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#player1 DT Dana Tornabene
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>DT: DGINOT 8D DOTING +20 20
#note 0:52 [24:08] (doting 8g 20 +.6) The Charlottesville Triple Crown main event starts with pairings of high versus low. DT is in the lower half of seeds and also gets to start. She has no need to keep -ing on her rack when it can be used for points and turnover.
>JJB: AAENOQY F6 QA. +32 32
#note 0:34 [24:26] JJB overdraws and has to return M from MNO. Cashing the Q is important, but if he were in a turnover mood he could get noyade 20 and still have hopes for qat.
>DT: FITY H8 .IFTY +15 35
#note ~3:23 [~20:45] Another good scoring turnover play.
>JJB: AEMNOPY E7 M.PEY +28 60
#note 1:18 [23:08] (yipe g7 37 +15.4) Those unused double-letters could now spell yipe/ay/pi/ef 37 if he looked for it; he also misses a great chance to play eponymy 34 or myopy 30. There is not great virtue in his leave either.
>DT: CDRU 10B CUR.D +18 53
#note ~2:04 [18:41] DT can make good use of the premiums next to vowels, for her part.
>JJB: AFKNOOV D5 FOO. +13 73
#note 4:21 [18:47] (roof d10 19 +6) Now roof/yo would dispose of the same drek for 6 more, though there is no good leave from this rack, only hopeful leaves.
>DT: AIJ C3 AJI +25 78
#note 1:30 [17:11]
>JJB: AHIKNSV B10 .HINK +28 101
#note 3:51 [14:56] (shank 2b 58 +20.2) Out of JJB's bizarre leave he has now seen knavish; and, right after that, opponent has just blocked knavish/if/so/homa 112! But that's part of the game. He now needs to recalibrate and see the h/aji hook for shank 58; everything else is way behind.
>DT: AX 10H .AX +29 107
#note 1:22 [15:49] (ax a11 39 +10) A second good premium, taking the lead again, but missing the higher a12 spot.
>JJB: AEIISSV E1 IVIES +28 129
#note 1:54 [13:02] A second S allows a scoring and opening attempt with very good leave.
>DT: TTW 1C TW.T +11 118
#note 2:02 [13:47] DT wants to make a blocking move, but this is not so much of one because it's readily extensible. For nonuples, outwit is a verb, nitwitted is an adjective, and nitwittery is a noun; and if stand or ding were added in the right place, another nonuple would be notwithstanding!
>JJB: AAELNRS 7I ARSENAL +63 192
#note 0:44 [12:18] JJB has drawn and found a sole bingo elsewhere anyway.
>DT: BOW O6 B.OW +27 145
#note 3:54 [9:53]
>JJB: ADEILNO M7 .ONIDEAL +70 262
#note 0:29 [11:49] JJB also knows this rack, which has no 7s but he remembers via a mnemonic on one of its 8s: nonideal: *ptomaine. (The asterisk means that ADEILNO plays through MNPT only.) So the correct play is easy to find.
>DT: MU 11J UM +17 162
#note 3:25 [6:28] (um a11 19 +2) Again missing a12, not like it's inaccessible or anything.
>JJB: CEENRRS L1 RESCRE.N +77 339
#note 0:33 [11:16] Now JJB completes a natural pelican by finding a tight third bingo. DT marvels but is enjoying the show and still has varying nonuple hopes.
>DT: AV 12K AV. +16 178
#note 2:22 [4:06] DT continues balancing. Since she has or is about to have a blank, there are several theoretical nonuples, and bamdingers* with chinks, that are available, but if they existed they went unrecorded.
>JJB: ?DNOOUU 1A OU.... +27 366
#note 1:19 [9:57] JJB picks up a blank too and here succeeds in listing all of the bingos on this rack: voudoun(s), outbound, outfound, nodulous. Extending to outwit is best and can still be further extended.
>DT: AEZ 1L .AZE +39 217
#note 0:22 [3:44]
>JJB: ?DLNOTU 14H UNTOL.eD +70 436
#note 1:57 [8:00] Now there is no bingo but JJB thinks he heard somewhere that untold has a homonym: probably an unabridged. With this lead it's worth a shot.
>DT: ?ELORRS 15A uSER +27 244
#note 2:15 [1:29] (challenge, sorrels 15b 86 +119.7) DT now has a bingo rack but sees only rerolls and rollers. Even if she challenged, nonideal takes no S. However, if she challenged off the phony and then played sorrels (worth only a little less than it is without challenging), she would have 308 to 366 and still a 2% chance to win on the unseen tiles. Instead she cashes the blank, but it's only worth 27, instead of rule-of-thumb 30 more than without as it should be. Zeros 28 is available for blank retention, or lores/orles/roles 15d 24 to use row 15. Sorel/chinks 21 is better than going to 15a with anything (e.g. os).
>JJB: AEEEGHP 15H HEAP +50 486
#note 0:32 [7:28] And JJB has the tiles to maximize his open overlap. 500 approaches.
>DT: EGILORT 3G GORIE.T +22 266
#note 0:40 [0:49] (relict 4h 9, bide o12 30, go k1 20+6 +3) JJB has now drawn beige, which takes R or S in three places. It's possible to block all three, but hard to balance this with DT going out herself for good points. Gorier j2 13, elegit 4e 9, and lictor/lector 4j 9 are all inferior to her play because JJB also threatens bide o12 30. The best block is relict 4h 9, allowing bide 30, go/graze/oe 20+6 and netting 3 points more than the fine play goriest 22. (If opponent blocks go/graze/oe with begs 3i 22, the backup is go/gag/or 14+4 for the same spread.)
>JJB: BEEGI 5G BEIGE. +18 504
#note 0:27 [7:01]
>JJB: (L) +2 506
#note DT plays a fine waiting game and cannot help JJB drawing three consecutive natural bingos; her only big mistake is not challenging a phony later or finding her own good bingo of sorrels, which would have together retained about 2% win chances. JJB also had an excellent game with eight consecutive optimal plays (if you include phonying), missing only two parallels and a haji hook. Known points available: JJB 6, DT 15. Overall points available: JJB 41.6, DT 135.3+. |
