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#player1 Morris_Greenberg Morris Greenberg
#player2 Chris_Kulig Chris Kulig
>Morris_Greenberg: AGSTTXY 8H STAGY +26 26
#note Final game of the matchup! Even though I've played a bit sloppily, it's tied 2-2 meaning this one is all or nothing to move on. I go first since I have more spread. Unfortunately, I decide to make my biggest mistake during this game at a crucial moment. This opening rack is interesting, any of XYST, TAX, and STAGY seem reasonable. Seems like a rack for the TWL strategy page on facebook.
>Chris_Kulig: FLNORSU K2 FURLON.S +74 74
>Morris_Greenberg: DEHITXY J1 HEX +31 57
#note Didn't like the triple (F)IXT opened up, and missed DITHE(R)Y. This sims second behind DITHE(R)Y, (F)IXT is third.
>Chris_Kulig: ADIQ H4 QAID. +25 99
>Morris_Greenberg: BDEIOTY 1G BOT. +27 84
#note How did I miss YOD)H? What, this sims better? Okay, then.
>Chris_Kulig: AW J5 AW +28 127
>Morris_Greenberg: DEEFIIY 2F FEY +26 110
#note Didn't like what (R)EIFY and (R)EEFY opened up. This sims second after (R)EIFY.
>Chris_Kulig: OU L8 .OU +8 135
>Morris_Greenberg: ADEEIJU 3C JADE +29 139
#note E(XU)DE is an awesome play I completely missed. Thisis second best.
>Chris_Kulig: IILO D3 .IOLI +10 145
>Morris_Greenberg: EEIORRU 11J OURIE +17 156
>Chris_Kulig: AAMORSV 8A VARS +31 176
#note He asked after the game if SAMOVAR was a proper noun or not. I'm lucky he talked himself out of it.
>Morris_Greenberg: CELORTU 12D CLOTURE +72 228
>Chris_Kulig: ??AEEMO B8 .MOEbEAn +70 246
#note Only bingo that plays there for him, best.
>Morris_Greenberg: AEINNOP A13 APO +24 252
#note This is a mistake, I was overly focused on a short word here, and completely missed A11 PANNE.
>Chris_Kulig: BDEI N10 B.EDI +28 274
>Morris_Greenberg: EEINNNR O12 NENE +23 275
#note I was choosing between 3 plays NINE O7, NENE O12, and (YOUR)N L8. Although (YOUR)N is cool, there are only 1 S and 1 D, so INNER(V)E_ in the A column is very unlikely, and the other bingo lane on column O is very likely to be blocked. I decided to play NENE over NINE simply because of the extra 7 points. I could be burned in either spot, and although it's easier to make a play in the NINE spot, the NENE spot will score more on average if he can play there. These three plays are the top 3 plays in the sim, and are within 0.3% of each other winwise. One other play that is just behind them is (PA)NNE 14A to set up another bingo lane. All 4 seem reasonable, thoughts on which is best?
>Chris_Kulig: AGINR O6 GARNI +22 296
>Morris_Greenberg: AHINPRS 10H NAH +28 303
#note He is getting pretty low on time, and I wanted to pressure him. So, I spent little time on this play, this and PAH in the same spot both seemed reasonable, I thought the P could be more valuable at this point though. This is actually third best according to the sim, with HIN E5 being the best, then PAH, then this.
>Chris_Kulig: ITW E5 WIT +26 322
>Morris_Greenberg: EIIPRST H12 .RP +5 308
#note Key thing to note here: 1 vowel in the pool, a ton of junk otherwise. Therefore, setting up my S and keeping all of my vowels is a REALLY good idea. This wins 89% of the time, and with C7 T(R)IP crushes in the sim. What trip does that is nice is blocks one of his 2 spots for M(O)CK, and it scores 21 to make it a closer game. Still, both are really strong plays.
>Chris_Kulig: DEKMNVZ 14F ZE. +34 356
#note Z(O)NK is a bit better, he's at 83% win here, vs. 85% with Z(O)NK.
>Morris_Greenberg: EIILSTT F5 ET +15 323
#note Note to self, realize how many points STILT or STILE actually is! I completely shank this endgame, I try to be cute and stick his V here, but that's completely unnecessary. I should go out in 2 so that he is stuck with a ton of stuff because he can't play most of it in this coming turn. I played sort of sloppily in this matchup, and deserved to lose as I did. It is frustrating though that I could've won it had I actually thought about the endgame more. This was good practice for getting back into scrabble, hopefully I won't botch a tournament endgame in this way in the near future.
>Chris_Kulig: CDGKMNV 10A M.CK +12 368
>Morris_Greenberg: IILST G1 ..S +20 343
>Chris_Kulig: DGNV L8 ....N +16 384
#note I completely missed this after seeing it earlier in the game. I felt so stupid afterwards.
>Morris_Greenberg: IILT 14A ..L +5 348
>Chris_Kulig: DGV 6J ..G +7 391
>Morris_Greenberg: IIT 2J ..T +6 354
>Chris_Kulig: DV 14M D.. +4 395
>Morris_Greenberg: II 7G I. +4 358
>Chris_Kulig: V - +0 395
>Morris_Greenberg: I 4H .I +11 369
>Morris_Greenberg: (V) +8 377
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