Wednesday December 15th 2021

We had a very good turnout on this, the last playing night of what has been a very crazy year with 19 players coming to participate.

 First order of business was to award the club Champion's prized Sydney Backgammoners Championship cap and crystal cube to David Reitzin.

 

Next was the draw for the jackpot player of the night and this time Jim Bean was the man with the target on his back, but he managed to evade those wishing to bring him down and scooped up the $103 pot – well done Jim!

 

We also welcomed two new players, hello to Martin Ohlson and Manjid Saghaft, we hope you will come back and play again in 2022.

 

The final results were;

 

1^st      Jim Bean ( plus the jackpot)

 

2^nd     David Reitzin

 

3^rd     Hammon Mans

 

4^th     Breck McCormack 

 

The two ladder bonanza winners were David Reitzin and Jim Bean.

We start the 2022 playing year on January 5 – hope to see you all then – have a safe and happy festive season.

Gary Stavrou and Sydney Backgammoners 2021 Champion David Reitzin

Breck McCormack and the normally camera shy Jim Bean.

Hammon Mans and Dilhun Akpinar ready to do battle.

Bookends ---Rafael Chattah and TD Gray Stavrou both concentrating really really hard.

Wednesday December 8th 2021

Despite being so close to Christmas we still had a respectable 15 players tonight for the penultimate playing night of what has been a very challenging year in so many ways.

The jackpot player was drawn and David Reitzin was on a mission – which proved to be mission impossible – jackpot safe till at least next week.

 

 The final placings were:

 

 1^stequal     Gary Stavrou

 

 1^stequal     John Symon

 

 3^rd              Breck McCormack

 

 4^th              Peter Voulgaris

 

Dilhun Akpinar and Jenny Saunders contemplate their options

The battle of the brothers as Angelo Voulgaris tackles brother Peter

John Symon and Rafael Chattah studying their positions in round 2

 

Wednesday December 1st 2021

A very robust group of 20 fronted up to play tonight – nice to see the numbers back to pre lockdown levels again.

The first item on the pre match agenda was to announce the lucky player of the month who gets their entry fee refunded, and this time Jim Bean got the bonus.

Next was the jackpot player, and once more Rafael Chattah got the guernsey, and once again, the cash stayed in the kitty.

 

Giant killer draw was next, and judging by his reaction, Dilhun Akpinar is relishing the opportunity to relieve David Reitzin of some of his points!

To avoid excessively long nights the Tournament Director made a small change to the way unfinished matches are handled. If the score is even, a simple roll of the dice will determine who receives Match Points.

 

After a VERY long night of play the final results were:

 

 1^st    Peter Voulgaris

 

2^nd   Gary Stavrou 

 

3^rd    Carol Wakelin

 

4^th     Breck McCormack

 

See you all next week !

Three sombre faces as Angelo Voulgaris tackles Gary Stavrou and Rafael Chattah watches from the sidlines

Dilhun Akpinar and John Symon do battle in the 2nd round.