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#player1 Jim_Burlant Jim Burlant
#player2 Chris_Grubb Chris Grubb
>Jim_Burlant: AEEINTT -ET +0 0
#note Was a tossup between this or 8H ET, and I felt that Chris would probably put down a small overlapping play that would make it much more difficult to bingo, so I opted for the exchange. This wasn't one of the original choices, but it winds up simming second to 8H ET. And against a human I think this is the better play.
>Chris_Grubb: EEGIIIJ -EE +0 0
>Jim_Burlant: AAEEINT 8D TAENIAE +66 66
#note 8G, 8D, and 8F are best placements.
>Chris_Grubb: AENOSST H3 ASTON.ES +59 59
>Jim_Burlant: EGGILRT 5E GLI.TER +32 98
#note Best, I'm at 58%.
>Chris_Grubb: CINUV 3C VICUN. +24 83
>Jim_Burlant: GINOTTX 2F XI +52 150
#note 52 points were too much to turn down. Quackle agrees.
>Chris_Grubb: AFNW 1G FAWN +36 119
>Jim_Burlant: DGNOSTT E7 T.NGO +12 162
#note Sim winner is 9F TOED. This play actually sims respectably, within 3 points of TOED. If I have to leave myself vowelless, I really don't want to keep 4 consonants.
>Chris_Grubb: BEG 4J BEG +18 137
>Jim_Burlant: ADLLRST J7 D.LL +7 169
#note Saw 6J DAL and didn't like the vowelless leave. Didn't see TIDAL, didn't know LIDAR and felt Quackle would want me to preserve the RATS leave.
>Chris_Grubb: DEEEIRS 12E SEEDIER +67 204
>Jim_Burlant: AHNRSTY K11 T.AY +14 183
#note Now I start losing the plot. I saw plays like TRASHY, HASTY...and felt that burning the case S for anything under high 40's would be a panic move, turnover or not. I felt I should take a turn out to force him to defend against my S. Yes, DRAY scores 24 but it's very easy for him to defend. 3K HAY wins the sim, but I was too focused on board opening rather than playing. Between this move and my next move - which was a huge mistake - this game went off into the weeds.
>Chris_Grubb: ADLR 14J L.ARD +22 226
>Jim_Burlant: BHNORSU O12 BUSH +46 229
>Jim_Burlant: BHNORSU -- -46 183
#note Had to try. Very nice job blocking by Chris.
>Chris_Grubb: EOU M12 EU.O +8 234
>Jim_Burlant: BHNORSU 10B BOU.H +25 208
#note Didn't know SHOON, whioch is easily best. This choice would have been one of the better plays on my previous turn. I also wanted to open lines and unload the U and didn't look hard enough at the board to see BOON. Very poor play.
>Chris_Grubb: ?AEHIIR N6 HAIrIER +71 305
>Jim_Burlant: MNRSTVZ 8M Z.T +36 244
#note I'm at 2-1/2 % here. Best is ostensibly G11 VENT, but come on - can I really let O8 sit untouched?
>Chris_Grubb: DEIIKOO O1 DOOKIE +53 358
>Jim_Burlant: ?AMNRSV D2 V.M +16 260
#note What goes around comes around. Just desserts for some of what I did to the lower seeds. At this point my annotation stops. Suffice it to say that after this rack, I fished off AR from a follow-up rack of AANRRS? and wound up with a final rack of AEJNRS?, which only yields a playable bingo in Collins. Final score recorded as 342 - 440.
#rack2 ACIOPUY
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