Tuesday 9th June 2026

We had 33 players tonight.

Deputy Sheriff Mike ran the night as Gary was playing his Giantslayer match with hopeful slayer Danny. Gary prevailed 9-6 thus keeping his 203 ladder points which were at stake.

Jim Malafouris and Aslin were the two drawn jackpots but neither rose to the task.

FINAL	TOT
RANKING	PTS
Kee Yio Wan	314
Peter Voulgaris	313
David Reitzin	312
Ben Anderson	310
Jan Spillekom	208
Angelo Voulgaris	207
Jeremy Whitelaw	207
Aram Amirghan	206
Jenny Saunders	205
Mike Baldwin	205
Mohammad Nejati	205
Antonio Andolfo	204
Morteza Shaabanifar	204
Gary Stavrou	201
Sadra Mobayyen	200
Jim Malafouris	199
Bill Bouzianis	198
Simon Wattle	198
Joseph El-Alam	101
Richard Broug	99
Farshad Hamidi	99
Susan Wan	98
Jim Bean	97
Zhiman Rahmati	95
Aslin Sagnaklar	94
Carol Wakelin	94
Nick Macoun	93
Rafael Chattah	92
Michel Gerges	87
Mahnaz Rostami	-7
Tony Giannoulis	-8
Sarah Bauling	-15
Robin Lanesman	-15

Jim Malafouris

 

Tuesday June 2nd 2026

 30 players turned up to play tonight.

Michel Gerges was declared player of the month for May and was granted free entry to the tournament.

Two jackpot players were drawn, Mehdi Kiani and Michel Gerges but neither manage to take the prize.

Danny Assabgy was the chosen Giantslayer to take on ladder leader Gary Stavrou.

FINAL	TOT
RANKING	PTS
Kee Yio Wan	315
Michel Gerges	312
Morteza Shaabanifar	311
David Reitzin	309
Deniz Agdiran	207
Susan Wan	207
Simon Wattle	206
Angelo Voulgaris	205
Aram Amirghan	203
Zhiman Rahmati	202
Danny Assabgy	201
Jim Bean	201
Rafael Chattah	201
Peter Voulgaris	199
Mehdi Kiani	197
Robin Lanesman	101
Richard Broug	100
Sadra Mobayyen	99
Carol Wakelin	99
Jim Malafouris	98
Mike Baldwin	98
Mohammad Nejati	95
Paula O'Connell	95
Gary Stavrou	94
Antonio Andolfo	93
Bruce Stephens	91
Nick Macoun	-6
Mahnaz Rostami	-9
Jenny Saunders	-13
Farshad Hamidi	-14

Susan and Nick

Sadra

Morty

Bruce and David

Paula

A wistful Zhiman

Tuesday May 26th

 Three dozen players graced our game tonight including two newbies Amin Soleimanipour and Lisa Whiston.

Hardly new to backgammon, but we also welcomed Ben Phillips on his first visit to Sydney Backgammoners club night. Ben has won our Sydney Open multiple times but only managed to win one of his three matches tonight. We look forward to regularly seeing him on wet Tuesdays when his regular tennis game is cancelled.

FINAL	TOT
RANKING	PTS
Zhiman Rahmati	319
David Reitzin	313
Morteza Shaabanifar	312
Farshad Hamidi	309
Michel Gerges	210
Steve Clarry	208
Paula O'Connell	208
Kee Yio Wan	207
Joseph El-Alam	206
Simon Wattle	206
Gary Stavrou	205
David Burman	205
Carol Wakelin	204
Mohammad Nejati	203
Rafael Chattah	201
Richard Broug	201
Lisa Whiston	199
Antonio Andolfo	196
Mike Baldwin	99
Ben Phillips	99
Angelo Voulgaris	98
Jim Bean	98
Jim Malafouris	98
Breck McCormack	96
Robbie Baudish	96
Amin Soleimanipour	94
Deniz Agdiran	94
Mahnaz Rostami	94
Nick Macoun	94
Adam Makda	93
Sadra Mobayyen	93
Andrew Mowbray	92
Aram Amirghan	-7
Susan Wan	-11
Bruce Stephens	-16
Danny Assabgy	-16

The mob listens to Gary's ramblings

Ben Phillips enjoying his first night at our club

Robbie and Simon

Newcomer Lisa Whiston

Michel is happy with his roll

Farshad is happy to have won all his matches

Richard punches himself over that blunder

"I can't believe I rolled that" says Antonio

Susan Wan

Bruce makes his move

Zhiman recording the scores

Looks like Aram is bearing off four checkers

Tuesday May 19th 2026

 We had 37 players tonight including, for his first visit, Deniz Agdiran's father, Mehmet.

Mehdi Kiani was the drawn jackpot. After a brilliant 7-0 win in the first round, Mehdi had his hopes by Sadra in round 2.

FINAL	TOT
RANKING	PTS
Sadra Mobayyen	313
Michel Gerges	309
Aslin Sagnaklar	307
Robbie Baudish	306
Nick Macoun	304
Zhiman Rahmati	212
Jim Bean	212
Yalli Pleshet	210
Mehdi Kiani	207
David Reitzin	206
Breck McCormack	206
Paula O'Connell	205
Morteza Shaabanifar	205
Aram Amirghan	204
Mike Baldwin	201
Carol Wakelin	200
Jenny Saunders	200
Mahnaz Rostami	198
Angelo Voulgaris	104
Deniz Agdiran	99
Richard Broug	99
Ali Ghadiri	99
Gary Stavrou	98
Jim Malafouris	97
Kee Yio Wan	97
Ken Kershaw	97
Bill Bouzianis	95
Peter Voulgaris	94
Mohammad Nejati	94
Farshad Hamidi	94
Joseph El-Alam	93
Antonio Andolfo	89
Paul Barnett	-10
Mehmet Agdiran	-12
Rafael Chattah	-12
Susan Wan	-16