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The Blackpool Imperial Cup is ON!

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Live Backgammon is Back!

Yes – we will all be playing together in The Lancastrian Suite!

Kev Jones, Mark Calderbank and I have decided to run the Blackpool Imperial Cup this year albeit on a slightly later date – the weekend of 25th-27th June. We are confident that with the cooperation and support of players and the hotel we can make the comeback a success. We fully expect all events that usually take place will go ahead including the popular triples, poker and traditional Sunday evening curry night out. As well as our regular valued board sponsors 869-BG (Erhan) and Bone Club, we are delighted to welcome Gammoner as a new sponsor. You will be able to win one of their superb boards in the ‘Gammoner Trophy’.

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2019 Blackpool Imperial Cup

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First of all, we would like to thank all 128 players for making 2019 a sell-out.

Friday evening action

Many players took advantage of the cheap Thursday night hotel rates to arrive early and miss the Friday traffic. This resulted in over 70 players being in the room at 2pm on Friday for the first of our added money Freerolls, and what proved to be the very popular cashouts (an idea we stole from Roger Porter).

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Jon Barnes wins the Blackpool Imperial Cup

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First of all, well done to Jon for winning the Blackpool event after beating Eric McAlpine in the final.
Jon Barnes (L) v Simon Hopper, on the way to the title
The weekend started at 2pm Friday with 64 players turning up to contest the first Freeroll of the weekend. Later that afternoon Steve Bibby ran his new and innovative “Rebuy Blitz”. Moving into the evening we had a total of 91 players across two events.
Saturday saw the start of the main event and 120 players fighting it out over 5 swiss matches to get into one of the 32 qualifying places up for grabs.

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Blackpool Imperial Cup update

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In less than a week many of you will be taking the annual trip to Blackpool to battle it out for the Imperial Cup.

Those of you who have entered should have,in the past couple of days, received an email with lots of important information to digest, please take a few minutes out to read it as there are some important changes this year.

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Review: The Blackpool Imperial Cup 2017

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First of all, a big thank you to the 102 players who attended the Blackpool Imperial Cup this weekend helping to make it such a successful event. We are proud to be able to say it is now the biggest single flight tournament in the UK, with players from Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Ireland and Singapore making the journey to join us.

 

Finalist Daniel Molan and winner Frank Fleming (photos: Martin Barkwill)

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