Review

PartyGaming
PartyGaming entered the online backgammon gaming industry in June 2006, with their backgammonroom PartyGammon. PartyGaming owns 4 brands: PartyPoker, PartyCasino, PartyBingo and PartyGammon. PartyPoker was launched in 2001 and soon became the biggest online pokerroom, and now PartyGaming will try to achieve the same in the backgammon industry. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker: PRTY. They are based in Gibraltar and the Group has over 1,200 employees.

PartyAccount
When you want to play you first have to create an account. This PartyAccount can be used for every brand of PartyGaming and your real balance can therefore be used to play backgammon, but also for the casino, to play poker and to play bingo. You can fund the account using a creditcard (Visa, Mastercard), FPS-ePassport, Entropay, NETeller, Money Transfer, Bank Wire Transfer and Moneybookers. The minimum deposit amount is $50.

Software
Now let's take a look at the software. This is what the lobby of PartyGammon looks like:

In the topleft corner you see some quick details of your account: your nickname, real balance and PartyPoints. Below this you can see the latest News&Events that PartyGammon brings you.

In the middle column you can choose a category in which you like to play a game, let it be real money or play money. In these categories you can choose between BackGammon, Hypergammon and Nackgammon.

The right column gives you a list of the games that are currently being played and games that are waiting for an opponent to join. If you like to play you can either create a new game, or join a waiting player.

Below the board one can see the pipcount. Besides the count, there is a clock for each player that is ticking with every turn. When your clock runs out of time the timebank will start encounting.