Probably fine to just do L12 OY here. I didn't want to keep 2 Rs, but keeping an extra R isn't quite 11 points worse. #strategymedium

1st big mistake of the night- I missed 13H IRONW(O)OD for 63. #findinglarge

Rd 2 of Philly virtual 1-24-2021. SEXLIKE* is not a word fyi. I know some of you all wish it was. Q does understandably like 8G KEX a little better, but KEX will get paralleled too often by someone like Jay. This allows the board to stay open for reasonably longer, but EXILES is probably even better than this. #visionlarge

J8 IODIN would have been sick and given me a 2nd lane to use for bingoing. #visionmeh

L4 RUTTIsH was missed, but this doesn't sim that far back. Still a mistake. #findinglarge

Probably just cut spread with 8M SIX at this point. The draw last turn basically lost the game for me on the spot. #strategylarge

It's none of Jay's BEESWAX what I have on my rack (except if he tracked correctly which he did). Sadly there is no spot for this cool bingo and I would go on to miss F1 WAXE(r)S saving multiple out plays with BE. #endgamelarge

I just had to tunnel vision on exchanging. 14A VENIN is 30, and it would have been worth playing thru this rack. #visionbad

i purposely played it a bit more open instead of the obvious 7E PAW, but i think that's a mistake. probably just keep it closed. -3 #tacticssmall

i thought i had made a huge mistake here not playing A11 LINGA but quackle still likes 1A CAL best. maybe i did make the best play. shrug. +3 #strategybest

now this is a mistake. playing ZOO would just work out better. i didn't want to keep two Ns but i have a good chance of using one the next turn if not bingoing outright. ugh! -2 #strategysmall

ANIMI instead of my sad steam play. sigh. -1 #tacticssmall. it seems funny because i'm such a points person that it's such a small error, but it feels like ANIMI is a far better play. is it?

this is wayyyyy too steamful, and i thought i was focused. D10 YEN or YER or even better, 15E AIRY are fine! i'm pretty sure i saw AIRY or at least i should. what am i doing exchanging? bad mistake. -16.5 #strategylarge

i missed inboard, i quit. -5 #knowledgemedium

HE takes a Y CESAR. ARGH. CHRIST. i was freaking out that i was going to lose. -8 #findinglarge

it might be that the best way to win is to try to go out next turn. O9 CONDUIT/NOCTUID score a lot and may be possible ways to do this. totally didn't see them. minus a lot, #findinglarge

i only played this because i thought it was phony and it might not take an S. i'm ridiculous. #endgame

G1 BERK for 10 more is clearly better than this. #visionmeh

jeez, sigh, totally missed the anagram of OPES -- PESO. even 6H OP is pretty decent. OPES is just like "here be my guest and score some points / bingo". -7 #knowledgemedium

i actually did not see RACINOS at K1 at all, it's still better, can't sacrifice 6 pts like that. -3.5 #findingmedium

i did consider G10 DUNG but i didn't want to open it up for him after his last play or two. his rack kind of smelled of blanks (i can smell them) and i thought i should keep it a bit closed. i maybe could play H1 GNAR too, or 5M GOD or something. either way, i'm in decent shape. -3.5 #strategysmall

i considered not burning my S. i could save that spot, or let him burn equity trying to block it. what do you think? i could play 1G GYNO keeping RST. or even GYNOS keeping a more synergystic RT. -2 #tacticssmall

very annoying, playing HAE instead of HIE. i still do this crap too often. -5 #tacticsmedium (or what is this? i have no idea how to qualify this dumb error)

giving him ES as a leave. i also have to assume that he doesn't know BANDA (for the purposes of getting lucky, i mean). matt did a similar play to this one a few weeks ago and i lost because i didn't block it. in this case, my rack is so garbage that quackle thinks i should mostly ignore it and try to clean up my rack. he probably won't bingo - the bag kind of sucks, but there's big tiles out there so his next score is going to suck for me. the main problem with ID is that it only reduces his average score by about 13 next turn (from 61 to 48), which is not enough to warrant making such a bad sacrifice on my end. so this situation is not at all similar to the one two weeks ago, when i actually had a great block. i really should have done some math here and realized ID was bad. 13K IRID is the play -- -7.5 #strategymedium

maybe TITHE keeping the R hook for next turn? quackle likes 12A TITLE, which seems counterintuitive to me, but i think i need to keep scoring spots open for myself too. -2.5 #strategysmall

i wonder if i should actually exchange. quackle likes 14J WRIT. at this point in the game i'm low on time and not thinking straight; there's a lot of Es to draw so if i play WRIT i give myself a chance at JEU (which is hard to block) or even JOULE. i need to play faster and stop taking so long on every play so i have time to actually think here. -7 #strategymedium

Didn't know 3I MALLEI #knowledgemedium. This is 3rd.

wow, it looks like i made a very amateurish bad play. i'm surprised I6 OF(T) and 9I OF sim THAT much better than it. i gotta get better!! - 12.5 #strategylarge

i need to find stuff like DWAR(FED). i just need to. -3 #visionmedium

just KEP apparently. hm. -4 #tacticsmedium

i'm fine with trying to make it a bit harder for him to bingo here and drawing some high pt tiles. quackle still likes just KEP or KOP, hm. -4.5 #tacticsmedium ? i think my play isn't terrible

it seemed too easy for him to bingo making metrics if i play it at 12H. but then i can get a big Z play! if i play my metric and he bingoes i might not get much back! -3.5 #tacticsmedium

That was a disastrous draw to a promising leave, but maybe (L)OGAN in this spot is a little better. #findingsmall

Not exactly a fan of this position either, but the fact that I just drew another A makes my miss of LOGAN look that much bigger. Since the X isn't that good of a tile on this board, it's probably better to just take the 2 more points with 9F (T)AX instead of trying to force the board open, even though I like open boards better against him. #strategymedium

Maybe VASA in this spot? #findingsmall

No home for MONIKER on this board, but it should be KINO in the same spot. #findingsmall

Looks like the clear best play. Glad I saw this one as nothing else scores even close to this. #visionsolid

Sucks that O2 POL(Y)ENiC got blocked as well as the flashier but lower scoring N1 PENO(N)CeL. The P isn't that great on this board, therefore B2 CLOP would have been fine. #strategymedium

M9 JUN is 4 more spread points. #endgamesmall

10A DHOTI would have been really nice for 6 more and I save the J for another scoring play! Gotta learn to find higher scoring without needing power tiles sometimes. #visionmedium

I had the right idea if I wanted to go here, but it should be UDOS in this spot with the K on the board already. But even better is setting up another S hook with H5 DO(ZEN)! #visionlarge

Should be M1 O(R)E regardless of how many vowels he might still have. #findingmedium