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Sportingbet Backgammon provide an exciting range of regular scheduled multi-table tournaments and special-event tournaments. Tournaments are an exciting opportunity to stake a little money, to win a lot.
Multi-table Tournaments
The ultimate type of tournament, familiar to any poker players interested in staking a little, to make a small fortune! These tournaments are available online every day, week and month in a variety of formats including massive guaranteed prize pools with qualifiers running 24/7 at all levels of buy-in.
Tournament Payouts
| Max players | 4 | 16 | 32 | 256* | 256** | 512*** |
| Place Finished | 1st | 2nd | 3rd - 4th | 5th - 8th | 9th - 16th | 17th - 32nd |
| % prize pool paid | 100% | |||||
| % prize pool paid | 65% | 35% | ||||
| % prize pool paid | 70% | 20% | 5% | |||
| % prize pool paid | 40% | 20% | 10% | 5% | ||
| % prize pool paid | 20% | 10% | 7% | 6% | 4% | 4% |
| % prize pool paid | 20% | 10% | 7% | 4% | 3% | 1% |
Special Tournaments
Please note all residents of UK & Ireland are now on British Summer Time (BST) which is GMT + 1 hour.
SUNDAYS - £4,000 Backgammon Tournament. Every Sunday at 20:00 (BST) with a guaranteed prize pool of £4,000. Superb value direct buy-in of just £30.00 (inc fee). Every tournament round is played to 3points except for the final which is played to 7points. Top32 players get paid, with first place taking home £640 and the runner-up £320.
Qualify to play for just £2.00 + £0.50. Qualifier tournaments for the Sunday £4,000 Backgammon tournament are now online twice daily Monday through Thursday at 13:00 & 22:00 (BST) and once only on Fridays at 13:00 (BST). Play every round to 1point so even beginners have a good chance of winning. The Top4 players share the qualifying tournaments prize pool with the winner (effective from Tuesday 25 September 2007) receiving a free buy-in to Sundays £4,000 main event worth £30.00. All qualifying players will be entered into the main event tournament before 17:00 BST on Fridays.
This Weeks Main Tournaments
There's an exciting schedule of different tournaments each night of the week. Fantastic guaranteed prize money, added-value tournaments and big money freerolls for everyone to enjoy.
| 21/11/2008 09:10:00 | Backgammon | BG-1pt £10 Cheaproll pays 4plr |
| 21/11/2008 11:10:00 | Backgammon | BG-1pt £10 Cheaproll pays 4plr |
| 21/11/2008 12:15:00 | Backgammon | BG-1pt Sunday $4k Qualifier |
| 21/11/2008 15:10:00 | Backgammon | BG-1pt £5-added pays 4 plrs |
| 21/11/2008 17:10:00 | Backgammon | BG-1pt £20 Pennyroll pays 8pl |
| 21/11/2008 18:10:00 | Backgammon | BG-3pt £40 Superroll pays 2pl |
| 23/11/2008 19:00:00 | Backgammon | BG-3pt $4000 Sunday pays16 |
Regular Daily Tournaments
We have a huge choice of scheduled tournaments throughout the day and night. Tournaments start from as little at 50p and are a great way to turn a few pennies into pounds. You can see tournaments in the game lobby several hours (and sometimes days) in advance of their scheduled start times. There are so many tournaments we cant list them all here so enter the game lobby for todays full list of regular tournaments.
Daily Freeroll Tournaments
We offer freeroll (free to play) tournaments three times every day, with special freerolls every week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Freeroll tournaments are a great way to learn how to play in tournaments.
Tips on How to Play Tournaments
Register to play. Our tournaments are scheduled to start at specific times every day. You need to register in advance of the start time in order to play. When you register to play, you also pay the buy-in (and the tournament fee, if any). You can choose to leave the tournament any time in advance of the scheduled start time and youll have your money refunded instantly.
Choosing Tournaments. We label tournaments with information to allow players to understand exactly which game its for, what game rules the tournament uses, the amount of money added or guaranteed (if any) and the number of people who share the prize money. For example:
BG-3pt £100-added pays 8plrs This means the tournament is for Backgammon (BG), every tournament round is played to 3point (3pt). There is £100-added to the prize money, which means the minimum prize money in the tournament is £100 and the prize money will increase with every player who registers to play. Finally, you can tell the tournament pays the prize money to the top-placed eight players (8plrs).
Tournament Information. Click on a tournaments description in the lobby (its under-lined, see?) and up will pop a small window providing you with more information on the tournament. You can see which players have registered to play and how much the prize money currently stands at. Once the tournament has started, clicking on the tournament description allows you see to where players are in the tournament and the amounts of money they have won (or stand to win, if they win the next tournament round).
Be online, on time! The scheduled tournaments listed above will appear online and be open for registration at least 30 minutes before the scheduled start time. Once you have registered to play in a tournament please ensure you are online, on time, at the scheduled start time V you should also stay online while you are still competing. Players arriving more than 2 minutes after the scheduled start time of a tournament or game round will forfeit.
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