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Member of Farmingdale NY Club #621
First Tournament: Plainview, NY July '01
Tournament First-Place Finishes:
Plainview NY, Nov.'01, Division 4
Plainview NY, May '02, Division 4
Bayside NY, July '03, Division 3
Bayside NY, Aug.'03, Division 2
Stony Brook NY, Mar.'05, Division 2
Albany NY, July '06, Div. 2, 7-game Early Bird
Tournament Second-Place Finishes:
Flat Rock, NC, Nov. '01, Division 4
Plainview, NY, Dec. '02, Division 3
Plainview, NY, Feb. '02, Division 4
Plainview, NY, Mar. '03, Division 3
Brookhaven,
NY, Oct. '04, Division 1
2004 Nationals in
New Orleans:
Seeded 59th in Division 4,
finished 20th.
18 wins, 12
losses, +748 spread.
Averaged 391
points/game, 6th highest in the division.
2005 Nationals in
Reno:
Seeded 77th
in Division 3, finished 91st.
13 wins, 15
losses, -365 spread.
Averaged 378
points/game.
2006
Nationals in Phoenix:
Seeded 98th
in Division 3, finished 84th.
13 wins, 15
losses, -433 spread.
Averaged 392
points/game, but ALLOWED 407 PPG,
third highest
in the division! Wide open Scrabble!
Highest Tournament Score:
572 vs. Jim
Fonti
Highest Club Score:
603
vs. Al Zitzman
Highest Tournament Score by
Opponent: 573 by
Verna Berg-Richards
Highest Club Score by
Opponent: 631
by Frank Romano! Final Score, 631-214
COOL
PLAYS
- Highest scoring play:
In club - triple-triple BAROQUES for 212 points vs. Stu Goldman;
in tournament - triple-triple KVETCHES for 185 points .
- A seven-letter overlapping bingo!! In club game
vs. Richard Reiben, he hooks TAINTER* onto BIN late in the game
(which I left on the board because he originally laid down TERTIAN,
then picked it up). I then slotted SINUATE right underneath
it, to form BINTS, AI, IN, NU, TA, ET and RE
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Highest
combined game score (win) - 968 points (486-482 victory over Arthur Doreson in tournament game)
-Highest
combined game score (loss) - 1,026 points (521-505 loss to
Marjorie Schoenboom in club game, and I only took 10 pts. from her
rack at the end of the game!)
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A 10-letter bingo
through DISCONNECTED letters! LA on the board with an I two
spaces to the right of it. With rack of DNNORTU, I saw
possibility for the word and played off the R with a 1-in-20 chance
of drawing another U. I got it and played
UNDULATION!
- A 10-letter bingo: with ADD on the
board, and a rack of LINRST?, I played STRADDLING (club game)
- Another 10-letter bingo: with VEG on board and
rack of AAEINRT, extended it to VEGETARIAN
Five bingos in
one club game: PRONATE, UNRATED, SIENITES,
REALISE and SENOPIA
- Opponent opens with ZOA, which I extend to
PROTOZOA for 60 points (online game)
- Played a 6-letter overlay in an online
game. Opponent opens with HISTOID, and I counter with MEDIANT
below it to also form HE, ID, SI, TA, ON and IT.
-Another 6-letter overlay in club game: opponent
plays REASONED and I play LEGUME above the A to form LA, ES, GO, UN,
ME and ED.
- With rack of CEEIRU?, played VERJUICE through existing
J, in tournament game
-Two NINES in one game: HELLFIRES and bingoed out with
SENORITAS!
I'm quickly earning a reputation as a dangerous player of NINE-LETTER BINGOS!
40 and counting...
(letters in teal were already on the
board):
FLATTERED SENORITAS
HELLFIRES
PSORIASIS
PARROTERS UNBRAIDED
MEASURERS MISPLAYED
PERTAINED
INTERLACE
INACTIONS PLACATERS
MENTORING TELEMARKS STARCHIER
ENCRUSTED INFINITES OBSTINATE
BEDFRAMES
COLANDERS YEARLINGS
PILLORIES ATTAINDER TRIMESTER
FRAILTIES ISLANDERS TESTIFIES
FINALISES ESTUARIES TORTOISES
MARINATED LIBERATED ENTREATED
BORDERING TINCTURES UNITARIAN
TRADITION DEADENING GLOBALISE
RECALLING
DISTRICTS
ESTRANGER
MORE GEEKDOM -
MY W-L-T RECORD VS. CLUB OPPONENTS since 2003:
BERNIE MCMAHON
193 - 97 -2
AL ZITZMAN
194 - 44
BOB KRAUSE 134 -
38 -2
JIM FONTI
108 - 55
ARTHUR DORESON
68 - 48
FRANK ROMANO
38 -
63 -1
RICH REIBEN
36 - 60
STEVE SIKORSKI
47 - 40 -1
DEBBIE GUIFFRE
55 - 26
MATT STYCZYNKSI
48 - 35
RICH
FERRARA 32 -
44
MARIE PUMA
42 - 33
CARL
NAPLES 45 - 11
DENISE MAHNKEN
46 - 11
DAVE CONFORD
31 - 22
GEORGE BORSUK 33 -
14 -1
STU GOLDMAN
22 - 42
JIM YEE 28 - 13
COLLEEN SHEA
39 - 8
HELENE BROWE
12 - 24
MARJORIE SCHOENBOOM 10 - 16
ANNE ANNESE
19 - 3 -1
FLO GIORGINO
10 - 1
HAROLYN MEYER
9 - 2
EILEEN JOHNSON
8 - 5
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