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Michael Senkiewicz is another veteran U.S. backgammon player and has been voted as one of the top #32 Giants of Backgammon since its inception in 1993. Mike was the #1 Giant of Backgammon in 1995 and was voted #2 in two of the other Giants polls over the years.

Senkiewicz won the Championship flight of the first New York Metropolitan Open & World Doubles Championship in 2008, a new event being organized in Jersey City by Director Howard Markowitz of Las Vegas fame. In the final of that tournament, he defeated John O'Hagan, the current #19 Giant and Runner-Up of the 2005 Monte Carlo World Backgammon Championship.

At the same tournament, Senkiewicz, partnered with the then #26 Backgammon Giant, Kent Goulding, and won the World Doubles competition in an exciting final against Ed O'Laughlin (current Giant #22) and Howard Markowitz. In 2006, Senkiewicz, with partner Tim Lawless, were the finalists of World Doubles Backgammon Championship that was held in Las Vegas.

In addition to countless other money places and Super Jackpot wins over the years, “Senk” as he sometimes referred to, was the Champion at the Michigan Summer Championships at Novi, Michigan in 2000 and came second in the Consolation of the 129-player Championship flight at the 1998 World Cup Challenge IV in Istanbul, Turkey.