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    From pepstein5@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 23 13:31:28 2022
    I'd be interested to see people post their good luck and bad luck stories. Today, I had a game where my winning chances against XG were
    approx 1 in 100,000. I rolled miracle after miracle until the final roll position where I just needed 44/55/66 to win, and then I failed.
    It's funny the way I half expected to win when I got to being "only"
    an 8% underdog.
    That inspired me to ask for similar stories but they're not that interesting unless the (good or bad) luck continues.

    Paul

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to peps...@gmail.com on Mon Jan 24 08:04:21 2022
    On 1/23/2022 4:31 PM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'd be interested to see people post their good luck and bad luck stories. Today, I had a game where my winning chances against XG were
    approx 1 in 100,000. I rolled miracle after miracle until the final roll position where I just needed 44/55/66 to win, and then I failed.
    It's funny the way I half expected to win when I got to being "only"
    an 8% underdog.
    That inspired me to ask for similar stories but they're not that interesting unless the (good or bad) luck continues.

    This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I recently
    played a game against XG where my first five rolls of the game
    were all 31. Then I doubled XG out.

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    Tim Chow

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  • From pepstein5@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Tim Chow on Mon Jan 24 06:01:09 2022
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 1:04:24 PM UTC, Tim Chow wrote:
    On 1/23/2022 4:31 PM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'd be interested to see people post their good luck and bad luck stories. Today, I had a game where my winning chances against XG were
    approx 1 in 100,000. I rolled miracle after miracle until the final roll position where I just needed 44/55/66 to win, and then I failed.
    It's funny the way I half expected to win when I got to being "only"
    an 8% underdog.
    That inspired me to ask for similar stories but they're not that interesting
    unless the (good or bad) luck continues.
    This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I recently
    played a game against XG where my first five rolls of the game
    were all 31. Then I doubled XG out.

    ---
    Tim Chow
    What was your PR for that game? (I'd guess 0.)

    Thanks,

    Paul

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to peps...@gmail.com on Mon Jan 24 09:11:39 2022
    On 1/24/2022 9:01 AM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 1:04:24 PM UTC, Tim Chow wrote:
    On 1/23/2022 4:31 PM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'd be interested to see people post their good luck and bad luck stories. >>> Today, I had a game where my winning chances against XG were
    approx 1 in 100,000. I rolled miracle after miracle until the final roll >>> position where I just needed 44/55/66 to win, and then I failed.
    It's funny the way I half expected to win when I got to being "only"
    an 8% underdog.
    That inspired me to ask for similar stories but they're not that interesting
    unless the (good or bad) luck continues.
    This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I recently
    played a game against XG where my first five rolls of the game
    were all 31. Then I doubled XG out.

    ---
    Tim Chow
    What was your PR for that game? (I'd guess 0.)

    I don't remember, but I don't think it was zero---although it was almost
    zero. I think there was one very close decision where I didn't pick
    XG's preferred play. It might have been that XG thought I had a small
    double on my penultimate turn.

    ---
    Tim Chow

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  • From pepstein5@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Tim Chow on Mon Jan 24 06:49:15 2022
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 2:11:43 PM UTC, Tim Chow wrote:
    On 1/24/2022 9:01 AM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 1:04:24 PM UTC, Tim Chow wrote:
    On 1/23/2022 4:31 PM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'd be interested to see people post their good luck and bad luck stories.
    Today, I had a game where my winning chances against XG were
    approx 1 in 100,000. I rolled miracle after miracle until the final roll >>> position where I just needed 44/55/66 to win, and then I failed.
    It's funny the way I half expected to win when I got to being "only"
    an 8% underdog.
    That inspired me to ask for similar stories but they're not that interesting
    unless the (good or bad) luck continues.
    This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I recently
    played a game against XG where my first five rolls of the game
    were all 31. Then I doubled XG out.

    ---
    Tim Chow
    What was your PR for that game? (I'd guess 0.)
    I don't remember, but I don't think it was zero---although it was almost zero. I think there was one very close decision where I didn't pick
    XG's preferred play. It might have been that XG thought I had a small
    double on my penultimate turn.

    You did well to miss that double. Then XG would have taken, and it would have been much more challenging to win and also get a good PR.

    Paul

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  • From Nasti Chestikov@21:1/5 to peps...@gmail.com on Mon Jan 24 09:44:48 2022
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 21:31:29 UTC, peps...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'd be interested to see people post their good luck and bad luck stories. Today, I had a game where my winning chances against XG were
    approx 1 in 100,000. I rolled miracle after miracle until the final roll position where I just needed 44/55/66 to win, and then I failed.
    It's funny the way I half expected to win when I got to being "only"
    an 8% underdog.
    That inspired me to ask for similar stories but they're not that interesting unless the (good or bad) luck continues.

    Paul

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_tXVJVaBjU

    Try that bad boy.

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