Sander Lylloff - Denmark

Lylloff competes for the Trash Talk Championship

26/01/2010

Backgammon and poker player Sander Lylloff is one of the competitors in the Trash Talk Championship, a charity poker tournament to take place on the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, a popular online casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, February 6, 2010, a day before the Super Bowl. Lylloff will be competing against famed poker players as well as charity loving celebrities from Playboy, the art world and the FBI, but unless another one of the backgammon masters will be paying the $1,000 + $70 buy-in entry fees, he will remain the best backgammon player among trash talkers.

The first annual Trash Talk Championship is sponsored by the online poker room Victory Poker, planned to be launched on February 1st, and it donates half of its earnings to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The other half of the prize pool will be divided between the winners, while the champion will also receive a special "celebrity invitational" seat to the World Poker Tour stop in Los Angeles and a custom designed trophy, made of crystal and weights 20 pound.

By approving his participation at the regarded poker championship, Sander Lylloff, who is currently ranked no. 4 on the World Series of Backgammon race, will be absent from one of the longer anticipated events in the backgammon world, the WSOB season III shootout with $480,000 prize. That since the backgammon tournament will take place during the same Super Bowl weekend, except on the other side of the Atlantic, at the Adam Street Club in London.