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#player1 Jerry_Lerman Jerry Lerman
#player2 Mike_Frentz Mike Frentz
>Jerry_Lerman: AILOSX 8C OXALIS +42 42
#note Word Cup 2024, Round 28.
>Mike_Frentz: ?QRSTTY E5 SQu.TTY +72 72
>Jerry_Lerman: IW 9C WI. +28 70
>Mike_Frentz: CHLMRSU D11 MULCH +39 111
>Jerry_Lerman: CEEOR 15C C.EERO +33 103
>Mike_Frentz: AEMRRST H1 ARMREST. +83 194
>Jerry_Lerman: AEGINPZ 1E PAG.NIZE +71 174
>Mike_Frentz: ADEILOO M1 DOOLIE +36 230
>Jerry_Lerman: ?EEEOSY 14G EYESOrE +68 242
#note Jerry lamented afterwards that he needed to find this at 2C instead for a bunch more points and better defense.
>Mike_Frentz: AAEEJRU 13J AJAR +38 268
#note Or 7A RAJ, but I don't like the idea of throwing a big line open while my rack is terrible.
>Jerry_Lerman: ABEN 15L BEAN +37 279
>Mike_Frentz: AEEETUW 2E EW +30 298
#note Given that, even though we're just past the halfway point of the game, I hold the LAST THREE Es, I can safely play EEW instead, threatening the EEEW hook on the C column. I can't bingo with it, but I may not need to.
>Jerry_Lerman: DNOV 5G D.VON +18 297
>Mike_Frentz: AEEFNTU 2J FA +37 335
#note Quackle wants to tack the N on for four more points, but this is a pretty drecky pool, so I'd rather draw as few tiles as plausible.
>Jerry_Lerman: ADDR 6J DAR.D +24 321
>Mike_Frentz: EEFHNTU 3C FEH +26 361
#note Maybe FUN D2 instead, to preserve those Es. This also gives back a little less. (Misscored as 24.)
>Jerry_Lerman: GRT 3K GR.T +18 339
>Mike_Frentz: EIINNTU 4M .IN +6 367
#note I'm not in love with any play here, so I'd rather wait and see if I can get a sense of what Jerry's trying to do.
>Jerry_Lerman: BIILNOT 3H .I +5 344
>Mike_Frentz: EIINPTU 12M TIP +12 379
#note Jerry is the person I've played the most in tournament play (according to Cross-Tables, my record against him is 28-26), and I've seen him take an ugly pool like this and land something like OBLATION one time too many. This may be paranoid, but I think it's right. (Jerry said afterwards he was one tile alway from ABUTILON.)
>Jerry_Lerman: ILTU O8 TULI. +21 365
>Mike_Frentz: EINNOUV 4A OVEN +25 404
#note ROUEN L6 starts the best sequence, but this is good enough.
>Jerry_Lerman: ABGKOU A1 KOB. +30 395
#note (RAKU L6 first, blocking my outs and leaving GOBO.)
>Mike_Frentz: INU 8L UNI. +5 409
#note (Final score recorded as 415-395.)
>Mike_Frentz: (AGU) +8 417
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