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#player1 JJB John J. Bulten
#player2 WS Will Scott
>JJB: CEEIRUW 8D CURIE +20 20
#note 1:04 [23:56] (ureic 8h 20 +.5) With both players at two firsts out of three despite losing records, WS draws P and JJB draws D and begins. An ugly rack has two easy 20 scores, with ureic favoring premium safety.
>WS: ?BGIORT G5 ORB.TInG +64 64
#note 0:55 [24:05] (bigotry 7h 65 +1) WS is facile with the bingo reply.
>JJB: DEEFINW 10F W.FE +18 38
#note 2:00 [21:56] (wifed h1 42 +18.3) Both players need to review the hooks on wife: DSY, but not R. JJB can get 42 for wifed right now but it doesn't look 100% to him.
>WS: AAEGOSS 11D AGO.E +20 84
#note 1:26 [22:39] (agaroses 6d 63 +32.8) WS now draws an obscure bingo out of the bag, agaroses, but it's invisible. Agone/s is the best line otherwise.
>JJB: ADEIKNP H1 PIKED +42 80
#note 1:35 [20:21] JJB now has tiles to use the triple and even the score straitly.
>WS: AEORSSU J9 AROUSES +74 158
>WS: AEORSSU -- -74 84
#note 2:06 [20:33] (arouses j6 74 +65.1) Bypassing the safe placement with ae and the option of rousseau to the U, WS must now decide which is the right hook on wife. However, he chooses poorly.
>JJB: ADNOTVY J7 NAVY +40 120
#note 2:17 [18:04] (davy j7 41 +3.0) JJB at least knows that hook is phony and challenges after 86 seconds of deciding what else to do as well. Since JJB cannot block both bingos, he is okay seizing the hook himself for score. Davy (as in "davy jones") is slightly more protective, but then navy later wins the prize for best river-related word in the division.
>WS: AEORSSU K2 AROUSES +68 152
#note 0:43 [19:50]
>JJB: DIOSTTX 12B TIX +38 158
#note 1:29 [16:35] And a quick X puts JJB back in the lead after two opponent bingos.
>WS: EELMNPU L8 PLUME +32 184
#note 0:30 [19:20] WS spots a good location for P and uses it: slightly better than umpteen 34.
>JJB: DILMOST K11 MOL +24 182
#note 2:35 [14:00] (mod j2 27 +6.8; mol j2 25 +1) JJB does not spot the best location for his M, which is j2, and playing mod gives a better leave either way, with ILST rather than DIST.
>WS: EEFGNRY 13C FEY +38 222
#note 0:55 [18:25] Another indicated thirty pads the lead; both players are working toward bingos, and one of them will succeed.
>JJB: DDIOSST I2 DIDST +25 207
#note 3:21 [10:39] (dildos 13i 31 +10.6) While this is a lovely overlap, it's not enough points when plume/d is available and can lead one to find dildo/s (playing the second S is marginally better).
>WS: EEGNNNR L1 GREEN +26 248
#note 0:51 [17:34] WS rapidly performs the same 5-word feat (for the same score as genre/mole).
>JJB: AHIOQRS 2F QA.. +34 241
#note 1:02 [9:37] JJB has conveniently set up a Q spot unintentionally, and it's still neck and neck.
>WS: AAEHINN 14J HENNA +38 286
#note 1:27 [16:07] Now WS can use row 14 with yet another premium letter.
>JJB: HINORRS 15H RHO +23 264
#note 1:18 [8:19] (rhino 15f 29 +2.8) Though JJB can lament not even seeing rhino 29, its leave is a slight setback over rho for a bingo-hunter. Hisn/hennas 42 is only a half-point ahead of rho on leave.
>WS: AEEIILO 3B AIOLI +21 307
#note 0:22 [15:45] WS has drawn four vowels to his two, but there are still good dumps available: ogee/woo/fee 19, oilier 10, or oleic 14 if he hadn't spotted aioli/qi.
>JJB: IINNORS 1L .IRN +15 279
#note 2:18 [6:01] (inro 4b 18 +4.2) Now a tough choice to seek to preserve the bingo. If he had considered the unassuming row 4 overlap, JJB might have spotted inro plus 4 words for 18, to do better in points and leave than seizing the triple. But he wants to open more lines here rather than close them.
>WS: AAEEOVZ 2A AZO +48 355
#note 0:31 [15:14] Good prep against the blank or S bingo. Given that all the synergy is on the players' racks and none in the bag besides the blank, this play has about 65% win hopes against JJB's actual rack. Blocking the bingo lane directly, though, is even better prep: azo/an/za 39 wins about 90% of the time. If JJB's rack were random, the two spots would be about even, but given the clear work JJB has put into the rack the need to block is the bigger factor than the points.
>JJB: ACINOST O8 CATIONS +89 368
#note 0:37 [5:24] JJB finally gets the bingo and selects cations, and it only gets him a lead of 13 with six to draw; it's best but only wins 60%+ of cases that he can see, and fewer if it's assumed WS has more synergy than the bag does. JJB is now at the mercy of the bag, even though he didn't give up that many points so far. Every little bit counts. (Note: actions is comparable at 50%, but atonics wins only 20% due to J response.)
>WS: AEEJUVW 14E AJEE +34 389
#note 1:44 [13:30] (weaver 6b 22, debt 14d 28, jut b10 26+4 +5) And WS has drawn the J with sufficient power to guarantee the win starting from 13 behind, while JJB has the blank with five consonants. Simplest is to cash out VW for weaver 22 while holding JU in abeyance. WS's choice will not go out in two but will win by 6 with best play.
>JJB: ?BDLTT E5 DeB.T +14 382
#note 5:08.9 [0:15.1] (butt n9 14, guv 12g 15, old d3 8+8 +12) Since WS still has two V spots (rev and guv/feu) he's not likely to get stuck, and JJB must just find points, and they are now hard to come by. The best he has after 5 minutes is to give himself a single blockable out because the 3- and 4-tile combinations are just not well-matched. He neglects column N, where debt plus 4 words scores more for his chosen tiles, and batt/bitt/butt gives him the requisite multiple outplays. WS can now shut down his sole out and win by 18.
>WS: UVW 3K ..V +12 401
#note 0:37 [12:53] (ow d3 10, toe 12j 3, rev 3k 12, la a1 6+2 +13) The path is to spot toil c1, to see that there are no alternatives, and then to recognize that ow 10 blocks it and allows both rev and guv as followup. JJB can block guv and go out but because he was blocked first the play will still favor WS. By seizing rev immediately WS will only win by 5 instead of 18, but it's enough.
>JJB: LT C1 T..L +4 386
#note 0:02.2 [0:12.9]
>JJB: (UW) +10 396
#note After starting with four playable bingo racks and only engaging two of them (allowing his opponent to stay even), WS then goes on to make seven optimal plays in a row based on his full racks, enough to defend against a strong triple bingo where the better balance of his rack compared to the last six tiles in the bag was a decisive factor and endplay inaccuracies were forgivable. JJB's errors were not as large as missed bingos, but he needs to play words like wife/d and plume/d more often, and watch all parallels closely. Known points available: JJB 13, WS 19. Overall points available: JJB 58.2, WS 116.9.
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