Wednesday October 27, 2021

 An exclusive little group of 14 gathered for tonight's play.

 Jennifer Saunders was picked as the jackpot player but was unsuccessful this time.

 

 At the end of a few hours of robust play, the winners were:

 

1^st    David Reitzin

 

2^{nd   Rafael Chattah}

 

3^{rd    John Symon}

^{4th    Hammon Mans}

 

Looking forward to a bigger turnout next Wednesday and a great weekend of play at the Canada Bay Club on the 6th  and 7^th of November

A six shot - from the back Hammon Mans and Rafael Chattah, Garry Byrne and Angelo Voulgaris and Kee Yio and Jenny Saunders

John Symon  and Jim Bean  go head to head with an interested Angelo Voulgaris watching from the sidelines

Wednesday October 20, 2021

 This was our 2^nd post-freedom night of play and our numbers increased to 17 players .

 

Carol Wakelin was drawn as the jackpot player but the dice were not her friends and she failed to capitalise on the opportunity.

 

The final results were:

 

1^st     Hammon Mans 

 

2^nd    Gary Stavrou

 

3^rd     David Reitzin

4th    David Layman

 

See you all next week! 

A happpy Hammon Mans battles David Layman with observers Breck McCormack and Angelo Voulgaris  watching from the sidelines.

John Symon and David Reitzin and in a very even match watched by Garry Byrne and Rafael Chattah.

Wednesday October 13 2021

 WE ARE BACK!!!

Finally, after 4 long months of lockdown, The Sydney Backgammoners resumed play at North Ryde RSL last night.

Fourteen keen players fronted up with boards and masks in hand to play face to face. 

Unfortunately , one player was turned away at the door as he only had a photo copy of his covid vaccination certificate , not a digital record.

John Symon was drawn as the fist jackpot player of the new season but was not able to take advantage of the situation .

Gary commented that, in spite of the lockdown, our club will have met more than half the year (34 out of 49 meetings). Therefore the Ladder would continue as usual and the ladder leader at the end of the year would be declared 2021 Club Champion. However, since our kitty collected only half the annual takings, the end-of-year Bonanza winners would have their prizes halved.

 

The winners were:

 1^st    Angelo Voulgaris

 2^nd   Carol Wakelin

 3^rd    Ben Scarf 

 4th   Dilhun Akpinar

More smiling players - Angeo Voulgaris and Dilhun Akpinar on the first night back

Four semi covid-compliant players, John symon and Hammon Mans at the rear and Pouya Azizi and Rafael Chattah in the foreground

Two happy chappies pleased to be back on the boards; Hammon Mans and David Leyman