Game Details
Player 1
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#player1 Jonathan_Lindh Jonathan Lindh
#player2 Seth_Lipkin Seth Lipkin
>Jonathan_Lindh: EHIIIPY 8G YIPE +18 18
#note I have never beaten Seth before. Would this be the time? YIPE looks best.
>Seth_Lipkin: ADILNOS K2 LADINOS +76 76
#note 9F LADINOS for 76 is safer than K2. None of us saw it.
>Jonathan_Lindh: AHIIINV L1 VINA +32 50
#note 2nd best to 4H AVIDIN for 22. 1-2% off in win chances and 4 equity points off. I agree. I like the board position and leave after AVIDIN quite a bit more than after VINA. Small mistake.
>Seth_Lipkin: INY 1L .INY +30 106
>Jonathan_Lindh: DFGHIIO 9H DIF +21 71
#note Quackle prefers FID in the same spot a little more over DIF for some reason.
>Seth_Lipkin: EORT J3 ROTE +19 125
>Jonathan_Lindh: AGHIOSU 3H OU...G +16 87
#note The moment of truth play. I loved how OURANG opened the board at a deficit and forked the board with a decent leave. However, I managed to space on the ODAH hook. If I saw it, I would have played GHI for 32. It's too many points. I got mauled for this mistake. OURANG is still a top 10 play but about 11 points behind GHI.
>Seth_Lipkin: BCDEKOR 4B BEDROCK +103 228
#note When this came down, I knew I did something horribly wrong and I did.
>Jonathan_Lindh: AAHIIST 3B AHA +29 116
#note I also did not draw well and somehow missed AHI in the same spot as AHA. AHI is best.
>Seth_Lipkin: AAABGTU E4 .UTABAGA +94 322
#note Fantastic play. I briefly held because you should always hold when an opponent plays a 94 point with 3 A's in it, but I concluded RUTABAGA did not leave the dictionary and accepted.
>Jonathan_Lindh: ?IISSTV 12A VIbISTS +88 204
#note Only bingo.
>Seth_Lipkin: AEIRW A10 WA.IER +36 358
>Jonathan_Lindh: DELORTW 2A OWT +34 238
#note B1 TEABOWL for 40 to score more and maximize my chances of drawing the goodies. OWT is about 2nd or 3rd best.
>Seth_Lipkin: CLO H1 CO.. +30 388
#note Seth almost played bLOC for 10 because he was afraid of the R in WAVIER giving up RE_ 8 letter bingos, but then he wisely picked it up and played COOK instead. What would I have had had Seth played bLOC?
>Jonathan_Lindh: DEEEHLR C9 HER.ED +26 264
#note CHEERLED for 104 would have been my play had Seth played bLOC! Quackle likes 13G HEELER for 23 going for broke, but I was in spread cutting mode at this point.
>Seth_Lipkin: QU 7C QU. +22 410
>Jonathan_Lindh: ?EEEFLM 10J FEME +34 298
#note Looks best.
>Seth_Lipkin: EGNR M9 G.NRE +16 426
>Jonathan_Lindh: ?EEEJLS 14J JEsSE +61 359
#note JEESLy for 63 is a slightly better version of my play, but this game is not winnable against a human player who will block anything I try and open up.
>Seth_Lipkin: ANOX 15H AXON +44 470
>Jonathan_Lindh: EILPRTU F3 R.TE +12 371
#note Once again, 2nd best play. I had the right idea, blocking Z plays at F2 and QUA_ plays and saving N6 PULI for 15 as an out, but F2 PROTEI for 35 is 16 points better, doing all of the things ROTE does except scoring more.
>Seth_Lipkin: LLMNOTZ 1H .OZ +14 484
#note Best.
>Jonathan_Lindh: ILPU N6 PULI +15 386
#note Best along with slow playing with F2 PROTEI for 27.
>Jonathan_Lindh: (LLMNT) +14 400
#note Final score recorded as 494-400 because we misadded Seth's score by 10.
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