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NewsReno Results - Juraj's storyPosted by Juraj P on Wed July 08, 2009 at 8h00
Reno Results
I had a great time at the event and played reasonably for my rating.
I was hoping to have earned some rating points or some money after all
my studying, but instead just played at par.
There were many good lessons to be learned though.
1. Always look at the tracking sheet before making a play.
I hastily played PAWS through an S on a dangerously open 3x3 lane.
I left an E on my rack. Problem was that 2 E's had been played but
7 A's already. That means that E's are coming. My next rack was
CREEMED, where an A sure would have been helpful instead of a third E.
Thus PEWS would have been 100x better. Yes E's are better than A's but
not always.
2. Careful how you're opening the board
I played TAW to open the board, exposing the T, A for my bingo prone
rack. I was up by 100 or so and figured an extra bingo could happen soon.
The only unseen, high scoring, power tile was the Z. I clumsily exposed
the TLS square beside the A in TAW and allowed an easy 65 pt Z play.
I could have just as easily opened with TEW, or should
have maybe just kept the board locked.
I get my bingo down. But there's still another blank unseen, my opponent
bingos and now I'm stuck in a totally lost endgame.
On a positive note, I managed one game with 5 consecutive bingos,
against Nancee Mancel. (With only one blank!)
Here were my 5 consecutive bingos
ADEMRSU
ABEOUP? through an R (for an 8)
EANPUST
DEIORSY through an L (for an 8).
and then I started to feel guilty after I had played four
bingos and my next tiles out of the bag were EIRN.... Oh oh,
I feel another one coming on!
EGILNRS
Estelle Matthews had a reasonable tournament too, finishing on par with
expectation. Both of us picked up $50 in a 3rd place finish in one of the early
birds.
Finally Rick Wong, Jeff Widergren, and Kyle Widergren did an excellent
job directing. I especially like how they calculated the performance prizes.
They computed the expectation that players should have achieved against their
actual opponents (cross tables has to estimate who you'll play). Then they
compared this with an actual results and that seemed like an extremely fair
way to measure performance. Kudos guys! (They had to write a quick program
to do this computation). It was an excellent tournament and I strongly
recommend it. The hotel was very nice and the $59 room rates were unbelievable.
This rate is locked in for 5 years, at two tournaments a year, one in Jan
and one in July. Hope to see you at the next one.
Div 1
Ply# Name W - L - T
4 Benedict, Nathan 20- 8- 0 1656
1 Wiegand, Dave 20- 8- 0 1036
10 Robinsky, Rob 18- 9- 1 1296
2 Johnson, Carl 18- 10- 0 1419
6 BassettBouchard, Conrad 18- 10- 0 358
20 Moyer, Richard 18- 10- 0 -34
35 Walton, Noah 17- 11- 0 1333
8 Matsumoto, Kenji 17- 11- 0 347
3 Dackman, Joe 16- 12- 0 1126
11 Mancine, Dominick 16- 12- 0 1036
5 Weinstein, Ian 16- 12- 0 893
32 De Guzman, Edward 16- 12- 0 480
12 Meyer, Nick 16- 12- 0 210
23 Gaspard, Joseph 16- 12- 0 -310
14 Polatnick, Steve 15- 13- 0 573
7 Schonbrun, Lester 15- 13- 0 -231
16 Singleton, Tom 15- 13- 0 -279
30 Pellinen, Steve 15- 13- 0 -364
18 Pistolese, Mark 15- 13- 0 -370
9 Kantimathi, Sam 14- 14- 0 716
24 Smith, Keith 14- 14- 0 298
19 Widergren, Jeff 14- 14- 0 -211
13 Heidler, Greg 13- 14- 1 -366
27 Goldman, Stuart 12- 15- 1 -106
15 Martinez, Lewis 12- 16- 0 187
26 Rickhoff, Kevin 12- 16- 0 20
17 Baker, Michael 12- 16- 0 -56
28 Tran, Christiane 12- 16- 0 -311
38 Martin, Jeff 12- 16- 0 -316
25 Karris, John 12- 16- 0 -384
22 Shafritz, Luise 12- 16- 0 -428
42 Cornelison, Betty 12- 16- 0 -636
29 Seales, Cynthia 12- 16- 0 -984
39 Leavitt, Brian 12- 16- 0 -1129
34 Weissman, Emely 11- 16- 1 -485
36 Tyler, Cheryl 11- 16- 1 -693
37 Hamilton, Ruth 11- 17- 0 -243
33 Merrill, Karen 11- 17- 0 -298
41 Martinez, Derek 11- 17- 0 -951
31 Wiley, John 11- 17- 0 -1506
21 Wallis, Carlene 9- 18- 1 -558
40 Catanese, Paula 6- 22- 0 -1735
Div 2
60 Steele, Denver 20- 8- 0 1029
69 Jacobstein, Bennett 19- 8- 1 384
43 Mayer, Carlynn 19- 9- 0 1096
49 Burbridge, Kevin 19- 9- 0 861
48 Igra, Amnon 19- 9- 0 810
54 Mancel, Nancee 17- 10- 1 301
63 Short, Glenda 17- 11- 0 826
65 Robbins, Bradley 17- 11- 0 720
52 Green, Miriam 16- 11- 1 1098
90 Yamamoto, Elaine 16- 11- 1 658
53 Pivovarov, Juraj 16- 12- 0 907
50 Wier, Michael 16- 12- 0 831
57 Whitman, Alan 16- 12- 0 391
91 Burlant, Jim 16- 12- 0 382
66 Houlgate-West, T C 16- 12- 0 255
73 Barfuss, William 16- 12- 0 185
81 Hay, Anne 16- 12- 0 9
74 Wade, Marcia 15- 12- 1 -13
58 Palmer, Vail 15- 13- 0 467
56 Peltier, Mark 15- 13- 0 284
67 Goldmann, Eyal 15- 13- 0 263
61 Unger, Dan 15- 13- 0 177
46 Wagner, Brian 15- 13- 0 135
55 Beard, Susan 15- 13- 0 1
70 Brooks, Lee 15- 13- 0 -350
45 Smart, Gary 14- 13- 1 262
82 Braden, Arthur 14- 14- 0 530
71 Koselke, Phyllis 14- 14- 0 156
75 Fischer, Jim W 14- 14- 0 -169
78 Moyer, Polly 14- 14- 0 -484
47 Dolgenos, Peter 14- 14- 0 -530
86 Dwyer, Max 13- 14- 1 -379
87 Page, Susie 13- 14- 1 -481
44 Stevens, Michael 13- 15- 0 817
64 Romann, Judy 13- 15- 0 547
93 Jonnalagedda, Raghuram 13- 15- 0 268
88 Mocine, Joan 13- 15- 0 190
51 Gott, P K 13- 15- 0 -160
59 Meyer, Alan 13- 15- 0 -188
79 Averell, Irene 13- 15- 0 -377
96 Gray, Lizzy Kate 13- 15- 0 -575
62 Singh, Lewis 13- 15- 0 -624
85 Elliott, Janet 13- 15- 0 -658
92 Bogle, Julia 13- 15- 0 -1096
76 Pivnik, Eric 12- 16- 0 515
94 Strick, Richard 12- 16- 0 -95
84 Parrish, Mary C 12- 16- 0 -441
77 Lindgren, Tapani 12- 16- 0 -564
80 Johnson, James 12- 16- 0 -597
72 Cowan, Gretchen 11- 17- 0 18
83 Morley, Maggie 11- 17- 0 -480
68 Diener, Pat 10- 18- 0 -342
95 Anderson, Zana 10- 18- 0 -357
89 Villena, Marina 10- 18- 0 -941
98 Toole, B A 10- 18- 0 -989
100 Oda, Lois S 10- 18- 0 -1120
99 Tuttle, Gabrielle 7- 21- 0 -1689
97 Agdeppa, Gloriosa O 5- 23- 0 -1674
Div 3
107 Nelson, Matthew 21- 7- 0 1164
102 Brown, Steve 20- 7- 1 910
104 Rickhoff, Laura 18- 10- 0 584
101 Hawkins, Scott 16- 12- 0 864
110 Bryant, Jean 15- 12- 1 605
108 Scott, S E 15- 13- 0 -10
116 Simmons, Todd 14- 14- 0 485
103 Wier, Louella 14- 14- 0 376
106 Smith, Aron 13- 13- 2 -123
105 Eilertsen, Chora B 13- 15- 0 -208
109 Rickhoff, Paul 13- 15- 0 -456
113 Irvine, Marie 13- 15- 0 -488
115 Treshler, Michael 12- 16- 0 -666
112 Nelson, Byron 11- 17- 0 -705
114 Matthews, Estelle 8- 19- 1 -459
111 Morrill, Julie 5- 22- 1 -1873
ANSWERS TO BINGOS:
REMUDAS - herds of horses
POURABLE
PEANUTS
SOLDIERY - the profession of being a soldier
SLINGER (LINGERS too)
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