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#player1 Aaron_B Aaron B
#player2 Geoff Geoff
>Aaron_B: AAKT 8G KATA +16 16
>Geoff: GNNOSSW J6 SW.NSONG +66 66
#note Thank you, Scrabble Jesus
>Aaron_B: ?ADENOP 9B tONEPAD +71 87
>Geoff: BHLNRTV E8 V.RB +18 84
#note Well, okay...this cleans up the worst of it. Briefly considered THR(O)B, but nah.
>Aaron_B: EIIRW 12H WI.IER +26 113
>Geoff: FHILNTU H12 .HIT +30 114
>Aaron_B: DEILORT L5 DOLERIT. +60 173
>Geoff: AEFLNNU 8L .NUF +21 135
#note Didn't like FUN 8A, too closed. My leave works well with the floaters currently on the board, at least.
>Aaron_B: IMZ 8A MIZ +54 227
#note Ouch
>Geoff: ACDELNP 13C PLANC. +32 167
>Geoff: ADEOORR (challenge) +5 172
#note I wish that were NOTEPAD instead of TONEPAD, but no such luck. Quackle likes D(ZO) and 7A END a bit more than I do. Those two plays and my play tied in the sim.
>Aaron_B: EQY N7 Q.EY +24 251
>Geoff: ADEOORR 15H .OREADOR +80 252
#note Ugh, this crappy weak rack...oh hey!
>Aaron_B: EIOO 10C OO.IE +34 285
#note Nice vowel cleanup by Aaron here - not often you play off EIOO and score 34.
>Geoff: AAEELMU K3 AUE +12 264
#note Considered AEMULE(S) for 15, went with this instead but didn't feel great about it. Quackle like AMU 14M 23, which I agree is better since the bag's a little consonant-heavy. My play simmed 5 points worse, for what that's worth. Too much rack focus, I think.
>Aaron_B: AGT 14L TAG +19 304
>Geoff: AEELMUY 14B MEALY +57 321
#note Okay, caught up now.
>Aaron_B: DGNR 3I GR.ND +18 322
>Geoff: BEIIJUX N2 JEUX +44 365
#note And...here's where it was lost. JEUX for 44 looks great and all, but I'd have done much better to cash in XU at 15D and hold the J. It didn't seem intuitive to do that, since there aren't great J spots around or anything. What I didn't think enough about was that the pool allowed a lot of solid 15A plays that could offset my taking a good lead with JEUX. Given that I'm keeping BII, that's a problem. XU kills that possibility, and there's not many places my opponent could score that well after that. Yep, board control, it matters. (Also, JEUX gives O column counterplay that my opponent is much more likely to hit than I am, given the leave I'm keeping.)
>Aaron_B: EFTT 15A FETT +37 359
#note And Aaron makes me pay. This move draws him almost even, and when you see what I just drew...
>Geoff: BIIILUV 6H VI. +6 371
#note Okay, well, this took a dark turn. I figure I'm pretty much dead no matter what I do, given this draw, so I settled on this bingo-blocking move to maybe reduce my losing spread. Quackle isn't as sure of this, but I'm not so sure of Quackle - there's no one-tile fishes that make sense, so I'm emptying the bag here, and my opponent will know what I have and play accordingly. He'd have to monumentally screw up to lose this. But what happened next was a little funny...
>Aaron_B: ?ACEOSS 11C SO.AS +36 395
>Geoff: ?BEIILU O6 BI.LEx +28 399
#note Oh god, E and blank were the last two in the bag, and I would have had BULIMIES if I'd fished off the VI elsewhere. My opponent knows words well, but if he happens to overlook BULIMIES (#, I'm pretty sure - don't ask me these days)...well, I've seen it happen, anyway. But I've closed off that possibility. BIFLEx was second-best, but (O)B(T)UsE for 40 would have been really sweet and lost by only 1 (assuming Aaron makes the same outplay he did, though OBTUSE allows EECH for 17 to win by 7.)
>Aaron_B: CEH A5 CHE. +11 406
#note Tough game. Really turned on the JEUX vs XU decision. I'd played well up to that point, but it only takes one mistake sometimes.
>Aaron_B: (IU) +4 410
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