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High stakes backgammon was a TV series capturing world class match-play backgammon from the 2005 World Championships in Monte Carlo.
Hosted by Kara Scott, commentary by Paul Magriel and John Clark.
Production Company, 8mm Productions Series Producer, Andy Bell Producer/Director, Gavin McGarry
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Backgammon is a member of the large family of tables game whose history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archaeological discoveries in the Jiroft culture, of Persia. Its immediate ancestor was the 16th-century game of Irish, the Anglo-Scottish equivalent of the French Toutes Tables and Spanish Todas Tablas, the latter being recorded by Alfonso X in his 1283 work, El Libro de los Juegos.
Blake Edwards was an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter.
Tables games are a class of board games that includes backgammon and which are played on a tables board, typically with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points". Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces. Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many variants are played throughout the world. They are called "tables" games because the boards consist of four quadrants called tables in French. They should not be confused with table games which are casino gambling games like roulette or blackjack.
A showrunner is the leading producer of a television series. In United States network television they are typically credited as an executive producer. Alternatively they may be credited as a producer, or in local news, news director. A showrunner has creative and management responsibility for a television series' production through combining the responsibilities of employer and, in comedy or dramas, typically also character creator, head writer, and script editor, or in animation, a story editor. In films, the director has creative control of a production, but in television, the showrunner outranks the episodic directors.
Gustav Hansen is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, one WSOP bracelet and the 2007 Aussie Millions main event, and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Before turning to playing poker professionally in 1997, Hansen was already a world class backgammon player and a youth tennis champion.
Jason Lester is a professional poker player who has also lived in New York City and Los Angeles. He currently resides in Miami, FL. He is also an exceptional backgammon player and has won many tournaments in the past, but now he focuses on poker. He finished in 4th place at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the year Chris Moneymaker won the event. Lester was also involved in the film Lucky You, starring Robert Duvall, Eric Bana, and Drew Barrymore, in which he played himself, among other poker stars.
The First Internet Backgammon Server (FIBS) began operating on July 19, 1992, allowing users to play backgammon in real-time against other people. It was hosted on the Internet, and could track player performance using a modified version of the Elo rating system.
Paul David Magriel Jr. was an American professional backgammon player, poker player, and author based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Mario's Game Gallery is a compilation of games published by Interplay Productions and developed by Presage Software, Inc. for DOS, Windows and Macintosh. It was released in 1995 in the United States. It was later re-released as Mario's FUNdamentals for Macintosh in 1996, and for Windows in January 1997, though it was published by Mindscape for the DOS and Windows versions and by Stepping Stone for the Macintosh version. It was also developed by Brainstorm Entertainment.
Kit Woolsey is an American bridge and backgammon player. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2005.
William Gerard Robertie is a backgammon, chess, and poker player and author. He is one of five backgammon players to have won the World Backgammon Championship twice. Robertie also won the Pro-Am in the Bahamas in the year 1993 and the Istanbul World Cup in 1994. In chess, Robertie won the 1970 U.S. Speed Chess tournament.
William Eisenberg is an American bridge and backgammon professional. In bridge, Eisenberg has won five Bermuda Bowl world team titles and he won the backgammon world title in 1975. Eisenberg is World Bridge Federation (WBF) and American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master. He lived in Boca Raton, Florida, as of 1994 and 1998.
Kara Scott is a Canadian British TV personality, journalist and poker player.
World Series of Backgammon (WSOB) is a major televised live tour. The television shows capture the match action, jeopardy and background around some of the world’s largest backgammon tournaments, and have broadcast throughout Europe on Eurosport 1 and 2 whilst being distributed worldwide by ESPN International.
Abraham Mosseri is an American professional backgammon and poker player from New York City, New York, who won the 2009 World Series of Poker $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball event.
Leon Herbert is an English actor, director, writer and producer. Herbert is known for appearances in films including Salome's Last Dance (1988), Scandal (1989), Batman (1989), Alien 3 (1992), Double X: The Name of the Game (1992), Point of No Return (1993), The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995), Fierce Creatures (1997), Lucinda's Spell (1998), South West 9 (2001), 9 Dead Gay Guys (2002) and Dark Floors (2008).
Emotional Backgammon is a 2003 British independent comedy-drama about couples strategizing to repair relationships, with unexpected results. The film was written by Leon Herbert and Matthew Hope, directed by Herbert, and stars Herbert, Wil Johnson, Daniela Lavender, and Jacqueline de Peza. It is Herbert's first feature-length film. During its development it was featured on UK Channel 4's Movie Virgins series; upon its release, it received mixed reviews.
Richard W. Munchkin is an American writer, director, producer, radio host and professional gambler.