Club Report 02-28-2007

[deillort]

Hello fellow Scrabblers.  Hope everything's going fine for you.  New month, so new style for my journal.  I won most of my games last night but I made mistakes a 1400 shouldn't make.  First game was against Mike Thelen.  Did a bingo-bango on him with the help of both blanks.  He answered with ANERGIES but it gave me JEON for 57.  Finally broken the losing streak against the man.  First mistake of the night was doubting KITH for 27, and so I had to use my S for a measly 35.  Second game was against Eric whom I requested to be paired with 'cause I've never played him.  It was neck and neck until I bingoed with SATAnIC on the 10th turn.  Second mistake of the night was letting go of bungy*.  Are 1400s supposed to master the 5s, or just the 4s?  I was feeling real good for winning my first two games.  Then came my third against The Big Dog.  He opened with LOOSELy and was starting to pull away so I tried indictly* which he let go.  Only because.....he got another darn bingo: BANISHED to the D of my phoney.  Then I made another whale of a mistake:  I challenged WALE!  WALE man, I bet you even sub 1000s know this word.  I'm a freakin' idiot sometimes.  Anyway before my last play, I was somehow ahead by 3 points.  There was only one winning play and guess what?  I didn't see it.  My only loss of the night.  My last game was against Mike Stevens.  It was a game of challenged off phonies.  First I tried ninty*, pfft gone.  Then cirrine*, kicked out of the board.  Then he misplayed AMBO to abmo*, so I returned him the favor.  Then he tried ixial* which I relished challenging off for it gave me my third bingo of the game to the L: MINSTREL for 70.  So overall it was a good night but I have to go back to the drawing board to straighten up my short words.

And now, the boards....



GAME 1 vs Michael Thelen (W 484 - 348)
Mine: DOCKING (67), BARNIER (81), JEON (57)
His: ANERGIES (72), HORNIEST (62), TYIN (33)



GAME 2 vs Eric Peterson (W 404 - 323)
Mine: STURDIER (60), SATANIC (79), DRAWL (39)
His: SEALING (88), bungy* (33), HAND (24)



GAME 3 vs Kent Nelson (L 393 - 388)
Mine: indictly* (64), ENGRAFT (83), FAYED (36)
His: LOOSELY (64), BANISHED (82), WALE (35)



GAME 4 vs Michael Stevens
Mine: FINESSE (80), RECANES (65), MINSTREL (70)
His: ROISTER (81), MAXI (49), BA (26)