Sunday 4:31 AM

Position matters. It's close between J-4 and J-Ac. J-Ac actually a slightly better discard(.1), but do I really want to leave myself with a single A to peg when I otherwise have a 4-card 11 to potentially play out, that play out does leave opp with 2 cards to potentially count on the other side of the go.

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All chalk until 9, coin toss pegging got me in the end.

Sunday 4:40 AM

Its more about where they end up here. So total defense might have been more play on if that cut would have been a six. dec

Sunday 5:07 AM

Like Dan’s thinking above.

Sunday 5:08 AM

Trying to play maximum defense. A-J is my best shot of stifling the crib. Lead the 4 and play off.

Sunday 5:53 AM

Nothing to help us move forward so looking to hold off dealer’s crib

Sunday 6:11 AM

Sunday 6:31 AM

I tend to agree with others on this one. Isn't a 4 card eleven best for dealer to hold? Was this a Ras tip.

Sunday 7:08 AM

Lead the 4h and announce, "see one, play one".

115-121 loss on CribbagePro today. I had some good hands too.

Sunday 8:06 AM

Dare to be different!

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Sunday 8:19 AM

Defense. Keeping the 445 together.

Sunday 8:27 AM

Gotta restrict the opponent best we can. Keeping 4-4-5 together still has good shots at high scoring hands after cut.

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Sunday 9:04 AM

Im keeping the 4 fives as odds favor a 10 value cut. Almost.

Sunday 11:07 AM

I kept it the way of the majority today. The reason for this submission is that in an old notebook I wrote, "The Cribbage Professor on SAFE with A-A-4-4-5-J kept A-4-5-J) for wider spaced cards, safer pegging and still a good chance chance to gpo out on your next Deal at the current score of 97-97*." But I am giving Dealer a minimum of 2 in his/her Crib! Is this correct, or did I write it down wrong? Maybe it was 97*-97, and *I* was Dealer. Since I wrote The Professor I must have been playing against The Prof, or I queried the puzzle on my laptop and this is what it told me todo. So I am very much hoping that HalscribCLX will respond today to see if he plays it SAFE, an*d if he keeps A-4-5-J, or if he keeps the *seemingly safer A-4-4-5(A-J). I say *seemingly* because you will note we have no escape Card.

Sunday 1:05 PM

Paramount to minimise the oppo's crib given board position.

Sunday 1:23 PM

At 97-97* playing a SAFE strategy for pegging the dynamic expected averages and Win/Loss %s are:

________________Dlr
Defense____Hand_Pegs____Crib____Total___W1 %___W2 %
AC-4-4-J____8.67+(-2.46)+(-5.93)=0.28____0.0____24.1
AS-4-4-5____6.78+(-2.48)+(-4.23)=0.07____0.3____28.7

Defense_______L1 %___L2 %
AC-4-4-J_______5.2____60.6
AS-4-4-5_______3.7____50.2

AC-4-4-J is better for expected averages by 0.21pt. but AS-4-4-5 is much better for Win %s and very much lower for Loss %s. So, I'll select the AC-J to discard.

After the 9 cut I'll lead the A and play Defense;

Lead_____________Dealer's Pegging Points____Loss %
4_________________________(-2.04)____________0.6
A_________________________(-2.34)____________0.4
5_________________________(-3.07)____________0.4

Although the 4 lead is lowest for Dealer's pegging Points the A lead is lower for Loss %s.

Sunday 6:54 PM

Why is there a difference between keeping the Ac or As?