Sporting Bet backgammon- is it beatable?

[Martin]

Bump from the dead.

I also had a look at the Sportingbet site and saw this. Anyone tried it, any comments? I see they have freeroll BG tournaments.

[bobhalford]

i don't think there is much money in backgammon unless you are an expert player. I figure to break even so I play true money games even though i hear the players are bad at gammon empire. Never bothered to try it since I play for fun and dont expect to win much if at all until im an expert player.

[Martin]

I saw the freerolls had quite a few takers today. Guess I'll give em a try sometime. I agree that there probably isn't enough money in online BG at the minuteto be profitable.

[lwspoker69]

actually, i think play65/gammonempire has enough money to be profitable, if you are playing perfect (as near perfect as humanly possible anyway) backgammon. even if you are playing intermediate backgammon, there are quite a few people under 1500 there who will play you for small stakes.

of course, it's not as profitable as poker at all, but it's nice to win a few bucks here or there. the 30k guaranteed might actually be +ev depending on how many players enter, which is usually less than what makes up 30k in prizepool money

[jba]

isn't it very easy to play backgammon with a comp?

[stigmata]

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isn't it very easy to play backgammon with a comp?

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Bill Robertie made a good post about this a while back. I can't find the post, but his username is "Robertie" so you might be able to find it. He said that you can use the program snowy to see if someone is playing perfect backgammon. Also, they will take quite some time to make every move. In his experience he has only come across a couple of cheats and the sites took it seriously, I think.

[Martin]

The bizzare thing is that some guys were cheating on free games.

Anyway on the topic of backgammon software. What's the opinion of GNU Backgammon for those of us that are too cheap to pay for snowy?