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Online Backgammon Tournaments

Playing online backgammon tournaments is much more exciting and challenging way to play backgammon. Online backgammon tournaments allow you to test your skill against larger number of worldwide backgammon players and as a desirable result, to earn larger real money prizes.
Different online backgammon rooms offer different types of backgammon tournaments. Continue reading to learn about some of the most common formats of backgammon tournaments in the online backgammon world.

Sit and Go Backgammon Tournaments

In the sit & go backgammon tournaments, the number of participants is limited and defined in advance. These backgammon tournaments are not scheduled and they begin once the last player registers. Sit and Go backgammon tournaments can be found on play65 backgammon room on a daily basis. The number of participants in play65 sit & go's usually ranges from 4 to 64 players; the more participants the higher the prize.

Satellite and Event Tournaments

Satellite tournaments are a type of backgammon tournament whereby the winners earn free entrance to an event tournament instead of a cash prize. Event tournaments are special tourneys with predefined time and date, relatively higher buy-ins and larger prizes. Therefore, playing a satellite backgammon tournament can be very beneficial.

For example, play65 hosts bi-monthly $50,000 event tournament in which winners of the satellite tournaments can participate for free.

Elimination Tournaments

Elimination tournaments sometimes called knockout tournaments consist of a series of rounds with predefined number of participants. Only the winners of each round move on to the next round and on the last round only two players remain. Yahoo backgammon hosts daily official and league single elimination backgammon tournaments.

Swing Tournaments

Swing tournaments are another type of elimination tournaments. A swing backgammon tournament begins when all the players own the same amount of chips and ends with one player who'd earned the other contestants' chips. When a player loses his entire chips, he is required to drop out of the competition and to leave the chips to his opponent. Swing online backgammon tournaments can be found on GammonEmpire.

Rating Limited Tournaments

As their name indicates, rating limited tournaments are online backgammon competition open to players who share a similar rating. For example, in play65, only players with a rating less than a set can join. The purpose of rating limited tournament is to allow players to compete against players with a similar skill level.