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weimy froob
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backgammon

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any people playing this game on the regular?

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The Chaos of the Dice
A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge.
By Raffi Khatchadourian

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Falafel can make ten thousand dollars in half an hour, but he lives out of a suitcase.

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey Natanzon, but no one calls him that, not even his mother, who calls him Mike, the name that he adopted when they emigrated from Israel to Buffalo—one leg in a long journey that began in Soviet Russia. Now even Falafel calls himself Falafel.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013 ... f-the-dice
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