Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley confess their love for the game
Actresses Siena Miller and Keira Knightley, who are in Wales filming the upcoming movie The Edge of Love, recently confessed that instead of spending the nights in local pubs, they prefer to play backgammon.
An operator of UK licensed betting shops and a major international online sportsbook signed an agreement with a leading provider of software for the online gaming industry. Incorporating backgammon was one of the main reasons.
A Spaniard gambler was awarded with a millionaire prize in the Euromillions European lottery through a ticket bought online. The exact prize won by this lucky man was 26.938.896 euros and it is the biggest one given so far for a ticket bought online in the history of Spain.
A Canadian software company with vast experience in the creation of online games, has announced this week in Montreal the latest application developed by them. This time, they have created a backgammon package to be played online, which so far has had a very important acceptance.
Due to the growing popularity of casinos -in which Macau did better than Las Vegas- and the upcoming opening of casinos in Singapore, Japan intends to legalize casinos starting next year – 2008.
Members of the Liberal Democrat Party started an initiative to authorize the casino industry to operate in Japan.
The Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad signed an agreement to include skill games on its website. Besides backgammon, some of the new games will be 8-Ball Pool, Solitaire and Golf Hole-in-One.
Currently, the website offers other online games on its Fun section.
As part of its plan to lead all the world’s main gambling regions, an online game company is about to open offices in Central America. The company is now a step further in portraying itself as the World’s Backgammon Network.
An important online backgammon site has decided to send millionaire heir Paris Hilton an exclusive, personalized backgammon board, to help her pass her jail time. Recently, the young socialite was sentenced to jail time for probation violation, after she was seen driving.
A gaming operator specialized in backgammon spent an important amount of money on Roman Greenberg’s boxing briefs. Greenberg will use the money to improve his boxing techniques. By sponsoring the boxer, the backgammon operator aims to put Greenberg in the World Boxing Organization’s Top Five.
The 3.0 version of the popular peer-to-peer telephony network allows its users to download and play backgammon at no cost. Users have responded positively to this possibility, which has become very popular in the last few months. Four months ago, Skype.com launched Skype Extras.
