Everyone else's definition of luck: "I missed seventy bingos but I won anyway" Mack's definition: "I lowered my win chance by 1/36 but didn't get punished" Goes to show how crazy the standard is at the top. If this was one of the biggest mistakes of your tournament it's no wonder you won it all
Haha, in all seriousness though it's not so much that I squandered 1/36 win %, it's that I was unsure of an 8-letter word, which is wholly, completely, absolutely, utterly, and entirely unacceptable
Not only would it normally be shocking that you would chicken out of TITULARY, but TITULARY is not just some random word. It's one of the words that I famously set up in my patented one-short-of-the-TWS openings. It should be required Scrabble History knowledge to know of all of these opening plays. TITULaR H8 against Amnuay Ploysangngam at 2014 Nationals (annotated game 19245 on cross-tables) was I think my first time doing such a thing. Ironically, RUTTILy is probably the best play in that position, and I had absolutely no clue regarding its validity. But I'm me... :)
I miss several bingos at every tournament I play, and by "miss" I don't mean played the suboptimal of several bingos, I mean just straight up failing to know or spot the only available bingo (if there are several, I'll almost always find one of them). This was really funny to watch in terms of "look a this bad game I played". I had a good laugh.
If you have a high-scoring tile like the Z, it makes sense to place COVE that way, making sure that it can't be all blocked easily, as there are no parallel plays to COVE. This almost ensures good score for your tile.
I typically stop trying when I'm down 170 pts. To me, the interesting thing about this game is not that you got lucky after making a suboptimal play in the endgame, it's that you won at all. For me, being down 170 pts at any point in the game against a top expert like Jason Li would mean there's no hope of winning at all.
It actually bothers me when people stop putting full effort when they get behind. Like the spread still matters and it's unfair when the winner gets a bunch of free spread, when others don't get to play against someone not trying their best.
@@JasonVaysberg At major tournaments, I guess I still try when I get behind for the reason that some people get upset if I stop trying. But otherwise in most of the tournaments I've been in, I've never felt like I had any chance at winning a cash prize, and even if I did, it wouldn't be a significant amount of money, so I rarely care about spread.
@@JasonVaysberg Only thing I would add since it's unclear from my original post, is when I say "I stop trying" it's not like I'm just playing crap plays quickly but it's more that I'm not actually trying to win the game once it gets in that range.
@@asdfasdf4924but it does happen fairly regularly that someone comes back from a 150 (2 bingo) deficit - it's one of the cool things about the way the game is designed.
I used to feel really bad when I got really lucky, but I, like everyone else, have been on the opposite end many many times. What I do now is just ride the luck as long as it will take and, above all, don't squander it (one mistake I used to make is to continue to assume I will get lucky and just get more and more careless with each win).
Was doubting TITULARY a similar thought process to doubting HONEY - intuitively assessing its validity as an adjective and looking past the noun? (TITULARY is probably valid both ways; but it looks pretty suspicious as an adjective, while the noun is more common ["full royal titulary", etc.])
Haha when I was like 10 I was golfing with my dad, 13th hole of our local course. I was probably 60 yards off in the rough. Absolutely skulled my chip with a pitching wedge, it scurries through a bunch of rough and across the green, slams into the flagstick, and abruptly stops and drops into the whole!
12:12 Wouldn't yAUTIAS give back huge plays on the B column, that are probably easier to hit than huge plays in the A column after AmAUTIS ? (A bingo would probably put the game out of reach even without a TW, so the concern is these 30+ point plays with DL/TW or TL/DW, and these seem more common on the B column.)
