Millionaire Backgammon Tourney

Published: Friday, September 02, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

MILLIONAIRE BACKGAMMON TOURNEY

Ancient bacgammon game continues to grow in modern popularity

The ancient Persian game backgammon has been achieving considerable online popularity recently, and this week received a further boost with the announcement that UK Betting has signed up to be the main sponsor of the upcoming Backgammon Million tournament.

The company plans an online campaign and will help produce TV coverage of the event, which is believed to be the richest backgammon tournament in history. The event is also likely to be broadcast on Sportal, the sports content portal owned by ukbetting, which has relaunched as a live sports TV channel.