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#player1 Samuel_Kaplan Samuel Kaplan
#player2 Evan_Chester Evan Chester
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEHIIJO 8E JIAO +22 22
>Evan_Chester: ADGIINR 9H RAIDING +63 63
#note S - Good start for him here. He was bingoing no matter which placement of JIAO that I go with because he has RADI(O)ING available as well.
E - best
>Samuel_Kaplan: BEEHINO K4 BEHIN. +24 46
#note I really wanted to eliminate huge plays from 8L to 8O, especially things like QUAG which would have already put me BEHIND (pun intended) by so many points. A better way to do that would just be 8K OBE if we're talking about Evan's average score next turn. I think if I had to do this over again, maybe HONIE(D) is the play for a more balanced leave if I don't want monster plays closing the entire right side of the board and I open the top right.
>Evan_Chester: AAEIOOP E8 .IAO +22 85
#note S - I have all of Evan's racks for this game, thanks to him for providing them. I see that he's been annotating his games and he will get himself up there very quickly. I like 8K NAIAD here if he thinks that RAIDINGS* is good.
E - I don't have a D so I can't actually play NAIAD lol. E5 POOJA is valued 3 higher than JIAO but I missed it. JIAO is 2nd and much better than anything else
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEEOOOR L3 AERO +23 69
#note Very close in the sim with 4J O(B)OE and exchanging down to AER. After he just played off 3 vowels himself, I liked the idea of leaving 3 vowels and drawing into a more consonant-heavy bag.
>Evan_Chester: AEIOOPY M3 AYE +27 112
#note S - YEA in the same spot scores 3 more for him. This was misscored as 28.
E - I actually misscored both YEA and AYE and thought they were both 28. I picked AYE because it makes re-parallels a lot harder than YEA. F10 YIPE could be argued but I thought that was phony for some reason. The sim likes J5 POO which saves M3 AYE for next turn, and keeps the Y to play at F10. All of these options are decent and AYE is a small mistake at worst
>Samuel_Kaplan: EOOPSUV J6 PO +26 95
#note Bad draw and this is a deceptively tricky position. I didn't see any reasonable play besides J3 OOPS or POOS that used the JIAOS hook on Row 12. N7 VO(G)UE does dispose of the dreaded UV combination at the expense of too many points (15 in this case). This is really the best I can do, just need to draw better.
>Evan_Chester: ILOOPTZ D11 PLOTZ +56 168
#note S - Looks like the clear best play here.
E - Best
>Samuel_Kaplan: CEOSUVW F10 WOVE +36 131
#note CW was not the ideal draw, but this is once again the best I can do.
>Evan_Chester: ?AIOSSW 14B WO. +12 180
#note Figured that WOT had a lot of merit holding SS? Quackle wants me to burn the block and play yOWZA or ZOWIe but I think that's a bit too crazy for my liking.
>Samuel_Kaplan: CCESSUY 13C Y. +20 151
#note WOT screams S setup to me. I can't help but feel a bit stumped. I did hesitate to do A12 CUSS just because I thought RAIDINGS* was good (and so did he). I wanted a potential comeback response if Evan were to hit a bingo next turn. With that said, I did not see I8 S(A)UCY which would have been nice middle ground between cleaning up the rack and scoring decently. #findingmedium
>Evan_Chester: ?AIMOSS M7 MA.SIOnS +74 254
#note S - A9 bIOMASS would have really put me in a world of hurt. I'm lucky he didn't see that.
E - I couldn't spot any of my 7s here, being bIOMASS, mIMOSAS, ShAMOIS, and MOSAIcS. As long as I bingo here I'm fine
>Samuel_Kaplan: CCESSUU O6 CUES +28 179
#note S - I did not know 14H CUSCU(S)ES. Like how often do you see a word with 2 Cs, 2 Us, and 3 Ss? That's almost as low probability as it gets. Also, I was the one to take advantage of the RAIDINGS* hook which Evan likely would not be able to challenge if he's up by quite a bit now.
E - Unless I was 100% sure on RAIDINGS*, I wouldn't have challenged here. That spot being used for only 28 makes it easy to transition to defense without being hurt badly in the spot.
>Evan_Chester: AADEGIT 15D .AIDA +45 299
#note S - However, a hidden drawback of me drawing as poorly as I had been is not hitting the Z at the bottom. Safe to say this is a major contributing factor to how this game went. Evan has totalled 101 points with the Z alone and is playing well.
E - Best
>Samuel_Kaplan: BCLRSTU 14J BUR.T +26 205
#note Omg...I missed a really cool idea here. I did not see that I could have made BRAIDINGS, which is valid, with G7 CAB. That sets up an S hook that will be extremely difficult for Evan to block and it keeps additional lanes in MANSIONS open. #visionlarge
>Evan_Chester: DEEGRTV 15A DE +14 313
#note Definite equity sacrafice but I have him pegged on the 4th S so taking out SWOT is important. The pool is also super consonant heavy (23-10) so I figured the closed board would benefit me a lot up 100 after DE
>Samuel_Kaplan: CFLNRST 12L C.RF +26 231
#note Well if I'm going to keep drawing consonants, maybe I might as well be forced to address this problem and maybe C(A)B would have been sort of moot because I realistically need to bingo twice to catch up to him.
>Evan_Chester: EGINRTV H12 VEG. +12 325
#note CORF blocked 11H RIVETING, which would have been unrealistically lucky to get down. Equity doesn't really matter on this board and this scores as much as I can without making INWOVE, which I did not notice until later, and also dumps GV which is really hard to deal with on this shut of a borad
>Samuel_Kaplan: AELLNST G10 AL +14 245
#note S - I had 2 more As not crossed out on my tracking and that threw me off. If I had correctly decided that I had the last A, I would have done EL here instead. I am glad to come across this idea and just have to hope that Evan can't block my SPOOL hook.
E - Very clever play
>Evan_Chester: FIMNRTX 9D F.N +18 343
#note S - He first told me that he could have just dropped the X with 9D XI. But this is easily better if he suspects I have an S after POOL. Nice foresight by him here. He has a way to respond to potential bingoes I could play.
E - I noticed SPOOL right away and knew I had to block. Once I noticed INWOVE was possible, this play stood out. It's the best equity play in addition to playing great defense
>Samuel_Kaplan: EHLNSTU G7 H. +9 254
#note Now he'll have a hard time blocking this one.
>Evan_Chester: DEIMRTX 7G .M +12 355
#note With 3 Ts unseen and Sam being very close to a bingo, an -EST bingo is very likely. HM blocks those -EST bingos and keeps a balanced leave that will almost certainly give my a solid response with my X on the triple lane if he does bingo. I really like this play
>Samuel_Kaplan: EELNSTU 6A ELUENTS +67 321
#note E - Ironically if Sam had played EL instead of AL, he would have still ended up playing the same word! Just the other spelling
>Evan_Chester: DEIRTTX A5 T.XTED +42 397
#note Took a while to figure out if I should play off 5 or 3 here. I settled on 5 to give Sam limited opportunity to fish and pull another bingo, and I think that is correct. TEXTED was the only 6 on the A column that I saw but there are others. EXITED is clearly worse because of the unseen Q. I'm nearly a lock to draw it if Sam didn't and the I helps with that enormously. However, DEXTER is better, since IT pairs better with the Q than IR, and the T could allow me to better set up new QI spots if he blocks the U in ELUENTS.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?EIKRTU D5 T. +2 323
#note If Evan didn't block the E, I would have bingoed with K(E)IRETsU to pull off an improbable comeback! The idea behind this play was to Q-stick him because there's nowhere for QI or any Q drop on this board. I was hoping to force Evan to block my potential out bingoes for a cheap amount of points and maybe I could pull off the win by playing 1 tile at a time after that. The only problem was I was low on time, and it can be tricky to permute a Q-stick endgame when I am under time pressure.
>Evan_Chester: EILNNQR F4 NE. +3 400
#note I have to block GUnKIER here. NET also gives me a spot for QI which will force his next plays to be in that spot, and not score as much as they would elsewhere. The best play champ finds is D5 TEN but I'm not going through that whole sequence rn lol
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?EGIKRU 5D .I. +10 333
>Evan_Chester: ILNQR 13C ..R. +7 407
#note Figured this was good to block his highest scoring K spot. Apparently 9A ER and D5 TEL are 3 points better but again, don't feel like checking these lines extensively
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?EGKRU D4 U.. +6 339
>Evan_Chester: ILNQ 4C N. +2 409
#note Again setting up QI
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?EGKR 15D .....s +15 354
#note I was already a minute overtime, so I tanked and allowed him to dump his Q.
>Evan_Chester: ILQ 3B QI +26 435
#note I wasn't winning this game after all. But I think doing C3 EN would have been better.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EGKR 2C KEG +15 369
>Evan_Chester: L 13H .L +3 438
#note S - Can't always overcome scoring onslaughts early on. I think CAB needed to be spotted instead of BURST and I think I needed to avoid picking Cs and Us at the same time after WOVE. Well played game Evan, you deserve this one! Final score was recorded as 441-359 because I went about 40 seconds overtime. 2-1 +88. Still no blank bingoes on the day for me which is rather strange.
E - Well played to you too Sam, I need a game with no sizable mistakes and fortunate early draw in order to beat a player of your caliber. Thankfully I got that here
>Evan_Chester: (R) +2 440
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