Backgammon Room Comparison

Where can you play the best online backgammon tournaments? Which backgammon room offers the largest bonuses? In this online backgammon room comparison you will find the answers to these questions and more.

Backgammon Software

Play65 software is freeware. Its features include 3D backgammon board and realistic sounds, 100% random dice, BG school for beginners (where one can practice playing against the computer), chat and instant messaging modules. 

4.9% on a money game played on less than $50

3.9% on $50-$100 game

2.9% - over $100

In a match game, the basic rake for an up to $50 game is 4.9%, plus 0.5% for every additional point, with maximum commission of up to 9.9%.

$50-$100 – from 4.4% to 8.9%

Over $100 – from 3.9% to 7.9%

Additionally, to encourage games between players of even skill level, Play65 increases the rake taken on games taken with players with different rating level.

Play65 backgammon tournaments are one of the backgammon room greatest advantages; on top of the sit and go's in wide range of entry fees, and the daily freerolls, the site features a bi-monthly event with $30,000 1st prize. Moreover, Play65 often hosts qualifiers to some of the most prestigious backgammon tournaments in the world including the WSOB final in Cannes.

New Play65 members, fun money players or real money players, are automatically awarded with a free $5 bonus. Real money players get 20% bonus on their first deposit. The tell-a-friend bonus offers $20 to the referring player and $10 to the friend.

Special Features

•   New: choice between a wooden board and a leather board

• Pip count function
• Community features including a chat module and a new instant messaging button that allow players to invite their friends to sit & go tournaments
• Game history option available for both real money and fun money players  
• Automatic roll function
• Qualifier tournaments to the largest backgammon events in the world
  

BG Room

Similar to Play65, BG Room has download software, free and real money online backgammon games, all types of tournaments, bonuses and promotions. The site is currently translated into 14 languages including English, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic and others.

BG Room software is very easy to use. After downloading, the player is asked to choose between playing a real time mode and a practice mode, and in both cases, after registration is done, between starting a table and joining one.

3.9% in single games, 4.9% in a 3-points match game; extra 0.5% for a 4-7 points match game and so on. The minimum rake is 25 cents. Additionally, the rake increases when the two players are from different ranking groups.

BG Room offers sit & go, event, satellite and freeroll tournaments. Only in the latter, practice players can join. The prizes in the weekly tournament range from $500 to $2,500.

New players, who register at the real money mode, can win $5 welcome bonus. In addition, there are the 30% first deposit bonus and the $50 refer-a-friend bonus.

Special Features

 3 game types: blitz, normal and slow

Backgammon Masters

Backgammon Masters is a backgammon site, poker room and an online casino in one URL. Registered members can juggle between the four different games (backgammon, poker, blackjack and Perudo) without having to open a new account.

Backgammon Masters software is very realistic and user-friendly, and the randomness of the dice was approved by iTech Labs an objective company that specializes in reviewing online skill games sites.

The rake taken in Backgammon Masters varies by the type of game and size of stake; in single games played on $2.5-$10 the rake begins with $0.23 up to $0.90. In the high roller rooms, the rake is 5.80$ on a $100 single game and $46.40 if the stake is $800.

In match games, the rake begins with $0.42 on a $10 3-points game and can be $5.10 on a $100 7-points game. Again, commission decreases with the difference between the two players' rating.

Backgammon Masters offers sit & gos, satellites and freerolls. The freerolls tournaments are held daily, 6 times a day, with total prize of $750.

Match up bonus – 100% match up of the player's real money up to $200 deposit.

Welcome bonus – from 20% bonus on a $50 1st deposit to a 133% on a $75 1st deposit.

Special Features

HyperBackgammon – a faster backgammon variation played with 3 checkers each

Choice between automatic and manual rolls

Private play – so the game becomes invisible to a third party

Open table – when the player can play for a stake and limit of his choice.