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Player 1
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#player1 Jonathan_Kent Jonathan Kent
#player2 Samuel_Kaplan Samuel Kaplan
>Jonathan_Kent: ADHOPSZ 8F PHO +16 16
#note Q thinks ADZ is best to start. Not sure I agree with that as it's gonna get hooked fairly often. I would have played ZAP 8G to start. I wonder what his thinking was. It seemed like his range was fairly solid after this one.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EIIOOTV F8 .IVOT +18 18
#note I took a while on this play. I like an open board against Jon, so I made the most open play there was. Q says this is 3rd and 9F OI is best. EIOTV can be OK but it can also have disaster potential.
>Jonathan_Kent: AACDLSZ 11E C.LZA +32 48
#note Nice scoring play. ADZ 7G is best. I got lucky Jon put the Z where he put it as it did bail out my bad rack.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ACEEIOO H11 .OEAE +45 63
#note This is as obvious as it gets.
>Jonathan_Kent: AADELRS 7G AD +13 61
#note Jon missed SALAR(I)ED 9A. This is 5th best. This fish definitely influenced my next play greatly.
>Samuel_Kaplan: CIILOUY -CIILOUY +0 63
#note Q doesn't put my play on the list of suggestions. I didn't like 10I YOU because of where CIIL was headed on this board and knowing that AD was played fairly quickly, if I play through ZOEAE and Jon hooks COLZA, I'm in trouble already. ICY at 6E does score 23 but the problem is ICY doesn't take any hooks and gives back too much. I felt like getting myself out of this mess was the best call. Any thoughts welcome here.
>Jonathan_Kent: AELORST J8 OLESTRA +78 139
#note 2nd best play according to Q. OLEAST(E)R 13B is 3 more.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?BEENTW K2 BETWeEN +74 137
#note Tied for best play.
>Jonathan_Kent: DDDFOTU 6G DUD +16 155
#note 5th best according to Q. I would not have kept 3 Ds like that, ever. This is obviously in reference to OF J5 being best because it scores the most.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EIJOPRT 4H JOT.ER +42 179
#note JITTER in the same spot is a little better with all the unseen Is. Tied for best play scorewise. Next best play is JO 5H. Decided that blowing up the rack for 18 more was worth it here.
>Jonathan_Kent: ?DFIOTX 15B TOXIFi.D +76 231
#note Looked very plausible- DETOXIFY and DETOXIFIED are both good. Apparently you can't toxify* something.
>Samuel_Kaplan: GIIINPT 14E PIT. +20 199
#note 3rd best play. Just PI would have been fine in the same spot.
>Jonathan_Kent: EEFISSY 14A FEY +27 258
#note 2nd best play. FEYES(T) B10 is 13 more.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EGIILNN M4 .ELINING +61 260
#note Yep. Right back in it.
>Jonathan_Kent: ABEIISS N1 BIAS +26 284
#note Q has IBIS slightly higher than this play. I think BIAS is fine.
>Samuel_Kaplan: GIIORSU 3I GI. +13 273
#note Didn't see GUIRO at 5C- I was looking at the ODAH hook and couldn't see something that would go there. My play is 9th. I wanted to get a 2nd lane going for later that I might need knowing Jon has the last S.
>Jonathan_Kent: EEINRSU 1L RU.E +21 305
#note I like RUBE over UNBE in the same spot with 3 unseen Rs and 2 unseen Ns (from his perspective).
>Samuel_Kaplan: AGIORSU L9 GIAOURS +76 349
#note Lucky lucky lucky. Just wow.
>Jonathan_Kent: EILNNSW I10 N.W +14 319
#note NEWB scores 21 more. Jon's play is 2nd best.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEMOUVY N11 OVUM +22 371
#note This was the move of the game right here. Very interesting unseen pool. Jon is obviously keeping very well here. Part of what I needed to do was make sure that it was very unlikely that any bingo was gonna end with an N. I wanted to keep the I in PIVOT open should I draw the Q. It was the only spot for it.

Having said the above, I wanted to make sure that would be able to outrun a potential Q stick. My play is 2nd. SUMY at 15L is 5 more and only gives me 3 chances of drawing the Q. I do stand by my play though as drawing an N can help me outrun a Q stick.
>Jonathan_Kent: EHILMNS A8 HIMSEL. +48 367
#note This was a nice play. The only way Jon could win was by scoring the most as he could draw the Q himself. That was not to be.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEKNQRY 9E Q. +11 382
#note Aaaaand I draw the drek. Sometimes it happens. I didn't see any wins after this. I should have played KERN but then Jon would have Q stuck me and he would have slow played me. Oh well.
>Jonathan_Kent: AACENR B5 ARCANE +25 392
>Jonathan_Kent: (AEKNRY) +26 418
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