{"id":132,"date":"2017-10-24T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=132"},"modified":"2017-10-24T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:22:21","slug":"october-21-2017-chouette-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"October 21 2017 Chouette Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a nice turnout for this month’s chouette – in addition to what I’ve come to think of as the usual suspects, Rob made an appearance, and brought along two new players – Ben & James. There was some logistical confusion due to a last minute venue change, but c’est la vie. Between that and people needing to drop off, we had from 3 to 9 players at different times through the afternoon (and let’s be honest, into the early evening…)<\/p>\n

There were a couple of positions that were interesting enough to record. The first came up when 6 of us were playing on one board. I know – we said 5 to a board max, but somehow that didn’t hold this month.<\/p>\n

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Martin was in the box, and doubled the field, thinking it was a drop. Lucky for me, I was late in the line to declare take\/drop, and could just go along with the crowd, otherwise I probably would have dropped. Mark F went first, and confidently declared a take. I think the rest of us were wondering what he was thinking, but lucky again, he explained in the email where he sent this along: “We have an anchor, the race is close, we have no checkers out of play, both sides have 3-point boards, and we have no loose blots.” Extreme gammon bears this out, we were still just over 30% to win, a comfortable take!<\/p>\n

The second position, I took a picture of came late in the session, when just Martin, Mark S, and I were still playing. Martin was again the box (again, not still! He had a good day I think, but not like that…), and we had doubled him earlier, and now he had a chance to repay the favor.<\/p>\n

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Prime versus prime, almost. He has 4-4, 4-5, and 4-6 to get out, or add 1-1, 3-3, 5-5, 5-6, and 6-6 to hit on the 2 point, or any other 4 to advance the anchor and get better distribution… High likelihood he looks much better after this roll. But, if he got say a 5-3, not great, we\u00a0might fill in the 5 point and then he’d almost certainly break his home board first… there’s a chance for us. So great time to double. As I recall, Mark S took and I dropped. What do you think?<\/p>\n

Extreme gammon puts Martin at 74% to win, with 16.45% gammons, and declares it a redouble-pass! One time my lack of courage served me well.<\/p>\n

Overall, another great chouette. We might try for a different venue again next month, or might skip a month due to the Vegas Open – stay tuned to find out.<\/p>\n

-Mark<\/p>\n

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