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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Give the Gift of Backgammon

Got a gamer on your holiday list but they aren't into the game of poker? Try a backgammon set for a gift that will please!

Backgammon is a challenging game that combines both skill and a little bit of luck as players sit across from each other with the object of moving their pieces to the other side. As the pieces are moved to the other side of the board - numbers one through six are assigned to the final row and as the corresponding number is rolled, the backgammon pieces are removed from the board. The winner is the player that can remove all their pieces from the backgammon board.

Backgammon is a wonderful impromptu game that is easy for anyone to learn, kids love the game and adults are always glad to play. A wonderful gift idea would be to combine this fun backgammon board with the gift of a small table to play on. Some small console tables will fold up until needed and others will have a single drawer that will keep the backgammon game stashed out of the way until it's time to be used.

If you've been racking your brain trying to come up with a great gift for a person that loves games, make it backgammon this year!

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Thursday, December 06, 2007

World Series of Poker Legend Dies

This week, we had to say goodbye to David "Chip" Reese.

You may not know the name immediately but you'd recognize him immediately if you saw him as a star who anchored one of the biggest cash games in the world and won three World Series of Poker bracelets. Reese passed away in his sleep and was only 56-years old and had been suffering from pneumonia symptoms for about a week.

Considered one of the best poker players in the world, Reese had initially been a student at Dartmouth College and wound up in Las Vegas on a whim and found he had a talent for playing poker like none other and wound up staying and making poker his profession.

Despite winning three World Series bracelets over the last four decades, including a $1.8 million HORSE event in 2005 that combines five poker disciplines, Reese focused his attention on high-stakes cash games away from the limelight. Reese was part of a generation of players in the 1970s that challenged established greats like Brunson, Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr. and Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson.

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