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#player1 JJB John J. Bulten
#player2 LS Lindsay Shin
>JJB: ABINPTY 8H BANTY +28 28
#note ~2:00 [~23:00] JJB thinks he has made a good find but blanks out on the equally accessible painty (Quackle prefers the 28-point placement, 3.0 diff in value, over the 30-point, 2.5 diff), and does not think of the good leave with by 8g 14.
>LS: EFU 7I FEU +23 23
#note ~1:00 [~24:00]
>JJB: GHIJPQW 6J WHIG +39 67
#note ~2:00 [~21:00] Obvious best play, slightly beating whip on leave synergy.
>LS: AEU H8 .EAU +6 29
#note ~1:00 [~23:00] Eau/aue# 9l 9 gets more points; ea#/fae#/wena# 17 is also worth considering. American extensions are beaucoup, beautest, beauties, beautify; Collins includes beaufets#, beauffet#, beaufins#, beautied#, beauxite#.
>JJB: JPPQSST 11G J.STS +24 91
#note ~1:00 [~20:00] In a total blindness brought on by consonant glut, JJB throws the tiles down around the easy vowel. If he had selected the vowel two rows up, he would get 18 more beautiful overlap points (jests 9g 42). Other row-9 plays, jasp(s)#, and exchanges also rate highly.
>LS: AAIKR 12C RAKIA +27 56
#note ~2:00 [~21:00] LS knows her Collins fives.
>JJB: ?ALNPPQ 5K PLAN +35 126
#note ~1:31 [18:29] JJB finds the right spot and makes the second-highest-rated play, having just studied plap# (7.1 diff) and written it down but not totally sure if spelling it right; LS briefly holds on the word phut. Qapik 38 (using the blank) makes the top ten.
>LS: AEGNU O4 GENUA +31 87
#note ~0:30 [~20:30] There's also the matter of those hooks.
>JJB: ?GOOPQT D11 Q.T +12 138
#note 1:41 [16:48] With T? on the rack there is no need whatever to shed the Q so fast, and high parallel alternatives should be sought. Here goop 13d 36 rates exceedingly well, 24.3 diff; the QT? leave is even slightly better than the GOOP? leave.
>LS: VX 9G V.X +46 133
#note ~0:30 [~20:00]
>JJB: ??EGOOP 13G GOOPiEr +85 223
#note 2:09 [14:39] JJB settles for the only American bingo. The five Collins bingos all play there also: pogoers# 91, poogyes# 89, pongoes# 87, glooped# 85, opgefok# 79.
>LS: AEF 13B FE.A +24 157
#note ~2:05 [17:55] The parallel helps here: fae#/jaga#/oe 28.
>JJB: ACDIINV 4M VI. +16 239
#note 2:54 [11:45] JJB is not sure dika# 40, the best play, was on his study list, so dumps the V for a rack he can handle (17.3 diff). The same hotspot as the previous turn would yield vain 14f 31 and acceptable leave. He has a comfortable lead but it does not reflect his missed opportunities.
>LS: IT E11 I..T +38 195
#note 0:16 [17:41] Grabbing the Q hotspot immediately and easily. Tika# is much safer.
>JJB: ACDINOR 14A CAD +26 265
#note 2:14 [9:31] Now JJB misses a 5-overlap: aroid 14g 32, 7.2 diff. Ad 14b is quite higher rated, in second place, keeping the C; 3-2 distribution often beats 2-2, and other C keepers rate highly too.
>LS: ADOW 12L WOAD +31 226
#note 0:23 [17:18]
>JJB: EINORST 15C OESTRIN +88 353
#note 2:29 [7:02] Best American play; too bad JJB didn't study tersion# 94. Too much time taken also.
>LS: EMY O12 .EMY +30 256
#note 1:42 [15:36]
>JJB: EEEINRU 14E .EE +22 375
#note 1:34 [5:28] JJB finally spots the top play, using the J when it's a more obvious word.
>LS: LO N2 LO.. +8 264
#note 0:12 [15:24] Board is suffering from closure, but this does not look like the best solution either. Did LS really hold lovage?
>JJB: EELNRRU N14 UN +17 392
#note 2:43 [2:45] JJB takes a simple hotspot without seizing the hotter hook with unreel 1j 26 (10.1 diff) or many others. He could also have improved his situation more with neum 14l 20.
>LS: IMO 2K MOI. +6 270
#note ~0:29 [~14:55] Continuing the opening-building philosophy it may feel natural to sacrifice more points than to play oi 14i 13 or moi n8 11, for instance; it is probable that the lane and hook are already sufficient for bingoing without further assistance.
>JJB: EEILRRR 1H RILE +16 408
#note 0:41 [2:04] Not knowing relie# 19, JJB could still have formed the best play, the R-dump relier 3g 14 (3.1 diff).
>LS: DHOOS 3G HOODS +19 289
#note ~1:01 [13:54] LS has very few other places to play, but hood 3i 20 and soho# 9k 26 look stronger.
>JJB: BCDELRR 4E BLED +19 427
#note 1:34 [0:30] JJB has been catching up missing plays from tracking and has the correct opponent rack; he sees triazine and the only other bingo is unitizer. But he wants to make surprise Collins bingos as difficult as possible; since no As remain for hooks, cred, bred, and bled all rate equally. However, he has no business opening up such possibilities as LS's actual parallel play (which he could have read off her rack), since he has no current out in two at all, and his leave will be horrendous in any case. He needs at least a credible out in three, which bed/deb 1m forbids him, and after bled 19 he can become stuck with an R by LS blocking both JJB's her g3 (threatening scorn i11) and his brr e4 (threatening C plays). After bled 19, the best setup is zine 34 (threatening ritz 26), scorn 7 (threatening her 6 because other threats are easier to block), heir 7 (blocking), pass, vext/went 21+2, which will net -36 to JJB. But if she blocks fully? Bled 19, zein 42, cum 11, vext 21, pass, liri 6+4, net of -43 to him. With cred 19, JJB can go out in two in more ways, so play continues zincier 36, bra 11, vext 21+2, net of -29. Similarly, after bred 19, LS's best combo is tiz 34, cher# 9, rine# 16+2, net of only -24. But even better for leave without setting up opponent is brr n8 11: the power play is the only response, namely ze 40 (even though it sets up), cord 12, vext 21, lez 19+8, net of -11. A simple recognition of the blockable Rs makes this play an easy over-the-board find, but JJB neglected leave at a cost of 32 potential spread points.
>LS: EIINRTZ 5D ZEIN +42 331
#note ~0:54 [~13:00] LS actually has an easy decision. If she recognizes that JJB cannot go out if both her g3 and brr e4 are blocked, she will see that the highest-value play is also easily the best (netting 62 as before). Another block that ties zein is rei 5d 16, allowing JJB only one more score: che# 8 (blocking hen), bez# 14, pass, vext 21, pass, vagi 9, pass, wen 6+4, net of 62.
>JJB: CRR M11 C.. +4 431
#note 0:24 [0:06] JJB still has time to see, but doesn't, that orc/cum 11 nets 7 more points. He only has three plays available, how hard can it be?
>LS: IRT E1 TRI.. +7 338
#note ~0:54 [12:06] LS misses the opportunity to milk the block, by playing vext/went 21 and weir 8+4 (net 33), and gets only tribe 7+4 (net 11). Rit#/then 12 was the other out.
>LS: (RR) +4 342
#note While JJB establishes and keeps a comfortable leave, his endgame suffers from not managing racks earlier or spotting the blockability of R. LS used many tiles for strong non-bingo scores, while JJB limped with the J and Q (tiles that LS subsequently got higher turn scores from). Points improvable based on tiles played: LS 34, JJB 69. Points improvable based on values: JJB 141.1.
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