Today, 31st of January, Independence Day is celebrated in the Republic of Nauru in the South Pacific. It is also Justin Timberlake’s birthday and International Leprosy Day. But, that’s not why Play65 is running a $5,000 backgammon tournament (though you are invited to donate your earnings to a leprosy trust of your choice).

In fact, there is no special reason for running a +5K tournament tonight at 20:30 GMT with $58 buy-in, 16 winners and $850 as first prize.

Satellite to the $5,000 tournament will begin on 18:45 GMT with only $8 buy in.

Backgammon Championship on C64 is one of the oldest ancestors of Play65 online backgammon. Not yet in the real-time, multi-player sense, still a primary alternative to live backgammon.

Find the differences:

Another Online Backgammon Advantage

You might not know, but when playing backgammon on Play65, you can cancel your last movement by pressing Ctrl + Z on your keyboard.

Play65 is happy to introduce a new tournament, Pacific Time $300+, plus new and improved satellite tournaments.

Play65 Goes Pacific

The new $300+ Pacific Time tournament will take place every Saturday at 18:00 PM PST (Pacific Standard Time); Europeans and Middle Easterns can set the alarm clock to 02:00 (GMT) on Sunday. The entry free for the tournament is only $5 and the prize pool split between the top 16 players; the winner will go home with at least $112.

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New Satellite Tournaments

Play65 satellite tournaments now allow more players to win great prizes: entry fees to a bigger event or cash prizes. For example, if the number of entrants to a satellite was higher than the required minimum, then the finalist wins the rest of the prize pool (minus commission). If the number of players is twice the minimum – the winner and the finalist get free entry to the bigger tournament. If the number of players is bigger than twice the minimum, then the two finalist receive free entries and the semi-finalists share the rest of the prize pool.

Note that there are two types of satellite tournaments in Play65:

Sit & Gos - with undetermined time and limited number of participants – can be found in the game lobby by clicking on the Sit and Go tab -> Satellite tab
And Event satellites – with predetermined date and time, unlimited number of participants and a prize pool that grows according to the number of players - available on the Satellites tab in the Tournaments tab in the game lobby.