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#player1 Carl Carl
#player2 Joey_M Joey M
>Carl: ADDEEGO 8D GEODE +18 18
#note Missing GOADED, which turns out to cost me pretty big here. (-3)
>Joey_M: AEEKLNX E5 KLE.NEX +72 72
>Carl: AADIOSW D10 WOAD +30 48
>Joey_M: ABCIITW C9 WAB +30 102
>Carl: AAEIIOS 13B OI.IA +12 60
#note See what I mean? As I'm going through these games, awful racks like this seemed more likely than usual. And in terms of blanks, I was dead even, drawing exactly half. And yet, my eventual 5th place is higher than I deserved, higher than several superior players. Somewhere along the line, I must have gotten lucky, but it's hard to say where.
>Joey_M: CEFIIMT 6C FI.MIC +19 121
>Carl: AEINOSV 7H EVASION +70 130
>Joey_M: AAEJTUV L4 JUV.E +32 153
>Carl: EEFHNQT J6 Q.T +32 162
>Joey_M: AADGITT N2 ATTAI. +16 169
>Carl: EEFHNRR O1 FREER +36 198
>Joey_M: ACDGLSU 7B CAG. +19 188
#note Not sure why I ignored any plays making EVASIONS. SCUD seems fine.
>Carl: AEHINTY K7 .HANTEY +32 230
#note Quackle doesn't initially consider this play, but you can see the benefits; it inhibits bingos on Rows 12 and 14 and turns over tiles for the blanks. It's not a bad choice, but it ultimately doesn't sim as well as THY 14E or YEAH F11. YEAH F11 looks particularly questionable to me, but what do I know? (-5.5?)
>Joey_M: DILMPSU F8 .UD +22 210
#note JM: Hoping for the right vowel for B7.
CJ: SHANTEY is a lot like that XYSTOI move against Alec back in the 2019 Finals, or when I played NOCEBO against Joey M at SWILLLNS. It goes for eventual, if not immediate board control. Such plays feel right to me, and when Quackle opposes them, I can't tell whether I need to be playing more straightforwardly, or Q isn't taking into account the longterm implications of a lane being available for many turns. Essentially, I'm either improving on the sim or reinforcing a serious leak in my game.
>Carl: DEILNTY 12I NE.DILY +30 260
#note Quackle doesn't think of this either, but this time, it sims ahead of the more straightforward plays like L12 DENY or 14E DYNEL.
>Joey_M: ILMOOPS B7 .OOP +36 246
>Carl: ?ENORTU 14E TENOURs +79 339
>Joey_M: ?ILMPSS O7 SIMPL. +50 296
#note Bummed that I was denied the rare SLIMPSY. All I can hope for now is some nine ending in AR.
>Carl: EIRRRTZ M11 R.TZ +26 365
#note I must have missed something; apparently other plays like B12 TORR and G3 ZITI win more often. (-6.5)
>Joey_M: ?BGLOSU 15A GLOBS +36 332
#note So close to GLOBULARS!
>Carl: AEINRRS 15G ERS +19 384
#note We both missed cHUFA C3. (-13)
>Joey_M: ?HU A8 Hm +32 364
#note Better to play AH n14 and just let him play out.
>Carl: AINR N12 .IAR +32 416
>Joey_M: U 4L .U.. +11 375
>Joey_M: (N) +2 377
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