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An Unusual Match?

Posted By: Bill Riles
Date: Thursday, 24 July 2014, at 3:17 p.m.

I very rarely see a player winning a match when the opponent has a significant luck advantage.

I played a 17 point match last night that required 20 games.

In the first 5-6 games the opponent greatly outplayed me plus he had +7.5 luck -- not surprisingly I trailed 0-10/17.

Then the tide turned a bit -- I started playing better, the dice evened out a bit, and I think the opponent started getting a bit conservative.

I finally evened the score for the first time at 16-16 and then won the match.

In the final analysis, the opponent outplayed me in the range of his 6.5 against my 7.5. or so. Despite the luck turning a bit in the second half of the match, he still ended with a +2.8 luck factor for the match. Somehow I won.

Again, in my experience, I found it unusual that the opponent outplayed me and had substantially better dice yet was rewarded with a loss. Generally that is almost always a fatal combination.

Messages In This Thread

• An Unusual Match?
  Bill Riles -- Thursday, 24 July 2014, at 3:17 p.m.
  • An Unusual Match?
    Bob Koca -- Thursday, 24 July 2014, at 3:28 p.m.
  • An Unusual Match?
    Keene -- Thursday, 24 July 2014, at 3:33 p.m.
  • An Unusual Match?
    Igor -- Thursday, 24 July 2014, at 5:35 p.m.
  • An Unusual Match?
    Michael Petch -- Thursday, 24 July 2014, at 7:08 p.m.
  • An Unusual Match?
    willywonka -- Friday, 25 July 2014, at 3:41 p.m.