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#player1 Jason_Li Jason Li
#player2 Joshua_Sokol Joshua Sokol
>Jason_Li: AADENPS 8H LIVEY +30 30
>Jason_Li: AADENPS -- -30 0
>Joshua_Sokol: DNNOORT 8G DON +8 8
#note what's the right move here? DON and NOD give him VI(N)Y setting up VI(N)YL, exchanging gives him IVY which is perfectly fine for him. Playing long with RONDO or TONDO or DONOR might give him something he needs, like VELLEITY with the T or DELIVERY with the R. Are these fears justified, or are they just meant to prevent me from losing my cool in the very off-chance they happen?
>Jason_Li: EILVY I6 VI.Y +15 15
>Joshua_Sokol: BGNORTU F7 BURG +16 24
#note well, I lost my mind anyway. I chickened out of BRUNG and figured this was probably around as good, and I also missed BOURG in the same spot. BUNG is also looking better. Ugh. Guess I tunnelled on not having an E for BURGONET.
>Jason_Li: EFL 10H ELF +25 40
>Joshua_Sokol: BCENOST 9H B.E +18 42
#note I basically made the right play here and dropped the B. But then I feared he would know how to respond well to that and put me into an infinite loop of fishing unless I got lucky and hit immediately. So I played this instead and blew up my masterpiece of a rack and hoped to get lucky some other way.
>Jason_Li: EPRTW 11J TWERP +26 66
#note however, I succeeded into making Jason think I might not have an S, which was the main goal of putting down the B and then adding the E after, which should indicate I have an S but actually might do the opposite, since I should be comfortable on this board if I have an S and not need to set it up like that.
>Joshua_Sokol: ACNORST O5 CONTRAS +88 130
#note did not remember CRATONS
>Jason_Li: DOQSU K5 QUODS +39 105
>Joshua_Sokol: ADELOTW N6 WO +28 158
#note A few days after this tournament, I looked over a couple of older games. In one of them I missed LEADWORT and said something along the lines of "I kind of remember this word". I missed it while looking at the annotated game, and felt the exact same way as I did when I wrote the comment about missing it. Now here I stand today feeling for a third time that I didn't remember LEADWORT in Saratoga. I also missed it and it's not the easiest thing to spot. And I also didn't see it looking at this rack. Had I played CRATONS, I would not be looking to retain my T to hook onto CONTRAS later and divert Jason by setting up a very strong lane for myself.
>Jason_Li: ?CEOOTZ E1 ECTOZOa +87 192
#note and now he's just trolling me.
>Joshua_Sokol: ADELORT D7 DELATOR +73 231
#note ECTOZOA does not take a hook. And I'm not looking it up to back myself up. ENTOZOA takes L and N. And the ZOA word I played against bnjy at BAT takes only an N and I tried to hook an L onto it. This is my recollection of the events.
>Jason_Li: EIOV 2B VOI.E +24 216
>Joshua_Sokol: AAJLLMN 1D L.MAN +31 262
#note I like my J's with extra leman. Quackle likes JAN(E) first and hoping to draw a stronger play up there while getting rid of the clunky J.
>Jason_Li: AEIU M9 AU.EI +12 228
>Joshua_Sokol: AEFJLNS 8A JAN. +33 295
#note I missed JEF(E) in the same spot. What? You got a fuckin' problem with that? I best hope you do
>Jason_Li: ?ADIKSU 2H ADzUKIS +74 302
#note he could just win this game if he plays ADSUKIs 14B but he didn't recognize it.
>Joshua_Sokol: EEFGLST 12L F.ET +41 336
#note This move, I saw both candidate plays.
>Jason_Li: IIIIIY -IIIIIY +0 302
>Joshua_Sokol: EGHLNNS 3D N.H +17 353
#note 1M HEN is best
>Jason_Li: EIP L2 .EPI +31 333
>Joshua_Sokol: AEGLNRS B7 S.NGREAL +76 429
#note I was very certain of JANGLERS but not certain enough. This allows him only half of the bingo chances awarded after JANGLERS, so it's totally justifiable. Sorry, I'll cut the crap, this was total bullshit on my part. I'm garbage.
>Jason_Li: AEX E11 AXE +35 368
>Joshua_Sokol: AHIIRTY 1M HAY +34 463
#note saw that HIT might be better but didn't have time to calculate to the end. -6
>Jason_Li: EGIIM F13 MI +11 379
>Joshua_Sokol: IIRT N11 ..TRI +16 479
#note played with 1 second left. Not a word in TWL
>Jason_Li: EGI 15F GIE +18 397
>Jason_Li: (I) +2 399
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