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Neil Kazaross writes:
Gammonsite
<http://www.gammonsite.com>
has lots of no money tournaments of different types throughout the day.
They also have small money small tournaments in the evenings. Tournaments
are timed! And I know for a fact that they aggressively look for cheaters.
There are a couple more good players there lately.
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Stanley Richards writes:
The consensus on this forum is that there are no good money online sites.
GammonEmpire/Play65 has a poor reputation due to some suspicious
punishments against players. The suspicious punishments have not been
numerous, but they have been indefensible.
Backgammon Masters does not provide game logs to evaluate games with bots.
Several excellent players have lost at this site. There are no logs to
indicate whether these world class players were playing bot caliber
opponents.
PartyGammon
<http://www.partygammon.com>
does not accept American business, thus I cannot offer an opinion. Others
may enlighten you. TrueMoneyGames
<http://www.truemoneygames.com>
has a general good reputation but a small number of active players. I just
do not know anything about NetGammon.
I suggest Play65. They are not a good site. But they might be the best
option due to number of players.
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Lucky writes:
Most action I get is on gammonempire/play65. 95% of my action is there.
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Misja Alma writes:
PartyGammon is a good site to play on, if they allow you to. Plus points
are:
- Never any trouble to withdraw money.
- always some opponents to play against.
- no public ratings (they can be found inside the hand histories though).
Minus points:
- Occasionally I have suspected my opponent to use a bot. But those players
always disappeared after a while, so it looks like PartyGammon is taking
measures against them.
- There are hardly any players for the money sit-and-go's.
- Last but not least: Americans are not allowed to play.
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Motiv4u writes:
TrueMoneyGames comes closest to the GamesGrid interface.
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David Rockwell writes:
My wife Linda and I play on VOG.
<http://www.vogclub.com/>
Walter Trice plays there as well. Otherwise, there are few serious players.
Besides having few serious players, the number of weak players is low too.
They have good graphics and a good system. I like their tournament and
rating structure. Tournament matches are timed at two or three minutes plus
2 seconds per move or something like that. All matches are automatically
saved in .mat format. There is a facility for money play which is seldom
used. (They use "tokens".) Don't expect to win real money unless you bring
your fish with you. There are a small number of tournaments a year with
money added - I think it is $600 per event now. I have not seen any
cheating in more than five years on the site. The cost of membership is
relatively low. Guests may play. But, they can not play in tournaments and
can not get record of their matches. Most play is tournament play since the
site lacks critical mass.
The site also offers several variants including acey-deucy and several
foreign backgammon variants. There's one variant called Crazy Narde which
is unbelievably wild and yet is a difficult skill based game. There are
pros in each of the foreign variants.
I'd love to see more serious players join this site. It could be a good
site, but it is likely to disappoint in the absence of an increase in
membership.
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Play Sites
- Arkadium (Michael Volpatt, Oct 2003)
- BG Room (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2007)
- Backgammon4Money--Announcement (Will Edison, Dec 2001)
- Best value (Kenny Lee Smith+, June 1998)
- Club Games (Ashton Haze, Sept 2005)
- Club Games (Tomawaky+, May 2005)
- Comparison of rakes (Raccoon, Dec 2006)
- Comparison of rakes (Raccoon, July 2006)
- Comparison of rakes (Hank Youngerman+, Oct 2005)
- Comparison of rakes (Daniel, Aug 2005)
- DailyGammon (Dan Wittkopp+, July 2004)
- DailyGammon (Scott Steiner+, Apr 2004)
- DailyGammon (Phil Vanicek, May 2001)
- FIBS vs. GamesGrid (Bob Stringer, May 2000)
- FIBS--Financial support (Kit Woolsey, Aug 1997)
- FIBS--Original announcement (Andreas Schneider, July 1992)
- FIBS--Top Tournament Performers (Osman Guner, July 2003)
- FIBS--Your worst fears (Richard Greenberg, Nov 1995)
- Fair Backgammon (info, May 2006)
- Free online tournaments (Ricardo Hui+, Mar 2009)
- Friendly play site (Ian Dunstan+, Feb 2006)
- GameDesire (Maciej Mróz, Sept 2004)
- GameSite2000--Announcment (GameSite 2000, Jan 2000)
- Games4Dollars (Info Team, Apr 2004)
- GamesGrid vs FIBS (Jim Cochrane, Jan 1999)
- GamesGrid--Announcement (CyberArts Inc., June 1996)
- GamesGrid--Comparison to FIBS (Ken Arnold, May 1997)
- GamesGrid--Second version (Ken Arnold, Sept 1996)
- GamesGrid--Update (Ken Arnold, Mar 1998)
- Gammon Empire--Announcement (Jerry, Nov 2004)
- Gammon11 (sirkaber, May 2006)
- HigherGames--Announcement (Michael Gilbert, Dec 2003)
- ItsYourTurn--Announcement (Tom Buhrman, Sept 1999)
- Ladbrokes.com (mccm1976, May 2006)
- Link to review of play sites (cindybel+, May 2006)
- MSN Gaming Zone--Overall experience (Mark Ferrante+, Nov 1997)
- MSN Gaming Zone--Thoughts (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 1998)
- MoneyGaming.com (max+, July 2005)
- NOBS (Lou Poppler+, Aug 1996)
- Overview (chinaski+, June 2008)
- Overview (Alan Webb, Jan 1999)
- PiranhaGammon (Piranha, Dec 2007)
- Play site wish list (Perry Gartner+, Dec 2012)
- Play65/GammonEmpire (Butch Meese+, July 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire (Daniel Murphy+, Dec 2004)
- Play65/GammonEmpire vs. TrueMoneyGames (oneprime+, Feb 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Are they the same? (Tony Yarwood+, Aug 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Review (Tom Keith+, Sept 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Withdrawal symptoms (David Warmind+, May 2007)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Withdrawal symptoms (Erik Sorensen+, Apr 2007)
- Playmaker World--Announcement (Michael Crane, Nov 2001)
- Playsite--Announcement (Seth Tapper, Mar 1997)
- Ratings comparison (Daniel Murphy, Aug 1999)
- Richard's Play-by-E-mail Server (Richard Rognlie, May 1997)
- TrueMoneygames--Announcement (TrueMoneygames Info, Apr 2002)
- VOG (Glenn+, Feb 2000)
- Where to play for money (mginat+, May 2006)
- Where to play for money (Victor Zanfer+, Apr 2005)
- Yahoo Games (Steve Fiete+, Mar 1998)
- Yahoo Games--Ratings (Neil GoBlu+, July 2000)
- melBG--Announcement (David Kinston, Dec 2000)
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