Backgammon Tournaments
Backgammon can be played in various formats. It can be a home game, a club game, a casino game and a tournament game. There are a number of real life backgammon tournaments with the most prestigious of them being played once a year on Bahamas. However, most players do not have time and ability to go to Bahamas or even gather enough backgammon players to organize a local tournament. In today's busy world, there is no better place to play a backgammon tournament than the internet. Although online backgammon is not as developed industry as online poker, for example, it has enjoyed significant raise of popularity in recent times and several large and reliable websites that offer online backgammon tournaments appeared.
If your idea of online backgammon tournaments is a casino or poker-like event, you need to search for sites that are qualified as gambling backgammon sites. These sites are based on money games and tournaments with entry fees. Playing at these sites you can be sure you will risk money, but in return you get a huge variety of events to join. At Play65, for example, you can join the following tournaments: Sit & Go tournaments that start any time of the day as soon as the required number of players (4 or 8) expresses their desire to join. 8 player tournaments participants pay $13 to join and 4 player tournaments have $26 entry fee.
The winner of such Sit & Go tournament receives a free entry to a large online tournament with $40,000 prize pool. Another way to qualify to this tournament is to be a winner of a weekly tournament with $5.5 entry fee or to accumulate 1.500 star points given for wagering money, and win a freeroll satellite tournament. Apart from this, there are at least 4 tournaments running daily at Play65 with prize pools ranging from $300 to $3,000 and entry fees between $3 and $15.
If you prefer playing free online backgammon tournaments, you can try Yahoo Games. At the backgammon section of one of the largest internet businesses, you can create your own tournaments, join online backgammon tournaments created by other players, or take part in official tournaments organized by Yahoo. You do not pay to participate in these tournaments, but you neither win any money prizes, because Yahoo does not deal with gambling, but offers purely recreational games.
If you do want to receive money prizes, you can try VOG (Vinco Online Games) Club. Backgammon at this site, as well as other games, normally is not played for money, but it runs a monthly backgammon tournament, where players can win an honorable seal and a symbolic prize of $3, which is equal to monthly payment at VOG club. Besides, once in each 7 weeks, VOG Club runs a $1000 Online Backgammon Tournament. This tournament does not have en entrance fee, but 64 top ranked VOG players of those who desire to sign up, fight fro the $1000 prize pool. A Narde online tournament with the same prize pool runs at VOG Club every 14 weeks
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