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#player1 Orry_Swift Orry Swift
#player2 Jim_Burlant Jim Burlant
>Orry_Swift: AIV 8H VIA +12 12
>Jim_Burlant: DEFGHUW J7 W.UGH +16 16
#note Yuck - talk about a bunch of uninspiring options. I should apparently just take points with 9I FEW for 24. Bleah.
>Orry_Swift: EIP K9 PIE +27 39
>Jim_Burlant: BDEEFMN L10 EMBED +32 48
#note I may have gotten the first one wrong, but this is correct. I don't like the S hook I've opened, but 32 points is 32 points.
>Orry_Swift: GLT 13K G.LT +10 49
#note Orry told me post-mortem he did not have an S. He figured that he could get away with this because there's already the S hook on EMBED, so it's not like he's creating new danger by doing this.
>Jim_Burlant: AFIINOS 15H INFOS +39 87
#note Or FINOS in the same location. I considered the rack grooming FIDO 14J but thought it gave back too much if he didn't have a word ending in S, which is why I chose this. 57% to win, but not for very long.
>Orry_Swift: EEELNST M5 STELENE +73 122
#note Play incorrectly scored as 71.
>Jim_Burlant: AIOORTX 8M .OX +30 117
#note Other options (K5 OXO) or N6 OXO either give up too much on the scoreboard or have board position liabilities. This is best - 37% to win.
>Orry_Swift: CDEHIR 5G CHIDER. +26 148
>Jim_Burlant: AIOORTT H1 TOOT. +27 144
#note Or TORAH. Quackle likes this best, but looking at the pool, maybe TORAH since there are 4 R's and only 2 T's unseen? Outside of my opening rack I really haven't made any mistakes, but my winning chances are slowly trickling downward. I was 37% and change to win on the last turn; that's down to 34-1/2 now.
>Orry_Swift: EGRV 2F GR.VE +15 163
>Jim_Burlant: AILRTUZ 3J LUTZ +28 172
#note I debated between a bunch of plays here. I didn't see 12H ZIT, I didn't like what 14F ZIT did to the board, , and I rejected G5 CUZ due to lack of turnover (both blanks unseen and he's turned 4 tiles). Best appears to be 12H ZIT for 35. The consolation: no matter what I played here, my rack was going to be screwed on the next turn. Up to 41% to win.
>Orry_Swift: AKRSTUY -5 +0 163
>Jim_Burlant: AAIRSUU -AUU +0 172
#note I was going to throw back the A and draw 5 to RS, but watching Orry exchange 5, I figured (correctly, as he told me during the post-mortem) he had probably thrown a bunch of them back in so I held mine.
>Orry_Swift: EEIMRRS O4 REMI.ERS +68 231
#note Only bingo for Orry, and he's 78% to win.
>Jim_Burlant: AIORRST - +0 172
#note I saw this as a little more desperate of a situation than it really was. I do have decent board opening plays available (e.g.: TOR I11, G6 COR, and 14F RATIO). Having said that, I thought that this was phony, like most of the RE-verbs. I was wrong. From this piont on, I can't win the game. I draw several more racks of swill, and by the time I grind through the clunk and manufacture racks of ADELOST and ACEOQT?, there's nowhere to play them. Final score 275 - 386, Orry's win.
#rack1 ABDEFOP
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