"Wrong is right." Stick said: "When deciding between some random play and making the 5 point, make the 5 point and safe yourself from harm. If you're wrong and make the 5 point your error is tiny whereas if you make the dreaded 'other' play, your error can go blunderful."
Sure, that was an advice about the 5 point, not the golden point. But since the heydays, both 5 points were regarded as the fulcrums, the corner stones of modern, strategic play. I thought, i could extrapolate this to the golden point. After all, it is also a five point. With the golden point, i thought, i am in the game for a very long time and with this assurance playing a bit more aggressive in the offense is possible.
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| 1. | Rollout1 | Bar/24 20/15* | eq: +0,239 | |||
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eXtreme Gammon Version: 1.21, MET: Rockwell-Kazaross
That was surprising. The Man said: "In Poker it´s all about making the wrong move at the right time !" And i got another chance in this game to make a wrong move at the right time. Here it is. The man from hamburg with the dresen board, which name i forgot, once told me, he met an american who always shipped the cube, owning both five points. And that did i. I pushed hard, he called my bluff, but lost a gammon. A bad beat story for him.
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretsky
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| Blue on roll, cube action? | |||||
eXtreme Gammon Version: 1.21