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I'm not exactly sure how it would be set up or on what site we would play, but it seems like it would be fun to have a forum tournament. One way we could do it is randomly create a bracket, and then each pairing would have to play out their match at a convenient time before a set deadline.

I wouldn't mind just playing for fun/bragging rights, especially since I will be hugely -EV

, but since this is a gambling forum I'd be willing to donate a reasonable amount also. I'm not sure how payment would work since I assume not everyone has online poker accounts.

Who's interested?

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07-10-2009 , 05:48 PM

Aaron W.

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I might be down for this, depending on the parameters.

FIBS would be a good way to go.

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07-10-2009 , 06:06 PM

dsaxton

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I'd play. Is there a way to get on FIBS using a Mac?

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07-10-2009 , 06:14 PM

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I'd play. Is there a way to get on FIBS using a Mac?

As long as you have any telnet application, you can get in. It does take a tiny bit of tweaking to get it to work right (so that it's formatted for telnet use), but when the time comes I'm sure we can get the information right.

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07-11-2009 , 12:43 AM

ChrisV

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Yeah I'd play on FIBS. Might be tough to schedule my matches though as I am on hols in NZ at the moment, so intermittent net access plus timezone issues.

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07-11-2009 , 05:05 AM

Hallberg

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I'll be up for at tournament too.

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07-11-2009 , 01:37 PM

djk123

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cool, hopefully a few more people want to play..

on a side note, does anyone know if you can export fibs games to formats other than jellyfish? like snowie or just plain text so i could manually enter the games in?

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07-11-2009 , 01:49 PM

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You can export FIBS into GNU. There used to be a funny little bug where it would do everything but the very last move. I don't know if that's still there.

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07-11-2009 , 09:42 PM

thesilkworm

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My first post in this forum but have played for a few years. Probably wouldn't want to play against you guys for money (unless it's something fairly insignificant) as I'm not great, but will definitely play if it's just for bragging rights/micro-stakes.

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07-12-2009 , 09:21 AM

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Hallberg

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When I from time to time play matches for fun I play on True Money Games. In my opinion they have the best software and they allow up to 17-point matches for fun money.

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07-12-2009 , 01:30 PM

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Chipslinger

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I'll play if I can.

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07-12-2009 , 03:52 PM

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Popeye

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I might want to play too.

Like Hallberg, i prefer the truemoneygames interface.

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07-12-2009 , 04:31 PM

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djk123

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what format do you guys think would be good? one match of ___ length (17 i guess if thats the max) or a best of 5 series of matches? i have no idea how official backgammon tournaments are organized.

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07-12-2009 , 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by djk123

what format do you guys think would be good? one match of ___ length (17 i guess if thats the max) or a best of 5 series of matches? i have no idea how official backgammon tournaments are organized.

I believe that ABT plays long single matches, but Europeans have series of short matches. I don't think it matters much to me.

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07-13-2009 , 04:17 AM

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Noir_Desir

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i would be in, but with an EV of like -0.98*buyin i'd like it too be not too expensive and i need to play at somewhat reasonable euro-times.

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07-13-2009 , 12:09 PM

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sheetsworld

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fibs still exists thats so awesome.

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07-13-2009 , 01:35 PM

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sixfour

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would be in for fun

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07-16-2009 , 06:14 AM

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franzinator

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i'm in . anytime for any stake.

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07-16-2009 , 06:19 AM

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i reckon we should run it. it will probably take a fair bit of time to schedule and play matches but who cares? its not like there will be heaps of competitors and there's no rush.

Also, would be fun to analyse our matches afterwards and post them with commentary about wtf we were thinking when we made our bad plays, etc.

Also there'd be no need to mandate FIBS or TMG, could just get each bracket to sort their own match out.

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07-16-2009 , 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

i reckon we should run it. it will probably take a fair bit of time to schedule and play matches but who cares? its not like there will be heaps of competitors and there's no rush.

Also, would be fun to analyse our matches afterwards and post them with commentary about wtf we were thinking when we made our bad plays, etc.

Also there'd be no need to mandate FIBS or TMG, could just get each bracket to sort their own match out.

Yeah that's probably the best idea.

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07-16-2009 , 06:53 AM

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indariva

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im interested

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07-16-2009 , 08:12 AM

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catoandtonic

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I am down to play if no money is involved.

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07-16-2009 , 12:36 PM

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djk123

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Okay, here's a list of interested players:

djk123
Aaron W.
dsaxton
ChrisV
hallberg
thesilkworm
chipslinger
popeye
noir_desir
sixfour
franzinator
indariva
catoandtonic

so I guess we can prob get between 12 and 16 people? Some of these people only wanted to play if no $ was involved. That's fine with me.

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07-16-2009 , 03:36 PM

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BermudaDude

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I am in, $ or not.

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07-16-2009 , 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by djk123

, but since this is a gambling forum I'd be willing to donate a reasonable amount also. I'm not sure how payment would work since I assume not everyone has online poker accounts.

Who's interested?

any chance you are still hosting a tourney?
id be interested!!!

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