Explain The Blunder

Likely has to do with safety. Blue will try to maintain his anchor to generate shots. As a result, while he has a strong board now, he likely will be forced to crunch (or run a checker off the anchor, allowing you to attack) fairly soon. The best idea then is to play safe now even if thatÂ’s a bit riskier later. Breaking the 8 point leaves shots on the very next roll with 65 or 54. There are no rolls that leave a shot after breaking the 7 point.

Yeah, I missed 61 leaving a shot on the best play. Was just thinking sixes were killed and forgot you’d have to move 8/7 7/1 on that roll. Still the best play is safer as you said, even if not perfectly safe.