Maybe if you linked me I could translate it for you...? Is this from Heartland? Anyway, the way I see it "You want to keep your one away of 7 pairs while still keeping the dora meld and aiming for a meld hand." So I wouldn't be surprised if the next discards were 7c if you drew any bam from 5b to 9b...

@xKime Do you consider a kan a legal weapon of choice in mahjong? There's a saying that in love and in war everything's allowed... This has to be changed then to: in love, war and mahjong everything's allowed. At the moment I just can think of three situations where you want to make a kan: 1. when ...

I would love to see riichi ippatsu tsumo pinfu junchan sanshoku iipeikou, dora 3. In real life. A truly beautiful kazoe yakuman. Lovely. Do it with 30 honba, too. I would love it on my eighth renchan, though. I can do near-misses too - got these two just this afternoon! I don't think there' a thing...

Congrats. I also think it must be very frustrating getting renhou and realizing... "we don't use renhou here." Would you count it as a yakuman or not... I mean, I have gotten tenhou/renhou with tsubame gaeshi, but... still. I didn't want to improve it, really, I just didn't notice it was tenpai unti...

I'm pretty sure in one of Garthe's posts there is a mention on how often you see double riichi and how rarely you ever see tenhou/chiihou. Still, I always get double riichi as dealer, generally. That's why it's a frustrated tenhou. The other day I got to tenpai on my first draw as no dealer, but far...

I wouldn't worry, a yakuman is a rare occurrence. I get a few together in a short time, and then I don't get anything for a few months. Besides the other two from this week, there are some others I pulled off, for a change: Kokushi 4p: http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/6406/kokshiwusou.th.jpg Kokus...

Another for the collection, huh? :) I admit it'd be nice to see Nine Gates, but it's an expensive whim! Kaburi? ...as in "overdraft"? As in, like, you pay more points because you're oya/dealer and yeah. I try to respect the current oya, and not discard dora yakuhai or make unnecessary kan, but othe...

Just kidding, suu an kou. Nice, and much easier to score compared to counting all those yaku! (Gotta get me a penguin...) Certainly is. Still, I would have liked to score ura 3 just to know it was still kazoe yakuman by ron. Or just feel the same feeling as Kojima pro when he gets riichi, ippatsu, ...

I'm actually in exactly 0 points every time I start at 25000, throw a riichi stick and deal into a dealer baiman. Yeah, doesn't happen that often, but it does. I've seen (and done) this too, more often with a dealer mangan when playing under the wareme doubling rule. :roll: Wareme is such a bitch t...

Referee wrote:Just be glad your opponent on the left didn't have a third iisou instead of the extra 4 or 6, hehe.

I would have loved to deal into a chuurenpoutou.
I dealt into kokushi, payed the oya-kaburi for suu an kou tsumo and even dealt into an all green. A chuurenpoutou would at least have made me smile.

@xKime Thank you for taking the time and writing something really helpful and motivating. For me your post is the most valuable on how to play in quite some time. I guess there are quite a few people like me, who gained a little experience through online play but at some point don't know how to adv...

This one is from yesterday's grinding. http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5256/jrmss20101109062309.th.jpg Riichi, ippatsu, tsumo, menhon, san an kou, toitoi, haku, sha... Just kidding, suu an kou. http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6198/jrmss20101109062316.th.jpg http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6466/...

I'm actually in exactly 0 points every time I start at 25000, throw a riichi stick and deal into a dealer baiman. Yeah, doesn't happen that often, but it does. Also, it happens quite a few times that fate smiles on the other players at the table, and prevents me from killing the guy in fourth leavin...

Hi xKime. Good to see you posting here. When I'm catching up with blogs I read you, Osamu and Bazoro. I hope that your Etopen is still working his yakuman magic for you? :D You mentioned tile efficiency - I'm sure several members here would be interested in the excellent work you've been doing on t...

Hey, there. I play on Tenhou too. Currently 5th dan. I can actually relate to what you say. But please, do consider that people in the open lobby are not taking it serious anyway. Even I, myself, like to play anonimously in the open lobby when I don't want to think or want to test hand theories, and...