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#player1 Verna_Richards_Berg Verna Richards Berg
#player2 Samuel_Kaplan Samuel Kaplan
>Verna_Richards_Berg: IKR 8G KIR +14 14
>Samuel_Kaplan: CDDNOOU J6 CONDO +24 24
#note Very close in the sim between this and J5 UDON. 7 points was enough to justify a slightly worse leave.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: GINU 6J .UING +12 26
>Samuel_Kaplan: DHILOTU K10 DHUTI +21 45
#note Verna is another player that I like open boards against, but this was the wrong way of going about this position. It did not look to me like Verna kept the X after CUING, and nothing keeps that great along with giving back hotspots. I felt that this was the least likely to get punished because she wasn't keeping great tiles. M3 HOU(N)D is a little safer positionally even with its own drawbacks. #strategymedium
>Verna_Richards_Berg: AX J13 AX +52 78
#note So I would have given Verna considerably good counterplay on Column N after HOUND. Still, not what I needed to see.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEJLOOR 15G JOLE +43 88
>Verna_Richards_Berg: GRZ L4 GR.Z +28 106
>Samuel_Kaplan: AIOPRRW I10 PROW +29 117
#note No floating E for AIRPOWER. Looks fine.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: EV N4 VE. +7 113
>Samuel_Kaplan: ACEIORV 11D VOICE. +22 139
#note I liked the turnover here with still no Ss or blanks on the board at this point. So I passed up 7L ZOA.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: Q F10 Q. +31 144
>Samuel_Kaplan: AAABRRY D8 BRA.A +26 165
#note I would have liked to have drawn an E to do BRAVERY to clean up the rack a little better. But this is the best I can do.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: NOW G5 WON. +12 156
>Samuel_Kaplan: AAIILRY E3 AIRILY +25 190
#note I hated the leave of IIL with so many Es left, but F4 RAYA would have been fine to do here. IIL is less than 10 points worse than just an A. Starting with Verna's next move, the game got out of hand quickly given how bad this board is becoming.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: ESSTT L10 SETTS +43 199
#note Very nice parallel from Verna. Misscored as 44.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AEEGLNO H1 AGONE +26 216
#note After Verna had to use 2 Ss to score respectably, I didn't mind making this play. Unfortunately, her good draw and my awful draw would prove essentially fatal to my hopes of winning this game.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: ?BDHIST 1H .DHiBITS +98 297
#note Very nice find from Verna here! Sucks that she had no playable bingoes until I gave her this though.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EILOTUU -ILOUU +0 216
#note While I was trying to go for an A for the ABY hook, 8A OUT(BY) is clearly the play here. I missed that. #findinglarge
>Verna_Richards_Berg: AE F2 AE +6 303
>Samuel_Kaplan: ADEMNTY 2H .EM +28 244
#note Gonna slow the game down by playing fewer tiles while behind.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: AMS M11 MAS +37 340
#note She's gotten everything except the J this game so far. Now I kinda have to press a little.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ADNRTTY 1A TYRANT +33 277
#note Now I have absolutely no choice but to have to open. This game has been absolutely terrible. Not because I'm not playing well (unlike Rd 4), but because absolutely nobody would stand a chance with the racks I'm pulling. Not a beginner, not a seasoned veteran, not even Nigel. Nobody. Think of some of the games that Mack Meller has gone through in his series with BestBot.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: FLOP C12 FLOP +23 363
>Samuel_Kaplan: DEEINUU N8 NUDE +18 295
#note After looking for a while, all hope was lost. I have no shot of winning this game. I can't fish for anything and I won't score anything trying to fish for a bingo. I mistakenly thought Verna might have out bingoes into the D if I had done 15A DU(P)E instead.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: ?AEEEFL O7 FE +21 384
>Samuel_Kaplan: EIIU G10 I.E +16 311
#note If there's any silver lining, at least I got a perfect bowling score plus handicap.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: ?AEEL 15A rE.EL +21 405
>Samuel_Kaplan: IU 4L .U. +7 318
#note A1 TUI is my only out.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: A B1 .A +10 415
#note She has M6 NA for 5 more. I'm amazed I only lost by 100 given all the garbage I pulled. And it' also less than half of my famous 712 game, which was...you might remember...against Verna. Great game! Final score was recorded as 418-318. 3-2 +40.
>Verna_Richards_Berg: (I) +2 417
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