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21 July 2009 News from the Monte Carlo World Championship Monte Carlo World Backgammon Championships 2009 Masayuki Mochizuki is the 2009 Casinorip.com World Backgammon Champion! Championship Flight 173 players have entered the tournament, each paying €1,000 in order to call themselves the 2009 World Backgammon Champion! We'll be keeping an eye on several players as below as they progress through the tournament. • Julian Wilson (aka prusoms16) - Winner of our online qualifier seat and regular on the site • Kevin Dale - GameAccount CEO. • John Clark - Friend of the site and considered one of the finest UK players. • Lars Trabolt - Reigning World Backgammon Champion • Uli Koch - Casinorip.com London Open Champion 2009 • Chris Ternel - Regular site player • Roland Herrera - Organiser of the Casinorip.com Bristol Open, August 2009 Play has been starting at about 1pm each day and often going on well past midnight. The winner will need to have applied himself against some of the best players in the world for a week straight playing almost 50 hours of backgammon to take the title!. The 1st round draw saw some big names from the Backgammon World including seven of the top 10 ranked players in the world. With no seeding there was always going to be a couple of early fireworks. The plum draw of the 1st round was Stick Rice versus Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon, worth of a final in terms of quality in many people’s eyes. In the end it was Falafel who progressed to the next round. Round 1 - 17pt Crawford Last 256 Only 90 of the 173 players played in the first round. Rather fortunately, five of our hopefuls received a bye and have progressed to the second round. Chris Ternel WON against Moshe Ben-David Uli Koch LOST to Perry Gartner Round 2 - 17pt Crawford Last 128 Julian Wilson LOST to Sovani Renato..... on exiting the tournament we managed to grab this delightful quote from our qualifier, " the dream is over!". Best of luck in the Consolation! Kevin Dale WON against Fabrice de Carbon Lars Trabolt WON against NerzatDogan Roland Herrera WON against Ricardo Spinola John Clark LOST to Pom Mickelsson Chris Ternel LOST to Michael Hileyan Round 3 - 19pt Crawford Last 64 Kevin Dale LOST to Hugh Sconyers Lars Trabolt WON against Tassilo Ryzmann Roland Herrera WON against Clement Lessel Round 4 - 19pt Crawford Last 32 Lars Trabolt WON against Oliver Lafon Roland Herrera WON against Frank Stepler Round 5 - 21pt Crawford Last 16 Line Up Alvaro Savio TBC Shimon Kagan Round 6 - 21pt Crawford Last 8 Line Up Masayuki Mochizuki WON against Savio/Kagan Semi Final - 23pt Crawford Masayuki Mochizuki WON against Philippe Lecomte Lars Trabolt WON against Roland Herrera Final - 25pt Crawford Masayuki 'Mochy' Mochizuki WON against Lars Trabolt Congratulations to Mochy from Japan who beat the 2008 champion Lars Trabolt in a tight game. More to follow.... Prusoms16 aka Julian Wilson - Profile Congratulations to Prusoms16 aka Julian Wilson who has won the all inclusive package to the World Backgammon Championship in Monte Carlo. He beat seven other finalists including a comprehensive 7-0 victory over poni1970 in the final. Julian started playing Backgammon almost 30 years ago in the early 1980’s when his father introduced him to the game. Most games were played for fun or small stakes with his father's friends. However, it occurred to Julian that one person usually won and this gave him the determination to improve his game. A move to London exposed him to the international scene and in 1985 he eventually took over the running of Victor Lownes' Stocks Club, the former Playboy Casino, in London. His reputation has continued to grow and is now a well known player on the international backgammon scene. More recently Julian was part of the $1m Bahamas Open in January 2007, providing live commentary and producing behind the scenes. Most of his time spent Playing is now online as in recent years work and family have taken priority. However, Julian is relishing the chance to pull on the famous Black Casinorip Shirt and represent us in the World Backgammon Championships in two weeks time. Julian can be often found playing under his alias on the site and we wish him the very best of luck in the upcoming weeks as he prepares for the Championship.
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14 July 2009 Julian on board for big prize chance A former Scarborough boxer is looking to deliver a knockout blow to his rivals and win more than £170,000 in an international backgammon tournament. Julian Wilson, 49, went to Scarborough Boys' High School and represented Edgehill boxing gym, winning the Sports Star contest in 1984. But after moving to London the same year, Julian's passion switched to backgammon and now he is in Monte Carlo for the chance to win the 200,000 euro prize after beating seven opponents in an online tournament. The tournament started on Sunday and Julian, who now lives in Amsterdam, said he was looking forward to the challenge. "It was in Scarborough that I learned to play backgammon and I read my first ever backgammon book from the library. "It would certainly be great to see the England flag on the list of world champions without scrolling down three pages to 1976! "I'm playing better now than I ever have so I have at least on outside chance. But the room will be full of the best backgammon players in the world so whoever wins will have had an extremely tough week." |
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9 June 2009 Monte Carlo World Backgammon Championships: 13th -18th July, Monaco If you can't afford the £40 it'll cost you to enter the Biba World Championship (click here for details) then perhaps you can afford £1 to have a crack at the Monte Carlo one. Four weeks from today, you have the chance to be rubbing shoulders with celebs whilst mixing it with the World’s best Backgammon players at Casinorip.com World Backgammon Championships in Monte Carlo, Monaco. We are guaranteeing a package worth up to €3,500 for a £1 buy-in! This includes flights, tournament entry worth over €1,000 and 6 nights of luxury accommodation. Online Qualifiers (click the logo below for full details) There are two ways to qualify for the 8 seat final on June 29th. Either bring your pound to the table on Monday nights to qualify directly or use our Probot Series. The tournaments can be found in the Backgammon lobby under the ‘exclusive’ tab. All times are in BST at 9pm and buy in is £1. The winner receives a seat in the 8 seat final on 29th June.
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7 January 2009 A CUT BELOW THE REST Casinorip.com, sponsors of the Biba web site, have unveiled the lowest backgammon rake available anywhere online ranging from 5% to just 1% according to stake size. “Most backgammon providers are keen to avoid explaining how much rake or commission they charge and a quick review of their terms and conditions doesn’t leave you much the wiser”, says Casinorip.com CEO Kevin Dale. “Not surprising really, as there are some sites out there taking a rake of 19% which is absurd. You’d need to beat a player 5 times in every 8 games just to break even at that level! We’d like to think that our rake levels will ensure that we remain the premier location for all online Backgammon players”. Backgammon Rake It’s probably best to give you an example here. You have just opened an account and agreed to play a 3 point match (first to three points wins) for £100. Your rating is 1500, your opponent’s is 1800. You win 3-0 which means they lose £100. But what do you net from the transaction? And does it ‘feel’ like the right fee has been deducted for the service? At Casinorip.com, the winner would receive £194 including his stake, i.e. a £94 win with £6 paid out in commission. Stated as a percentage of the pot this equates to a rake of 3%. Were you to play that same game, however, at play65, the net profit to you would only be £72, i.e. a rake of 14%! And it gets worse, the more points you play. On a 5 point game ending 5-3, for example, you are likely to be charged up to 19% - this means that if you won 60% of your games you would not be any richer. As backgammon, like poker, is a game which combines skill and chance, this is a tall order. |
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