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#player1 Tasha Tasha
#player2 Rafi_Stern Rafi Stern
>Tasha: AAEEEVV 8G VAV +18 18
#note Tasha Underdogs It Up in Cali - Episode 4. This is probably my favorite game of the tournament. If I were playing a lower-rated player, I would have played EAVE. Since I'm not playing a lower-rated player, I briefly thought of exchanging. But then I decided that VAV is more annoying than exchanging.
>Rafi_Stern: AJTZ H7 T.J +10 10
#note I'm pretty sure Rafi mentioned having the Z on his opening rack.
>Tasha: AEEEEIO -AEEEIO +0 18
#note I realized too late I should have kept the O.
>Rafi_Stern: EIRSZ J8 SIZER +44 54
#note Rafi took a very long time here. He said he thought of exchanging the Z, but decided to play SIZER. I was hoping he wouldn't exchange. Had he exchanged, though, I would have played G6 LUV.
>Tasha: EILLTUX 12H LU.EX +26 44
>Rafi_Stern: ENN 11I N.NE +23 77
>Tasha: DEEILTW H12 .EWD +24 68
#note I didn't see LWEI. Playing that instead certainly would have prevented what happened next.
>Rafi_Stern: ?EHOORY 15A HOORaYE. +95 172
>Tasha: EILOPTT D8 PLOTTIE. +76 144
>Rafi_Stern: CEOU 8A COU.E +27 199
>Tasha: AEKMNRU C11 AUK +30 174
>Rafi_Stern: AY 14A AY +25 224
>Tasha: ?EGMNNR B7 N.RM +12 186
>Rafi_Stern: APT E11 TAP +28 252
>Tasha: ?AEGLNO E1 ELONGAt. +66 252
#note GASOLENE is better. I either didn't see it or forgot about the E spelling. However, playing ELONGATE worked out for me. I took a while here because I didn't want to play ELONGATE and I was looking for something through the C. An OIC word or something. I thought of passing up the bingo to fish off an O but decided not to.
>Rafi_Stern: BHNOSW 1D B.SNOW +42 294
#note Rafi had the H. Had I played GASOLENE, he would have played 14G BOW, setting up his H to play HENS for a total of about 70 points. 42 points is better than 70. I still got burned a bit, though.
>Tasha: EEILRTT 2H RETITLE +75 327
>Rafi_Stern: ADEI O1 IDEA +27 321
>Tasha: BDFIIMS 3I BID +25 352
#note At first I thought of 5J BIFIDS*, but felt that was probably phony and I really can't afford to play a phony. I mean people are watching. So then I thought of K1 BIFID but didn't really like the play. I felt that I should make a shorter play that scores well rather than a longer one that scores well. BID sims better than BIFID by 4 points.
>Rafi_Stern: ACGO 4C CO.GA +16 337
>Tasha: AFIMNQS M1 F.AM +18 370
#note I think I took a while on this play. I mistracked a bit and thought there were no E's left (but I knew there was an S), and I knew that with the remaining pool you must have some mad skills to bingo on row 5 if I were to make the right block. I played FLAM to take out the last remaining bingo lanes - column M, column N, and row 5. I doubted that he'll hit something through the W. I was also kind of hoping that I would be able to play 5K QIS next turn.
>Rafi_Stern: GRU 10L RUG +18 355
>Tasha: IINOQSS O8 QIS +41 411
>Rafi_Stern: ADEFHIR L4 HIRED +36 391
>Tasha: IINOS 13H .NS +23 434
>Rafi_Stern: AF 3E .AF +22 413
#note Although a few turns ago I thought there were no E's left, I had RAFI tracked at DEEFHIR. I was expecting 5K F(I)E for 22 points and figured that was his highest-scoring play and I'll win by 13. It turns out he had an A, but it made no difference.
>Rafi_Stern: (IIO) +6 419
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