Presenting players with an excellent combination of skill and luck, backgammon is fast on its way towards becoming the next big thing after online poker. Yes, that’s right, backgammon is a predominantly skill-based game, where luck plays a part in the big picture as well. Online backgammon rooms take a rake similar to the poker rake , so the two games are rather alike in that respect, too. In order to beat your opponent, you need to learn the game itself and its strategic aspects well, or at least better than your opponent.
There are backgammon computer programs out there, you can use to play against and learn. The more like a computer you play, obviously, the better results you’ll have against human opponents. Beating a human, is fortunately much easier than beating a computer. Human players will have flaws in their strategy and they’ll make mistakes in their play. All you need to do, is exploit those mistakes. Much like in online poker, most of the money is not made playing against really skilled, almost computer-like human opponents, but against those “fish” who have but a few clues about how they should play the game.
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