best online backgammon tournaments

There are many kinds of backgammon tournaments online; there is of course the regular tournament which takes place a few times every day. In this tournament you pay the fee (the fee is different for every regular tournament) and you can win much more money. Another great thing in this kind of tournaments is that the prize pool is splitting between all four finalists! There is the special backgammon tournaments with a higher buy in fee and, of course, much higher prize pool; there is the satellite backgammon tournament, in which you can pay a buy in fee or use your stars (you are getting stars for each real money game you are playing) to enter and by winning those satellite tournaments, you get a free ticket to the biggest special events, some, with a prize pool of 100,000!.

And of course there are the daily tournaments, some of them are regular, some are stars tournaments. The freeroll backgammon tournament is one of the most popular backgammon tournaments. If you are familiar with the backgammon tournaments terms, you must have heard the term freeroll (or free enroll), but to whom this word is new, here is an explanation: On the backgammon online tournaments, one can play against 3 up to more then a hundred opponents, gain more money after passing more challenges. If you don’t want to pay money on the first tournament you are playing, there is this option – the stars freeroll or the freeroll tournament.

You don't pay the entry fee on this tournament to get in; still, you can win money! And that's the way it work; as written above, by playing "real money" games you acquire stars. Those stars, you can use to enter the freeroll tournaments without paying the "buy in" fee.

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