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Posted By: Stick
Date: Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 7:00 p.m.

In Response To: Rollout (Keene)

you dont want to take against a weaker player in a money session (as that really takes away one of the edges you have

I don't agree with this. If any decision is borderline for money I take against a weaker player. This position is going to waste much time at all and a weaker player can always find things to mess up, it's impressive. They may not hit with those immediate sixes as they should, big blunders. They may not know when to take or drop later recubes. They may not know how aggressively they should or shouldn't be bearing off if they don't get a second checker. They may get the second checker and you could anchor and then do they trap or not? There's a slew of scenarios that someone could botch up and for money I definitely take.

In a match against the same player this is almost a no brainer drop. Not enticing to take a cube on 4, esp. when your recube vig in a match is virtually nul and void.

You dont want to take against a stronger player

I was unaware that such a player existed. If it did, let's call it XG, and I would tend to disagree for this specific position. This is a position that I can't possibly mess up the checker play. The only decision I may ever have is whether or not to recube, relatively easy decision. If playing stronger player and it's a borderline take/drop and I can't make any errors then jacking up the cube level would seem like a good thing to me.

you also hit with aces after a miss too, perhaps even a 3

I'm confused, aces and threes both hit a second blot when you enter.

Additionally I think it'd be a grave error to drop this in a chouette in terms of trying to get/keep the box.

Stick

Messages In This Thread

• Cube Action?
  Stick -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 3:25 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    Casper van der Tak -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 3:36 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    neilkaz -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 3:58 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    ah_clem -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 4:05 p.m.
    • Cube Action?
      Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 16 February 2011, at 5:03 p.m.
      • Cube Action?
        Keene -- Wednesday, 16 February 2011, at 5:07 p.m.
        • Cube Action?
          Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 16 February 2011, at 5:29 p.m.
          • Cube Action?
            Keene -- Wednesday, 16 February 2011, at 5:49 p.m.
            • Cube Action?
              Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 16 February 2011, at 7:04 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    Turz -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 4:10 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    christian munk-christensen -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 6:21 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    Keene -- Monday, 14 February 2011, at 9:40 p.m.
  • Cube Action?
    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 12:19 a.m.
  • Rollout
    Stick -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 1:54 p.m.
    • Rollout
      Keene -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 3:18 p.m.
      • Rollout
        Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 3:34 p.m.
        • Rollout
          Stick -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 3:38 p.m.
          • Rollout
            Keene -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 4:36 p.m.
            • Rollout
              Stick -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
              • Rollout
                Keene -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 10:32 p.m.
    • Rollout..a stronger bot chimes in
      neilkaz -- Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 4:46 p.m.