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Choutte at Lucky Labs on Hawthorne, 1:00-5:00<\/span><\/span> Saturday November 5th<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Assuming Martin shows, we’ll have one board playing for $3 to $5 per point, and Rob has stated that he’ll run a board at $0.50 per point. We’ll have at most\u00a0 5 players per board. Bring a board or at least your own doubling cube. BE PREPARED TO PAY OUT UP TO 30 TIMES THE POINTS\/GAME. We’re a friendly group, but not necessarily friendly enough to take an IOU… \ud83d\ude42 If you have to cash out early, mid-afternoon settlements are always an option.<\/p>\n

The following rules to be in effect:<\/p>\n

1. Jacoby rule
\n2. No consulting before the turn, that is, players other than the captain don’t get any input until after the first double\/take\/drop decision is over. Redoubles, you can talk about why you’d want to or not. EXCEPTION: to speed up play, players are free to share the pip count at any point.
\n3. No minority hold-outs (if 3 of the 4 (or 2 of the 3) playing drop a double, the last player has to take the drop as well). EXCEPTION: if there are only two players on the team, one person dropping is not a majority – if the captain drops or gets dropped, the #2 moves up to the captain mid-game.<\/p>\n

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3-point Tournament at Circa 33 on Belmont, 3:30 PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Sunday November 13<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Play 3-point matches, double elimination tournament. The stakes are optional – there will be a $5 side pool running.<\/p>\n

Crawford rule will be in effect for all matches.<\/p>\n

This event will repeat on the second Sunday<\/span><\/span> of each month through the spring.<\/p>\n

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Not so local, but the Las Vegas Open<\/strong> runs November 16-20<\/span><\/span>. See http:\/\/www.nvbg.com\/<\/a> for details. I happened to be in Vegas last week for a conference, and went to the local Tuesday<\/span><\/span> night tournament – nice group of folks. First match I was in, I had the honor of being killed by Howard Markowitz, who organizes the Open. Turns out he has a lot of Portland connections… as we build the local scene, I hope we’ll see him up here one day and I can have another try at him.<\/p>\n

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Choutte at Lucky Labs on Hawthorne, 1:00-5:00 Saturday November 5th Assuming Martin shows, we’ll have one board playing for $3 to $5 per point, and Rob has stated that he’ll run a board at $0.50 per point. We’ll have at most\u00a0 5 players per board. Bring a board or at least your own doubling cube. … Continue reading “Portland Backgammon November 2016 Events”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}