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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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Paul Gilbertson: A Tribute

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Tim Parfitt writes:
Paul Gilbertson, a friend to many and a very popular member of the backgammon community, sadly passed away on Wednesday 30th May 2018 after a suspected heart attack.
Paul in Venice (photo with thanks to Tim Parfitt)
Paul was definitely my best friend in the backgammon world and a good mate out of it. We were only introduced a few years ago by a mutual friend, and because of our love of dogs made an instant connection. Paul’s dog Dexter and my Suki became the best of friends too. For a time he lived close to me in Brighton and I looked after Dexter many times when Paul was often in Monaco helping to start up the Monte Carlo Backgammon Club.

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