Partygammon

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Website: www.partygammon.com
Operated by: Partygaming

PartyGammon is a part of Party gambling group which operates one of the largest online poker sites: Party Poker, which has established quite the reputation for itself as one of the most popular Poker sites globally, at least until they were outlawed from capturing the US market. PartyGammon was making history with the first backgammon tournament ever, that had a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million, that tournament was held at the Bahamas in 2007!

PartyGammon offers cash games, matches and sit and go or scheduled tournaments, to play for real or play money. The majority of the games played are regular money games, but you will find opponents for matches as well. At PartyGammon you can play up to four games simultaneously, while in poker this might be ok, in backgammon this makes no sense.

To new customers PartyGammon will give cash bonuses on top of your deposits.

Deposit Methods:

Mastercard
Neteller
Visa
Firepay
EC / ELV
Paysafe Card
moneybookers
eChecksby IGMPay
Western Union
Wire Transfers
Citadel, Bank Drafts
Cashier Checks
Money Orders
Personal Checks

Software:

The PartyGammon software has to be downloaded and installed. The software appears pretty impressive and realistic at first glance, with its 3D style boards, see the screenshots on top. The checkers can be moved both by clicking (highest number first) on them or simply drag and drop the checkers. A nice feature for beginners is the one that shows where a checker can move, once you hover with your mouse over the checker.
The non resizable boards (see screenshot at the top) are similar in size and perspective to those of GammonEmpire and Play65. Games and matches can be played with these time settings:

Normal 45 seconds per move and 3 minutes global time
Fast 30 seconds per move and 2 minutes global time
Express 15 seconds per move and 1 minute global time

Some features will need improvement to match its competitors. There is no option for 2D view and no skins to choose from.

For the game analysis, your saved games are stored by default in C:\[%Program Files%]\PartyGaming\PartyGammon\SavedGames\. Officially PartyGammon is not using a rating system anymore, at least there is no rating shown in the lobby. However if you open the saved files with a regular text editor (e.g.: notepad) you will see that there still is a rating assigned to the players, this could be quite useful for you.

Commission - Rake

Money Game

Combined Wager	Commission %
$0 - $19	5%
$20 - $99	4%
$100 +	2.75%

Example: If you win a gammon game (2 points) with an initial sum involved of $5, then $9.20 will be added to your account and $10 will be deducted from your opponents balance. The commission is 4% * $20= $0.80

Match

Combined Wager	Commission %
$0 - $19	base commission (for 1 point): 4%, every additional point: +0.25%, max commission: 7%
$20 - $99	base commission (for 1 point): 3%, every additional point: +0.25%, max commission: 6%
$100 +	base commission (for 1 point): 2.75%, every additional point: +0.25%, max commission: 5%

Example: You play a match up to 3 points with sum involved of $20. The rake for a 3-point match has a base commission of 3%+2*0.25%=3.5% The commission from each player is
$20*3.5%=$0.70 (the winner pays both their commissions, for a total of $1.40). $18.60 will be added to the winners balance and $20 will be deducted from the losers balance.

Additional Rules

A maximum $5 commission (CAP) per player when rating of both players is over 1650.
Decrease of 50% in commissions if the rating of both players is over 1700.
Increase of 50% in commissions when the rating difference is 100 to 199.
Double commission when the rating difference is 200 or more
(Two and one half) commission when the rating difference is 250 or more.
Triple commission when the rating difference is 300 or more.

There will be occasions when the calculation of the rake will be based on a combination of two or more exceptions.

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last update: Friday, April 23, 2010