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we need a lot more Al Fallers
Posted By: Coolrey In Response To: we need a lot more Al Fallers (Chuck Bower)
Date: Wednesday, 25 February 2009, at 1:00 a.m.
To me, Al was a guy with no real fear. He had some funny jokes too, even though they were not politically correct. As I reached the semi-finals of the consolation, Bill Riles and Jeb Horton came up to me to state:
The bookmakers are making you a 4-1 favorite in your semi-final match.
As this lookes suspiciously like a premature gloat, I got a little worried. They showed me the Al Faller position and described the action. I was glad I would be playing someone capable of such misplays, but experience told me that I might not want to be doing it with the cube escalated. Nobody mentioned that he was reckless with the cube to me. Also, in looking at the original Al Faller position, I noted that he had achieved a 6 prime, so no matter how bad he played it after that... uhhh, he must have has SOME clue.
I kept Al talking and we had a few interested onlookers, who had heard of this phenomenon. I didn't expect much fear from him, and I saw NONE. So I was what I would call "patient" with the cube. Fortunately I could not wait another roll when I had 4 builders in position to make a 5 prime despite being behind a prime of his own, I think a 4 prime. I made the bar with my builders, he cracked and I won a G to take an 8-1 lead. I protected the lead by not doubling and he won the next TWO games with 35-1 shots. Others might have escaltate the cube trying to take advantage of his "weakness" and paid a higher price for those 35-1 shots, I don't know.
I learned long ago that a strategy that works better than it "ought to" is to play all 1 point games after getting a lead of 8-1/11. Gnu and Snowie might slap you around a bit... but you will be laughing all the way up to the guy holding the cash envelopes.
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