{"id":45,"date":"2016-12-31T22:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-12-31T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:48:53","slug":"january-2017-portland-backgammon-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"January 2017 Portland Backgammon Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second Saturday Tournament<\/strong> 3:00-6:00 1\/8\/2017 at Circa 33<\/p>\n

3pm for warm-up games, Tournament Games start at 3:30.<\/p>\n

Tournament games are 3-point matches with Crawford rule. The idea is that a short match lets even a beginner occasionally get lucky against a pro, and it also lets us get through the matches fairly quick. We do not use game clocks but quick play is encouraged. Tournament structure can be either a double-elimination bracket or a round-robin, depending on turnout – we try to make it so everyone gets at least two matches. Once you’re out of the running, though, feel free to stick around for more one-off games.<\/p>\n

Tournament stakes are optional – those that choose to can ante in. Those that don’t wish to can opt out. If you were “in” and you win, Payday! (actual ante, payout schedule, etc. TBD by Mark or guest host – typically top two or three walk away with something.)<\/p>\n

Saturday Chouette<\/strong> 1:00-5:00 1\/14 at Lucky Lab on Hawthorne<\/p>\n

We’ll have at most 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

Past few months, we’ve done this one the first Saturday of the month, but this month that would be two days in a row of backgammon with our second Sunday tournament; probably go back to first Saturday again in February…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second Saturday Tournament 3:00-6:00 1\/8\/2017 at Circa 33 3pm for warm-up games, Tournament Games start at 3:30. Tournament games are 3-point matches with Crawford rule. The idea is that a short match lets even a beginner occasionally get lucky against a pro, and it also lets us get through the matches fairly quick. We do … Continue reading “January 2017 Portland Backgammon 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-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}