Our guest this week is backgammon expert Bob Wachtel, who discusses his two volume book, “The Backgammon Chronicles: A Pro’s Adventures On Tour.” We welcome your questions – send them to us at [email protected], or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download Show Notes [00:00] […]
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A Look at Robert Wachtel’s The Backgammon Chron...
Robert Wachtel is a world-class backgammon player — Richard Munchkin and I have each known him for more than forty years. He recently self-published a two-volume set of Chronicles which I read and enjoyed. While Bob will be a guest in the near future on Gambling with an Edge, I thought I’d give readers a […]
Podcast – Bob Wachtel, part 2
Backgammon expert Bob Wachtel pays us a return visit, discussing some of the colorful players (and cheats!) of the good old days, plus how the game today is different than it was a few decades ago. We welcome your questions – send them to us at [email protected], or you can find me at @RWM21 on […]
Podcast – Bob Wachtel
Our guest this week is backgammon expert Bob Wachtel, who discusses his book “In the Game Until the End: Winning in Ace-Point Endgames.” Wachtel and both co-hosts knew each other at the Cavendish West backgammon club in the late 1970s and we discuss how each of the backgammon clubs of the era was a bit […]
A Look at In the Game Until the End: Winning in...
From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, I played backgammon regularly at the Cavendish West Club in greater Los Angeles. Through much of that period, a man named Bob Wachtel also frequented the club. I got to be a strong intermediate backgammon player. I learned to stay out of the same games that Wachtel played […]
A Certain Kind of Approach
A month or two ago, I mentioned on the Gambling with an Edge podcast that I have a buddy with two kids — “Jack,” 12 years old and “Mary Ann,” 10 years old — who are becoming fascinated with the game of backgammon. I’ve agreed to provide them with some backgammon instructions, and I’m enjoying […]
Podcast – Listener emails
We have no guest this week. Bob and I answer listener emails, and then discuss lessons we learned about gambling from starting out in backgammon. podcast Click to listen – Alt-click to download Show Notes
Lessons from Backgammon, Part 1 of 2
From 1974 through 1980, I averaged 80-100 hours per week playing or studying backgammon. For the next 12 years, I had a job (because I lost my bankroll playing backgammon) and reduced my backgammon time to an average of about 15 hours per week. In 1994, I began playing video poker and haven’t played significant […]
Gambling With an Edge – guest James Vogl
Our guest this week is James Vogl. James is a former backgammon, and poker player (He won a WSOP bracelet at 24.) who then moved into the world of hedge funds. Now he has moved on from the trading world to start something called The Cerebral Gym. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to […]
Podcast – guest Kit Woolsey
Our guest this week is bridge and backgammon expert Kit Woolsey. We talk about his recent book The Backgammon Encyclopedia Volume 2 as well as some of his stories from years of playing bridge and backgammon at the highest levels. podcast Click to listen. Alt click to download Show Notes [00:53] The difference between the […]
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