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#player1 Matt_Canik Matt Canik
#player2 Jackson_Smylie Jackson Smylie
>Matt_Canik: ?AGHRSU H8 UGH +14 14
#note Jackson and I played a best-of-7 series for money. He agreed to give me $100 CAD if I won, I had to give him $50 CAD if he won. Here's game 1....
And what a way to start off a big money series than with a missed bingo! I was pretty certain there was something here (and there is exactly ONE bingo), but it's a word I'd never seen before. Do you know it? (spoiler next turn)
I elected to play UGH and nearly placed it at 6H... maybe I still should have? idk.
>Jackson_Smylie: IIIIII -IIIIII +0 0
#note The bingo was cURAGHS, which can also be spelled CURRAGHS or CURRACHS
>Matt_Canik: ?AAERRS 7B ARRAsES +66 80
#note Whoa I was so sure that UGH didn't take a back S but apparently it does. Man, I forgot how humbling quackle can be
>Jackson_Smylie: DMOO 6B MOOD +30 30
>Matt_Canik: ?GNSTTT B6 ..TT +6 86
>Jackson_Smylie: DEEINV 10A VEINED +25 55
>Matt_Canik: ?EGINST 11E TEaSING +94 180
#note Ah!!! I looked for disconnected 10s for a few minutes but didn't find one - it also scores 94 like the other bingos here. (again, spoiler next turn)
>Jackson_Smylie: JO 9E JO +23 78
>Matt_Canik: BENNOPS 5D NOB +21 201
#note Time to start walling everything off
>Jackson_Smylie: DEIRV 12A DRIVE +33 111
>Matt_Canik: AEKNPRS 13E SPANKER +81 282
>Jackson_Smylie: CEENOPT J5 NEPOTE.C. +67 178
>Jackson_Smylie: CEENOPT -- -67 111
>Matt_Canik: AAEFITU 8A U.A +12 294
#note I don't see a lot to do here that doesn't open stuff up for Jackson - all 14J plays are out because he has the T for EFT (though I don't think I'd play there with this lead unless I had a 49-pointer to the DWS anyway) and Q actually puts this as the highest-simming play by equity.
>Jackson_Smylie: CEENOPT 14J NETOP +24 135
#note Nicely forking the board
>Matt_Canik: AEEFIIT 15M FIE +27 321
>Jackson_Smylie: AACIU 9H .UAIAC +13 148
>Matt_Canik: AAEIOQT L8 Q.T +22 343
>Jackson_Smylie: DEGMRU 15E GRUMED +34 182
#note GRUMED* is a phoney, I held but it's so difficult to challenge when you have a lead like this.
>Matt_Canik: AAAEIOO -AAIOO +0 343
#note Only 6 vowels remain in the unseen pool of 24, so I think holding two vowels here is actually ideal... once you see my draw, it DEFINITELY looks ideal!
>Jackson_Smylie: LY 5D ...LY +10 192
>Matt_Canik: ACENSWZ H1 WANE. +36 379
>Jackson_Smylie: FILO M5 FOLI. +22 214
#note Knowing what I know about jackson, this is almost definitely an X setup
>Matt_Canik: ACHILSZ 6L C.Z +34 413
#note I've got better, less volatile options like CHIAS N2 or HIS N6
>Jackson_Smylie: BOY O6 YOB +42 256
>Matt_Canik: AHIILRS 3H .IHILS +20 433
#note Hoping to be able to go out first, trying to avoid giving jackson an X bomb
>Jackson_Smylie: AEILTWX 2H .XEL +31 287
>Matt_Canik: AEOR J7 ER. +3 436
#note Right idea, wrong execution as I miss EARN for 3 more but I can't let him play ATW(A)I(N)
>Jackson_Smylie: AITW A12 .AWT +24 311
>Matt_Canik: AO N5 A.O +20 456
#note I walked away from this one wondering how I only won by 150, it felt like so much more...
>Matt_Canik: (I) +2 458
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