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#player1 Joshua_Sokol Joshua Sokol
#player2 Eric_Tran Eric Tran
>Joshua_Sokol: BCGOQXY H7 BOXY +32 32
>Eric_Tran: AAEIIPT I8 PIA +25 25
>Joshua_Sokol: ACEGQRT J6 QAT +37 69
>Eric_Tran: AEIIIIT -AIII +0 25
#note we discussed this position after the game. I like this decision, and so does Quackle. Quite unlikely he will double his I's with only 4 left unseen, so it's useful to keep the I for QI, even though it's vowel-heavy. Perhaps IT but that's probably going a bit too far.
>Joshua_Sokol: ACDEGNR 10H ..G +11 80
#note I liked this as it gave nothing back except a difficult-to-hit hook. I hit with AE and he might very well give me an 8 or another spot for a 7. I could play GRAND or GRAD but I think that's not a good idea after his exchange.
>Eric_Tran: AEEIOST K5 OI +15 40
>Joshua_Sokol: ACDENRR 5K .RC +5 85
#note did not see CEDARN over the board. It plays at K9 for 26 and doesn't take a hook. Heck, Eric might even challenge it although he's usually good on obscure 6s as demonstrated by PARDIE and DONSIE in Vancouver last year. CEDARN is however made much less of a good play by the implication that Eric has a vowel-heavy bingo-prone leave, which pairs well with a floating N and R. So this looks OK.
>Eric_Tran: ADEEOST K9 OE +10 50
#note TO(R)SADE is 32 but Eric is down 45, he would very much prefer to bingo.
>Joshua_Sokol: ADEJNRR N4 RAJ +32 117
#note I missed that JARRED played at L7 for some reason. Eric first put down OE and (G)O, which would have given me 50 for JARRED, but it's 41 here. This is not very good considering Eric is likely to have another O or an S here. I lost a lot of ground on this play.
>Eric_Tran: ADEOSTZ O1 DOZES +58 108
>Joshua_Sokol: DEIMNOR L8 MIRED +33 150
#note lots of plays to consider here, but this made sense since he might have another S and I don't want to give him a hook for it. Otherwise MERINO or NIMROD on column L make sense.
>Eric_Tran: AEEFILT L1 FILE. +24 132
>Joshua_Sokol: AEINOTV 3I VIO.A +24 174
#note I missed VO(YAGER) here, which is interesting. (M)OVE I would have played if I felt that I wasn't as far ahead as I did. I am only 18 ahead, so perhaps the aggression is warranted over the slowness of VIO(L)A, but also I didn't like AINT, even though a lot of vowels have been played. Not sure here. What would you have done?
>Eric_Tran: ACEEITY 1G ACETI.Y +45 177
#note however I did not expect him to score 45 points here and open the board! I guess MOVE was the move.
>Joshua_Sokol: EHNPRST J1 .H.N +15 189
#note this is my best fish, hitting over 50% of the time.
>Eric_Tran: AAM 8L .AMA +24 201
>Joshua_Sokol: EIPRSTW 2N W. +10 199
#note was either fish again or play TWERPS/TWIRPS and blow my rack to pieces. I hit 90% of the time
>Eric_Tran: AEEFNOS M11 FOE +20 221
>Joshua_Sokol: EIPRSTU 2A PERITUS +74 273
>Eric_Tran: AEEGNST C2 .EAGENTS +72 293
>Joshua_Sokol: ??ELLNR A2 .RuNELLe +74 347
#note also PRUNELLO and PRUNELLA. I knew PRUNELLO pretty well but was most sure of this.
>Eric_Tran: DIKNOTW B5 OW +31 324
#note Eric put a lot of thought into this vs. TOW. I think his plan was to play K(I)ND next turn and keep IT, however he loses too much ground in terms of bingo chances, and he can just score elsewhere with the K such as with E3 INK.
>Joshua_Sokol: ADEGRSU B9 SUGARED +74 421
#note DESUGAR is one more but definitely worse, allowing 3x3s to occur.
>Eric_Tran: BDIIKNT A14 BI +25 349
#note D1 B(I)DI goes for (A)NTINUKE in two spots. I guess he was going for a phony or hoping I would open something?
Anyways he basically can't win here regardless.
>Joshua_Sokol: HLNNOUV 12A H.UL +22 443
#note nothing in the pool here, so I should block K(I)ND or K(I)TE or INK 3E with D2 (I)NN. This is around a 25-point drop and I was aware of this at the time, however my spread was good enough that I didn't need to worry about that and just take the sure win.
>Eric_Tran: DEIKNTU D1 K.ND +36 385
>Joshua_Sokol: NNOTV O7 N.V +6 449
#note missing VO(YAGER) again... -16
>Eric_Tran: EITU N12 ETUI +14 399
>Eric_Tran: (NOT) +6 405
#note too bad CAR(BOXY)LATED didn't come up.
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