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#player1 WH Wendell Haynes
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>WH: AEGLORS 8D GALORES +70 70
#note 0:44 [24:16] A game between these two is likely to spawn phony bingoes, but this one is real.
>JJB: CIORSTV - +0 0
#note 0:56 [24:04] JJB sees vortices but cannot convince himself that gaolers has this anagram in TWL, and is also eerily confident that he will bingo anyway, so he challenges, with an opportunity cost of 60.0.
>WH: EHN 7G HEN +25 95
#note ~1:51 [~22:25]
>JJB: CIORSTV 6B VICTORS +81 81
#note 0:38 [23:26] Thankfully the bingo still plays! But a two-move total would have been better.
>WH: AET A6 ETA +22 117
#note ~1:40 [20:45] Surprise hook.
>JJB: AIOTTWX E2 TWIX. +30 111
#note 1:29 [21:57] Great find, but wax 34 has decent enough leave to be worth .9 more.
>WH: ET D4 TE. +23 140
#note 0:36 [20:09]
>JJB: AGLOTUY 2B GOU.Y +34 145
#note 0:57 [21:00] Tied with agouty in evaluation, but superior in retaining the directed hook.
>WH: EKO 1F OKE +26 166
#note 0:52 [19:17] Ok 3b 27 was probably also considered (and would be a potentially backfiring block), but balancing was likely necessary.
>JJB: AADLTUW A1 WAD +31 176
#note 1:20 [19:40] JJB prefers this leave but waul 34 rates 6.3 better and dawt 37 is 1.9 better.
>WH: JT C1 J.T +20 186
#note 0:50 [18:27]
>JJB: ALPQTUZ J8 .UQ +32 208
#note 4:04 [15:36] Nice synergy. The leave is +2.9.
>WH: ?AELNOU 10F NOnE.UAL +68 254
#note 3:41 [14:46] WH ties with apolune/aleuron b8 for best play, and also draws a hold. The play stands but neither player is bold enough to (rightly) add an S.
>JJB: ACELPTZ L8 PL.ZA +38 246
#note 1:48 [13:48] Eventually JJB decides not to get burned this way twice in one game, and drops the hold, recognizing that his play is sufficient answer.
>WH: AGII B6 .IGIA +16 270
#note 1:44 [13:02] Efficient!
>JJB: ABCENNT C9 NAB +11 257
#note 2:30 [11:18] JJB looks for but does not know bannet a10 31 (11.1 better). He is going for leave; however, if he doesn't care about S hooks, ban m12 14 is also fine. Points are available with the flashy plays lancet m10 and enatic 4a, both 29. Banc (20 in 2 places) is also a good leave.
>WH: BFI 2H FIB +19 289
#note 0:43 [12:19] WH spots one of the still-useful premiums, makes at least one bingo lane harder to use, and overall succeeds in rack balance.
>JJB: CEINRTV C5 V.N +24 281
#note 0:43 [10:35] The best play, just slightly concealed this time.
>WH: EIINOPS 13F PIONIES +78 367
>WH: EIINOPS -- -78 289
#note 0:43 [11:36] WH throws out a Collins bingo, pionies# 78, when sinopie 3i 77 would have been fine (68.2 diff). JJB is alert to the unlikelihood.
>JJB: CEIRRST 13F TRICERS +80 361
>JJB: CEIRRST -- -80 281
#note 2:15 [8:20] After challenging immediately, JJB decides that one risky play deserves another. This misjudgment is only 22.0 off the best play, perc 8l 24, with steric/nonequals 39 right behind.
>WH: EIINOPS 12C SINOPIE +76 365
#note 0:28 [11:08] WH challenges after 7 seconds and has his alternate bingo ready; JJB had thought of sinopia but completely blanked on its plural. 3i scores 1 point more.
>JJB: CEIRRST I12 .R +3 284
#note 0:56 [7:24] Though it looks doubtful, this play is only 2.2 behind, surpassed only by perc, steric, and the other setup orc f12 11. The leave is excessively promising.
>WH: DMNOU 14F MOUND +21 386
#note ~2:08 [~9:00] WH tries to make it harder while risking multiple triples in response.
>JJB: CEHIRST 15B ITCHERS +107 391
#note 0:29 [6:55] For some reason, probably haste and adrenalin, JJB does not recall cithers/richest (both play in row 15 and column N) and can only come up with estrich# and this phony. But it has the same score as richest 15b and stays put due to its hookiness.
>WH: DE A14 ED +51 437
#note ~1:40 [7:20] WH makes good, pulling ahead strongly, and now it's JJB's turn to hold the play again. The "hooks" on this phony are D, H, P. No shortage of word doubt in this game!
>JJB: DEFLMRY 3I FERLY +43 434
#note ~1:35 [~5:20] At least JJB has one good response he is confident of; it may even win (both ferly and fer take 25% of the simulation wins). E in the bag allows aerobia/aeradio, and I in the bag allows the 4-overlap areolate 87, and blocking will not help. Fer allows madly n2 in response to strong plays with A in bag, which accounts for its win rate, but that play can be blocked by a safe winning alternate like raiser 13i (interestingly madly does not win with blank in bag because the zero score shifting to JJB drops him below the winning margin!). Ferly's win percentage comes from E in bag, where areolar is beaten by med n6; but that is also beatable by raiser. So no play is likely to win to an opponent alert to replies, and the win can only be achieved by psychological factors.
>WH: ?AEEIOR M10 .AIR +21 458
#note 5:31 [1:49] WH considers laree and laired at m10, relaying out tiles repeatedly, but settles for lair 21 believing that he will have time to respond or that other plays are too open. After the game the players also spot raiser 29; all should win, as do many other plays, except of course lair, and plays that allow JJB a stronger response. It appears that (a)reolae m6 (for score) and ocreae/oreide 1j (for blocks) win by 8, a diff of 9.
>JJB: ADM 2M MAD +19 453
#note ~0:21 [4:59] JJB is shocked to take it by one and both are shocked to discover that WH had many wins available. Interestingly, dam/laird 18 will tie, as one point makes all the difference.
>JJB: (EEO?) +6 459
#note Both beset by vocabulary, these players keep relatively even despite a comedy of errors, many of which could be considered as significant and yet harmless. The last error turned out to be WH's last play and tracking lapse; JJB shares Ian Weinstein's sentiment in his game against WH at this tournament, namely, that the game did not deserve to be won. Points improvable based on tiles played: JJB 3, WH 10. Points improvable based on values: JJB 102.5.
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