Pokerzone has commissioned TV production company, 8mm Productions to produce a 4 hour series capturing the action at this year's World Backgammon Championships in Monte Carlo has started an exciting chain of events to catapult backgammon into the limelight.Historically known as a game of skill and sophistication, backgammon has many admirers but as the coverage of skill games increases, can backgammon rival the fame of Poker? Definitively yes answers Patti Rubin, Executive Producer for 8mm Productions forthcoming match-play backgammon series.
"Backgammon is more sophisticated and intelligent than other games, and what I think this production will do is renew the interest for players who had ventured into other gaming areas," explained Rubin. "The power of television coverage is immense. You only have to look at the difference it has made to poker, before television, there were perhaps 60 entrants at the WSOP and this year, as poker’s coverage peaks, 6,000 players entered this year. People actually wait in line for an autograph from the winners. Because of television, the leading players have become superstars. Therefore I think the media interest in backgammon will bring a lot of people back to the game, as backgammon already has so much going for it."
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