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#player1 Erica_Norris_Bodrazic Erica Norris Bodrazic
#player2 Samuel_Kaplan Samuel Kaplan
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: HOO 8F OHO +12 12
#note After a strategic come from behind win against Mark last round (despite a couple errors to start), I am feeling pretty good coming into this one.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?DIILST 9F DISTIlL +70 70
#note And what do you know? After 2 consecutive blankless games, I see one on my opening rack. This or 9F DISTILs are both fine, I prefer to make it harder for her to reach the triple word this way.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: FO 10I OF +28 40
>Samuel_Kaplan: AAEJLNU 10D JEAN +25 95
#note Looks fine, there's no great scoring plays. I could hang on to the J with 10C LAUAN or 10C ULNAE, but there's just no reason to do that here.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: AESX 8L AXES +39 79
#note This was misscored as 38.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AIKLRUU D10 .UKU +30 125
#note Easily best. Nothing else is even worth thinking about.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: OPW 7L POW +29 108
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEHILQR 13C Q.AIL +30 155
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: AOV 6L OVA +35 143
#note If she had an N or an L, this is a nice play.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EEHINRS 11H RESHINE +79 234
#note While Erica briefly pretended to be me in Round 3 by coming all the way back, this play is ultimately more defensive than 12F HENRIES by blocking many bingoes starting with the S on Column O, so I went with this.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: ALMT N10 M.TAL +26 169
>Samuel_Kaplan: DEEUVYY 12L DU.Y +32 266
#note Best play.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: GI 14B GI +17 186
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEEOVYZ 14G OYEZ +38 304
#note And let's continue to play offensively defensive. No more easy bingoes with QIS or METALS.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: EEGRTT 15D GETTER +47 233
#note That is a very nice play.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AABEISV 13M B.A +25 329
#note Almost every move to this point has been fairly obvious, but here, this sims a little bit ahead of 15L VISA which was also considered. Ultimately, there's still a B and 2 Cs left for Erica to open the top left hooking OHO. Hard to call this a mistake depending on how you look at it seeing it's hard for her to really bingo on this board anyway.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: BO 15A BO +15 248
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEINSTV 7A NAIVEST +75 404
#note The valuation of VAINEST is higher than my play, not sure why. Maybe after she's been fishing the V would be harder to 3x3 thru? She won't score as much using Column A on average after NAIVEST than VAINEST. Thoughts?
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: ADDEIR A3 DRAI.ED +30 278
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?ACEINN 3A .ECeNNIA +72 476
#note Small mistake this time- 5F NArCEIN or ENChAIN are both 1 more each. Not a big deal at this point, I still got this one locked up. #findingsmall
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: GMPR H1 GR.MP +39 317
>Samuel_Kaplan: EFLORTW O1 TROWEL +46 522
#note Yep. And she likely won't block B6 FA as she'll be stuck with some stuff.
>Erica_Norris_Bodrazic: CEINRU 2K CURE. +14 331
#note The best spread cutter is A1 UN(DRAINED).
>Samuel_Kaplan: F 6A .F +26 548
#note Overall so much better. When I don't put myself in an early hole and I find my plays, it leads to wins more often than not. Back to having a large spread with my 3 wins so far, and final score was recorded as 552-330.
>Samuel_Kaplan: (IN) +4 552
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