Live Backgammon Tournaments
For anyone who has every played in any kind of backgammon tournament, you will know that your adrenaline is flowing, and the excitement and tension are palpable. Even for those who usually play in online blackjack tournaments, it is certainly worth arranging to play in a live tournament simply to enjoy the experience.
Sometimes the rules differ slightly from tournament to tournament, or from live tournaments to online tournaments, but rest assured that at the live tournaments, there will be more experienced players or organizers who will take the time to explain to new backgammon tournament players how the rules work.
Even if you play an excellent game of backgammon, but have never played live before, you should probably join the lowest live event that is being offered, simply to get the feel of playing in live backgammon tournaments.
Remember that when playing live, there is no computer checking your every move to ensure that you have not made a mistake, therefore it is imperative that you take care when counting out your moves, and when taking your pieces off so that there should be no confusion.
Online Backgammon Tournaments
There are many choices when it comes to playing online backgammon tournaments. First off, there are both free backgammon tournaments, and real money backgammon tournaments. Players may prefer to begin with free tournaments in order to get a bit of practice in, and then move over to those that are real money backgammon tournaments.
There are regular online backgammon tournaments, which will require a buy-in fee, and then game play. Players will get eliminated, and usually the top four players will be the ones to split the prize pool.
There are also satellite tournaments available that help players to get into bigger tournaments and events. Players sometimes pay an entry fee for these satellite tournaments, and sometimes, they are free, or players can use their stars or bonus points that they have earned while playing online. The prize pools at the big events are usually far higher than will be found for smaller online backgammon tournaments. Sometimes, players will play satellite tournaments online in order to win entry into a live backgammon tournament.
Freeroll backgammon tournaments are usually only found online, since live tournaments do not offer games for free. Players either use stars they have collected to enter the freeroll, or it is totally free, when not even accumulated stars are necessary. There can be many opponents when playing in an online backgammon freeroll, and players will either win real money, or they will win stars to be used to enter other online backgammon games or tournaments.
When there are free games that come with real money prize pools, the online backgammon site has simply chosen to offer this to their players as a promotional tournament.
For those who are hoping to make larger amounts of money, rather than small wins, while playing backgammon online, tournaments are a better bet than individual games because the prize pools are much larger, even if it is more difficult to make sure that you place amongst the winners.
