If you've been playing backgammon on your pc and wonder how to go the next step to make some money at it, September and October 2006 are great months to get started.
Remember when you used your pc mostly to play solitaire? You certainly were'nt alone. Building on that, the newest operating systems are including expanded games such as hearts, spades, reversi and now backgammon.
Possibly as a result, and more likely because of the interest in skill games, online backgammon is becoming one of the most popular forms of entertainment and gaming on the web today. Further, much of this continued success can be attributed to the growing number of online backgammon tournaments that have become almost a daily occurrence with prize money getting bigger and better with every tournament. Players can find round the clock tournaments with prize money escalating by the hour.
One of the larger bacgammon rooms can be found on www.play65.com. They lay claim to over one million registered players. With up to 10,000 players playing regularly throughout the day, there's a lot of action to be found. Why are so many choosing this site?For the same reasons that Poker tournaments have been so popular, it's all about the money.
Throughout September www.play65.com will be offering prizes from $500.00 through to $2500.00, plus the chance to win exclusive entry to the Big October Prize, where the prize money shoots up to $50,000. Entry to the $50,000 tournament requires no buy in rather you win your way through in satellite competitions. The BIG Prize competition takes place on October 1st in a 3-7 tournament: with the initial rounds Matching up to 3; and the Final Round up to 7 $50000 – will be split across 128 players who will all win prizes.
These Fall events are running up to the even bigger one. This is the tournament that all online backgammon players want to play in, the tournament that has the backgammon professionals salivating and the backgammon media hyped to bursting.
It's a Million Dollar Tournament sponsored by Party gammon. It's the first online backgammon site in history to offer a guaranteed One Million Dollars in prize money.
The tournament takes place on January 21 -25 2007 at the former world championship location of the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The ultimate winner of the top prize is set to receive a guaranteed $500,000 in prize money plus the prestige that goes with the title of the first million dollar winner.
The event will attract stars of stage and screen as well as board and PC and will be televised, so that the whole backgammon world can follow the competition.
This page was last updated on September 12th, 2006.
