More Stacking

My last post wasnt really meant to single anyone out, I wanted to make the point that depending solely on stacking as an attack plan is not the way to consistently win games. Sure , there is a time and place for stacking. There are ways to employ it as part of your strategy, including the now famous term coined by my partner Hollypeenyo --- Ghetto Stacking which is what you do when you are way behind and pulling out all the stops in hopes of a victory. What I wanted to get across was that you shouldnt let stacking dominate your game to the exclusion of any other strategy. Cya at the tables

Rescue Me ...... Stackers

I recently read that Rescue Me has been picked up for a 5th season. Due to the writers strike however production is at a standstill. I hope that if the writers get what they are after they put out a better product for the 5th. Season 4 kinda sucked.

Chronic Stackers.... love em, hate em , gotta deal with them. Cmon people, If you know decent words try to use them. Its not necessary to stack every play. I played one person recently that had opportunity to play on 1 of my tiles in 3 or 4 places for decent long words but the player had no place to stack on anything I had played. Instead of taking one of my tiles and playing the decent word this player opted to stack on their own word. WTF???? In another game with a totally different player the same damn thing happened. I wanted to laugh and at the same time i wanted to smash my monitor. Stacking isnt bad when its used right but damn try a few regular words too. I have seen players ignore an er or ed steal for 6 or 7 points to stack instead and leave the er or the ed in the rack. What the hell is that about ???? Pay attention to the game. Sure stacking every play will win you a game against an average player quite often but against better players you should try to think the strategy before you play. Ok enough of that catch ya at the tables.

NovelWoman

I got word yesterday that longtime Hoyle wordoxer NovelWoman passed away yesterday. She had an inoperable brain tumor. Many of you may not know her but when i started playing at hoyle many years ago she was very nice to me and any new player that came in. She will be missed , my condolences to her family. Thanks Rick for sending me the update i know she was your good friend also.

Spyware

Got up saturday morning very early intending to play steal and ox all day. Much to my surprise i kept getting weird popup ads about security and my desktop background had been taken over by a security warning. I ran adaware , spybot, antivrus and a few other cleanup programs but nothing would remove it. The spyware had names like smitfraud, virtumonde and outerinfo.

After running those removal programs all morning i got fed up, dug thru my junk til i found my restore CD's and wiped everything and reformatted back to the settings the pc had when i got it. That was more fun than you can imagine. It took the rest of the day Saturday and a good chunk of today to get the PC back to where i wanted it. On the bright side it runs quite a bit faster.

Things are going great at the steal league. New players come in every week and some old timers too. Glad to see them all. Check every day for tourneys they wont always be on the front page.

Cya at the tables