Sports / Backgammon / CAE

 SO - I won a bet Saturday taking NYJets -2.5 over the Packers.  YES - Pre season games are awesome for wagering purposes. Seriously.  Look at that game.  You have a Packer team playing their 3rd string QB and not wanting to give away anything to the rest of the league vs. a bad NY Jet team who are trying to create a winning atmosphere with many players REALLy wanting to make the team.

It's not about which team is better but about what each team is trying to do in the game.  For instance, a couple years ago the Packers were playing  . . somebody and the coach told the world, "we are putting our CB on an island all by himself to see how he does". 

He got burned and I won a wager.  Pre season games are gold for wagering. 

So - since I have been doing well in baseball I found a Sportsbook open for American and was checking them out with their 200% bonus.  The lines are all better then Bovada so with the NHL being on my radar this year (the most exciting sport in pro sports) I might have to do some moving. 

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Backgammon.  I've been doing well on my tests averaging High Advanced.  Elwood was over Saturday and we played 5 games against the World Class opponent who LITERALLY did not make one error. We were in the high Expert range.  

I never had a clue if I was good or bad since it depends on who you are playing and winning or losing is really meaningless in telling if you played well and made the least mistakes.   

As Elwood said "I never knew there were so many critical moves in a game".  On average I'm averaging 3 errors and one blunder  a game.  SO - I'm printing off  every blunder and creating a book of blunders. 

The book is called "Don't Make a Blunder"   The interesting thing is that the way you play certain situations  has changed since the 1980s and the advent of AI and the neuro net.  A computer can play a game 50,000 times in seconds and show you exactly the correct move.  

For instance - the Opening rolls have changed slightly.  All fascinating. 

Here is a MAJOR Blunder against an Intermediate player - I'm bearing off to the bottom right and am WHITE (goign counter clockwise).  I rolled a 5/4.    OH - I gammoned the guy. 

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OH - looking at BETUS I checked out the Presidential race.  Harris is at +350. The closest Qepublican is Ted Cruz at +3000 (30-1 chance) 

 WILL DONALD TRUMP BE INDICTED BEFORE DEC 31ST 2021?  pretty much a toss-up  50-50 

Who in the criminal party/family (my words) will be indicted first?

Rudy leads the way with Donald Junior a very close second.  Who is Glenn Dubin, he is a close third.

OH - back to sports 

Packers Over Under in wins   -10.5 is the number  Will the Pack win more or less than 10.5 games 

Brewers to win World Series  8 to 1 chance   hmmmmmm  

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I'm doing some work for the Columbus Area Endowment group and was looking at my Columbus folder of photos and found a video from October 21s 2016. I had put my GoPro on my car and drove down James Street BEFORE the reconstruction and was SHOCKED.  

How horrible it looked.  Mangled old trees split down the middle with overhead lines - just clutter deformed trees too close to the road.  I'll have to do that again this year to compare.  

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I REALLY need a new desktop computer - this one has been running 24/7 for 12 years.  $300 new seems to be a good deal. WIN 7 but now WIN 11 is coming out soon?  I REALLY hate getting a new computer.  All my stuff is on the old one but once every 13 years I need a new desktop it seems.  LIKE CLOCKWORK.   Sadly I can't get a new graphics card - they are physically bigger then the box now LOL  

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Take care - HOT HOT MUGGY weather is coming