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#player1 Nigel Nigel
#player2 Noah Noah
>Nigel: EFLNRRR -FLRR +0 0
#note Portland Area Matchplay, Winners Bracket Round 4, Nigel Peltier vs. Noah Walton, Game 1. This tournament is a double elimination best-of-7 style tournament I (Noah Walton) am currently running in the Portland area. Thanks to Nigel for supplying the racks for these games.
>Noah: DEIOSUX H3 EXODUS +44 44
>Nigel: EEEGNRZ 6F ZE. +33 33
>Noah: AIIORRT 8H .ARTORII +77 121
>Nigel: EEFGINR F2 FREE.ING +79 112
>Noah: AAEHNNY 9I YEAH +32 153
#note Unsure between this and YEAN. ANY and NAY are plays I missed. All of them are pretty good plays. NAY a few points better than anything else. This and YEAN have the advantage of blocking with a small lead. I don't think that's a huge priority, but seems at least somewhat important. This sims pretty much evenly with YEAN, but I think the gap between AHN and ANN might be a little wider on subsequent turns, which rack leftover value doesn't take into account, so I would guess YEAN to be a tad better. YEAN and NAY seems to be the options, then, and I don't really know between the two.
>Nigel: AGHINQU E7 QUAIGH +54 166
>Noah: ACIMNNT N2 MANNIT.C +78 231
>Nigel: EEJNTVY - +0 166
#note Actual rack. Challenged.
>Noah: ?ALNRTU 12A TURN.AlL +74 305
>Nigel: EEJNTVY 10H NEVE +38 204
#note VEEJ(A)Y seems like an improvement.
>Noah: ABEEFLO O1 LOBE +32 337
#note I thought this maximized my ability to score well out of all the plays on columns M and O, which Quackle seems to agree with. I don't think I considered blocking the A column seriously enough here though, something that FOLATE accomplishes well. Keep in mind that spread is not a factor in this game. After FOLATE, there are definitely winning lines for him, usually involving multiple bingos, though even two bingos for him is often not going to win. On the other hand, a 3x3 can actually put Nigel ahead. With fine places to score later with BE, I think FOLATE may be right.
>Nigel: JKLOTVY M3 JO +45 249
>Noah: AEEFGIW I3 FIE +30 367
#note Now the column A blocks aren't as good as FOLATE, with TWIG, and TWAE as my main choices. FEIGN is another play I missed. It seems like TWIG might be the best play here though.
>Nigel: IKLOTVY C9 IVO.Y +24 273
>Noah: ACEGLOW A8 CLEA. +21 388
#note Ironically, the turn where I block the T is the turn where it is probably the biggest mistake equity-wise, but I couldn't figure out how I would lose after this.
>Nigel: AKLMRTT 11K LARK +24 297
#note I think he said I blocked TITLARK.
>Noah: BDGOSSW 5K GOW.S +38 426
>Nigel: IMNSTTT L4 T.M +18 315
>Noah: ABDEESU 12L BEAD +34 460
#note Oops, BEAU, but doesn't matter.
>Nigel: INOPSTT 13I PINOTS +40 355
>Noah: ?EIPRSU 14F PURInES +77 537
>Noah: (ADDOTW) +22 559
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