Backgammon: Only points for turning up
After Sean's initial triumph, he had another success last week although this was not in the tournament. We had both been knocked out of the main tournament (there is no consolation) and We were playing in a $5 chouette (~2). People at the Sydney club don't seem to play for lower stakes; it's usually either $5 or $10.
The chap from New Zealand, Charlie, got a bit drunk and proceeded to lose many points, mainly to Sean. Sean ended up nearly $300 up! Unfortunately as Sean was the largest winner and Charlie didn't have enough cash, Sean only got an IOU. And this week Charlie wasn't there...
In the tournament this week, I went out so quickly (7-0) that I bought back in. There weren't that many people around (they only managed to scrape a 16 player tourney including several buy backs) and there weren't any chouettes going on so I thought I'd have another stab. I think I lost the first match partly because I took a cube on 4 when I was losing in the race something like 71-46 (or maybe by even more) but I'm sure I've been told that the race doesn't mean anything when it is that short. Maybe I'll have to learn some kind of wastage count.
I lost the second match 7-4. Meanwhile, Sean had also had to buy back in and so I went to watch his second match. He seemed to be playing lots of complicated games, with lots of blot hitting going on. I think this was mainly due to his opponent's playing style - I'm sure I saw him look disappointed when he scored a roll that made his 20 point (not dynamic enough). Sean was leading for most of the match, I think it was 5-1 when I went over and from 6-2 onwards looked like he had it in the bag. But his opponent won the Crawford game and then scraped a gammon at the end. We were both out. As there were no chouettes we got to go home at a reasonable time, so not all bad.
The venue changes next week and we stop having to trek out to Bondi. The backgammon evening will be held in a pub by central station and we should just be able to walk there in 20 mins or so. Cool.
News on the ladder - I started scraping my way back and then Sean crushed me with a couple of large wins (including an 11 point match). Score at the moment is 17-7 to Sean.
After Sean's initial triumph, he had another success last week although this was not in the tournament. We had both been knocked out of the main tournament (there is no consolation) and We were playing in a $5 chouette (~2). People at the Sydney club don't seem to play for lower stakes; it's usually either $5 or $10.
The chap from New Zealand, Charlie, got a bit drunk and proceeded to lose many points, mainly to Sean. Sean ended up nearly $300 up! Unfortunately as Sean was the largest winner and Charlie didn't have enough cash, Sean only got an IOU. And this week Charlie wasn't there...
In the tournament this week, I went out so quickly (7-0) that I bought back in. There weren't that many people around (they only managed to scrape a 16 player tourney including several buy backs) and there weren't any chouettes going on so I thought I'd have another stab. I think I lost the first match partly because I took a cube on 4 when I was losing in the race something like 71-46 (or maybe by even more) but I'm sure I've been told that the race doesn't mean anything when it is that short. Maybe I'll have to learn some kind of wastage count.
I lost the second match 7-4. Meanwhile, Sean had also had to buy back in and so I went to watch his second match. He seemed to be playing lots of complicated games, with lots of blot hitting going on. I think this was mainly due to his opponent's playing style - I'm sure I saw him look disappointed when he scored a roll that made his 20 point (not dynamic enough). Sean was leading for most of the match, I think it was 5-1 when I went over and from 6-2 onwards looked like he had it in the bag. But his opponent won the Crawford game and then scraped a gammon at the end. We were both out. As there were no chouettes we got to go home at a reasonable time, so not all bad.
The venue changes next week and we stop having to trek out to Bondi. The backgammon evening will be held in a pub by central station and we should just be able to walk there in 20 mins or so. Cool.
News on the ladder - I started scraping my way back and then Sean crushed me with a couple of large wins (including an 11 point match). Score at the moment is 17-7 to Sean.
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