“We just open a board, and whoever wants to play can play,” said one of the founding Greenpoint members to The Post, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the bad blood around the schism. But Remington Davenport, a California transplant who made the NYC Backgammon Club so popular, she was able to ditch her sales job to run the club full-time, downplayed the “beef” — and extended an olive branch to the insurgent group after The Post started asking around. Davenport allegedly sent a series of messages telling the players they weren’t allowed to form a spinoff on her “territory” without paying her, effectively trying to absorb the Greenpoint Backgammon Club into her “ambassador” program, members of the offshoot said.
Author: Katherine Donlevy
Published at: 2026-01-19 21:56:19
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