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#player1 Jim_Burlant Jim Burlant
#player2 Chris_Schneider Chris Schneider
>Jim_Burlant: EKMOQRV 8D MOVER +26 26
#note I seriously considered exchanging 5 here, keeping RE...but couldn't justify doing it when I could clear 5 tiles out of the rack. Normally I'd put down VOMER with this set of letters, but with the Q in hand, it sents up a Q play if I draw an I. Quackle agrees with me: this is best. That said, exchanging 4 keeping EMR or exchanging 5 keeping ER are also viable plays according to the duck.
>Chris_Schneider: GT G7 G.T +7 7
>Jim_Burlant: AAKPQTT 10F QAT +37 63
>Chris_Schneider: AGZ 7C ZAG +30 37
>Jim_Burlant: AAKPRTT 9C KAT +21 84
#note Best. Of note: D3 PATT(AM)AR 24.
>Chris_Schneider: ?AEFNTT I2 FATTENs +71 108
#note Only bingo for Chris.
>Jim_Burlant: AILPRRT 3H P.RTIAL +18 102
#note FAIL! For the second straight game the letter I need for an 8 has been floated...and it's been placed somewhere that I can't play through it. I whiffed on ALL the short plays at H1. Also - I thought Chris might not have known that this took a back S, so I thought it was worth the risk to get cute here and play this. Chris was the only opponent in this field who I would have tried this play against. In retrospect I should have just looked to go short with H1 RIP.
>Chris_Schneider: EIW H1 WI.E +38 146
>Jim_Burlant: EIMNNRU 11C MUNI +23 125
#note Now I was starting to get a little frustrated - drawing to unique tiles on every turn, the racks were repeatedly being killed by the duplicating bingo tiles: the AATT sequence on turns 2 and 3, the dupe R's that killed the rack on the last turn, now the duplicated N's. I screwed the pooch on my last turn, but there's no getting this wrong - this is best. 30% to win.
>Chris_Schneider: ILLOPSY O1 LISP +37 183
#note This was Chris's rack - he said he'd have had SLOPPILY through a P. POSY would have scored 49. Regardless, my gamble backfired and he's still in good shape at 71% to win.
>Jim_Burlant: ?DEENNR L3 .NtERNED +68 193
#note Best would have been INTENDER for 70. Regardless, back in the game at 45% to win.
>Chris_Schneider: BNOY K9 BONY +25 208
>Jim_Burlant: ACGIOXY J5 OX +52 245
#note I wondered if I should play AX or OX given what was left in my rack but felt that I still had YA at 10J if he couldn't take the spot. Q says I should play AX, but in reality the plays are pretty close: AX tops the sim at 63.4%, and OX sims 1 point down and wins 62.6.
>Chris_Schneider: HOO J9 OHO +36 244
>Jim_Burlant: ACCGIJY I11 CAGY +17 262
#note Missed my best play here - JIC(AMA) D4 scores 34. This is reasonably safe - the only possible play that can burn me is HAAF - but once again, all the clunk in the rack threw me and I missed the best play. JICAMA was the play.
>Chris_Schneider: HOO 12C OHO +28 272
>Jim_Burlant: CIIIJNS 13A JIN +30 292
#note If you don't see JICAMA (yup, missed it again), your options are limited. JICAMA wins 58%; this wins 46 and is second best.
>Chris_Schneider: EU A13 .EU +30 302
>Jim_Burlant: BCEIISU H14 BI +19 311
#note I figured I'd tighten things up and leave him nowhere to score while leaving myself COHO/CIS for my next turn. Q says that if you don't play SLUICE this is your next best option.
>Chris_Schneider: AADFLRS G13 FA +17 319
#note This was his rack. Q prefers that he play longer with L12 ALFA for 26. Regardless, this certainly worked out for him.
>Jim_Burlant: CDEISUU N2 S.UICED +40 351
#note All those A's, E's, and I's in the pool and I draw the case U? Are you kidding me? With a 20 or 30-point lead (very probably the case if I find JICAMA) I probably play defensively with something like K3 TUI, but the current situation forced my hand, or so I felt. It was obviously risky for me to open the O column, but my reasoning was that if he didn't have the bingo this very turn, worst case he'd be coming back for 25 and I'd be in the driver's seat with a slight lead on a mostly dead board. The sim mostly agrees with me, though it feels that I should hold the D for better balance. But, given his next rack, this was the worst play I could make. The option that looks much better now - of course, the one I couldn't think of - was M10 SCUDI.
>Chris_Schneider: ADEILRS O7 DERAILS +89 408
>Jim_Burlant: EILORUW 7L .U.. +6 357
>Chris_Schneider: ADEEERS M10 SEARED +22 430
>Jim_Burlant: EILORVW 15K VI.EO +30 387
>Chris_Schneider: E 12K .E. +12 442
>Chris_Schneider: (LRW) +12 454
#note JICAMA was tough to see, but I still should have found it. But the game-altering mistake was PARTIAL. If he has two normal 25-point turns instead of the 77-point scoring bonanza I gave him with that blunder, instead of trailing by 10 on the SLUICED turn, I'm up 25 - 30, I play conservatively and force him to try and catch up on a mostly dead board. Missing JICAMA wasn't great either, but PaRTIAL was the mistake that gave this game away.
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