The red 5-dot is emphasised on 3 important reasons: 1. To increase your hand by 1 han 2. To prevent your opponent from getting this 1 Han 3. To prevent your hand from revealing too much information. (Not able to utilize a red five shows a lot) If you look at your situation now, you have ponned a dor...

I will be playing on 17 December at 6am PST/11pm JST.

Is anyone here playing in the tournament? I'll be playing on 17 December.

Hello Ignatius, I finally have the time to work on this thread. I've seen your whole game and I believe most of the points are highlighted by Iapetus. The issue here is not quite each individual hand per se but more of your foundations, basic concepts etc. Your most important thing to focus on is yo...

hahaha No problem. I'm quite patience in explaining. Or rather, I'm quite happy when any player continues to ask and explore. The problem with 123ssk is that, it is not confirmed and it bet on getting a pair of 6-bam dora or aka 5-crak pair which is not so easy. Also the value of your hand can becom...

Just a few questions; I'm trying to understand this better. since you are not expecting any formation of pairs from 2-crak 3-crak 5-crak 6-bam Why can't you expect to get a pair from the 5-crak 6-bam ? There are 6 of them out there with lots of tiles remaining. By I don't expect it means I wouldn't...

Damaten is fine here since you can't account all 4-dot, I would suspect right player has the last 3-dot. Very few 2-bam 3-bam are accounted as well so 1 of the player definitely has your 1-bam . Even if you do riichi and win this hand, it is only 1.3k. If you tenpai and reach a draw, you get 1k or 0...

I voted 3-bam since you are not expecting any formation of pairs from 2-crak 3-crak 5-crak 6-bam Red 5-crak shouldn't be discarded. Tile efficiency of 5-dot 6-dot 6-dot 7-dot and 2-crak 3-crak 5-crak 6-crak is the same and you kill sanshoku though its not the main point to be considered. Manzu are l...

Common 1shanten shape you would encounter: 2-dot 3-dot 5-dot 6-dot 7-dot 7-bam 8-bam 9-bam 4-crak 5-crak 1-crak 1-crak :west You need ONE of any 1-dot 4-dot 3-crak 6-crak to waiting. 2-bam 3-bam 4-bam 5-bam 6-bam 7-bam 1-dot 1-dot 2-dot 7-dot 7-dot 2-crak 3-crak You need ONE of any 1-dot 3-dot 7-do...

Just to clarify. I wasn't considering an Aka dora. The following example has 7.7k with your melds. 5-bam 6-bam 7-bam 9-bam 9-bam green-dra green-dra Sorry. I probably use the terminology, "melded" wrongly because I was trying to refer to the hypothetical hand above. In this case, hatsu is counted as...

7.7k is just a hypothetical score that your opponents can deduce based on your melds. melded 2-bam i 2fu, melded :south is 4fu melded green-dra is 4fu. your other set can be 5-bam 6-bam 7-bam 9-bam 9-bam That will give you 7.7k. I actually don't understand why wouldn't anyone bother to defend given ...

I would not overrate 4 tiles efficiency over 3 tiles efficiency of green-dra There is a non-obvious benefit of waiting for hatsu. Given your discard pool, it was obvious that you are doing honitsu. Players wouldn't wish to deal hatsu that potentially gives you a 7.7k. If you don't allow hatsu to be ...

uh... I don't really understand. To look check whether 8-dot will be discarded is about the whereabouts of 6-dot and 7-dot isn't it? I don't think it has anything to do with the number of 8-dot in your hand. On the contrary, I think the more 8-dot you have, the more likely other opponents want 8-dot...

Ignatius wrote:
Being all those out, chances are another could be unneeded

Just a short example, when you have , upon drawing , you will discard .

It is a common occurrence and are still needed

My quick decision is to take this tenpai. Reasons being: 1. There's no need to aim for concealed for a bigger hand. Wining this 7.7k is big enough to secure your first. 2. There are this hand and the next hand for 2nd to catch up to you. You cannot afford to defend when you can attack. The only risk...