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Vegas - Nov. 7th - 11th

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Saturday, 20 October 2007, at 9:54 a.m.

In Response To: Vegas - Nov. 7th - 11th (Stick)

What I wondered is what in the shit is the American Doubles Championship and who enters it? Just the first 16 chumps (8 teams) to come up with the cash?

This is the tournament formerly known as the Pro Am popular with former chess players, current backgammoneers, future poker players, and a$$orted luminaries. Not sure when the Pro Am started, but in 1998 it was in Turnberry Isle, Florida and moved to Las Vegas the following year. In 2006 it changed names to "World Doubles Backgammon Championship." I think the entry fee last year was $10,000 as it had been for several years. But apparently this year Howard Markowitz is running an "American Doubles Championship" in Las Vegas in conjunction with the Las Vegas Open next month with a $5,000 entry fee, and bringing tournament backgammon back to New Yawk City in January 2008 with a "New York Metropolitan Open" ($400 entry) and a "World Doubles Championship" ($7,000 entry).

Date/Place	Tourney	Teams	1st	2nd	3rd/4th
2006/11 Las Vegas	World Doubles Backgammon Championship	14	1. Steve Sax/Brian Zembic	2. Tim Lawless/Mike Senkiewicz	3/4. Morten Holm/Mike Sherman and Falafel Natanzon/Arkadiy Tsinis
2005/11 Las Vegas	Backgammon Pro-Am	12	1. Tami Jones/Kit Woolsey	2. Sander Lylloff/Mark Teltscher
2004/11 Las Vegas	Backgammon Pro Am	14	1. Nack Ballard/Wayne McClintock	2. Lars Bønding/Katja Spillum	3/4. Dod Davies/Wayne Felton and Claude Marbleu/François Tardieu
2003/11 Las Vegas	Backgammon Pro Am	18	1. Nack Ballard/Wayne McClintock	2. Ken Arnold/Falafel Natanzon	3/4. Lars Bønding/Morten Holm/Michael Olsen and Alex Lehmann/Morris Mosseri/Albert Tow
2002/11 Las Vegas	Pro-Am Doubles	21	1. Jerry Grandell/Armando Balbi	2. Kent Goulding/Martha Ghio	3/4. Leo Fernandez/José Salema and John Rockwell/Jim Aita/Danielle Rager
2001/02 Las Vegas	Pro-Am Doubles	20	1. Nack Ballard/Harvey Huie	2. Mike Senkiewicz/Mike Sherman
2000/03 Las Vegas	Pro-Am Doubles	20	1. Mads Andersen/Gianni Bizzarro	2. Alex Barsel/Howard Markowitz	3/4. Perry Gartner/Jake Jacobs and Malcolm Davis/Talmadge Tinsley
1999/02 Las Vegas	Pro-Am Doubles	20	1. Joe Russell/Bob Wachtel	2. Abe Mosseri/Falafel Natanzon	3/4. Kit Woolsey/Donald Kahn and Paul Magriel/Steve Zolotow
1998/02 Turnberry Isle	Pro-Am Invitational	16	1. Phillip Marmorstein/Ralf Ludwig	2. Jose Salema/Leo Fernandez	3/4. Paul Magriel/Steve Zolotow and Elliott Winslow/Howard Markowitz

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Messages In This Thread

• Vegas - Nov. 7th - 11th
  Stick -- Saturday, 20 October 2007, at 3:23 a.m.
  • Vegas - Nov. 7th - 11th
    Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 20 October 2007, at 9:54 a.m.