Suu Ankou: Should I Try?

[or2az]

Glad I wasn't on the clock for this one. Here's the situation.
It's East 4 of hanchan. Dora is . I'm barely in 2nd, quite a ways from 1st. There are 35 tiles left and practically no bams on the table. Also have an isolated getting more dangerous the longer I hold it.
Then I drew the . What would you do now?

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[ardiel]

I'd chuck the and go for it but I'm a crazy gambler and half psychic that likes to win big hands so you probably shouldn't listen to me. Or at least take a lot of salt with it.

[Shirluban]

Considering the pond, there is only one 5 remaining so only the next player can take it, and he obviously doesn't want it since he already has discarded two of them.
Unless, of course, if someone rons it:
• North is furiten.
• East has discarded 2 and 8. Either he's furiten, or waiting for something else, or insanely put himself on a hell wait for an (aka)dora.
• South has more lee-way, but waiting on the pair or _67_ is still unlikely (three 7 are already out). However, he could well be waiting on _34_.

In conclusion, I'll discard .
It's not exactly safe, but it's a calculated risk.

[or2az]

Logical. Toss the . I am now tenpai waiting on the . If I draw either of them, do I pass on the win since even a direct hit mangan is not going to get me to 1st with that point spread. Need more, but there is still another round to play.
Should I consider riichi and take that win (have 3 dora already) to narrow the gap to 1st?
(or continue to try for the yakuman, perhaps settle for San Ankou, Toi-Toi)
WWYD?

[Gnom]

With south left to play, take the win if you tsumo. A yakuman is always nice but your hand isn't exactly small as it is. If you tsumo it you're in range for a 1st place with a mangan, and you're not in position to immediately loose a rank either.

I'd riichi if it's a game that counts and it's a normal situation, I'd dama if the game isn't important (for the chance for a yakuman), or if the context made me need a lot of points (do or die kind of situation: say I'm pretty late in a tournament, the opportunity to score a lot could put me back on track regardless of my situation in the current game).

[Kyuu]

Suuankou is too easy; and to poise yourself in the best position for it, yes, you will have to drop the aka 5-man.

Just like yours, here's a case of mine, which actually had iipeikou. Naturally, I declined it, until I produced ankou with one of the iipeikou parts.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016021914gm-0 ... &tw=3&ts=7

For your case, 5-pin, 6-sou, and 7-sou are all live. So, you have a fairly decent chance at drawing one of them yourself to put you into tenpai. Even if you ron someone with it, you still get mangan for it.

[or2az]

Suuankou is too easy
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016021914gm-0 ... &tw=3&ts=7

Well, it's not that easy, but that was a really great hand and those draws were quite favorable to you.
Early in the hand, you drew the , and discarded the as opposed to the .
Next turn, you drew the , and discarded the as opposed to the .
It didn't matter, since you got rid of all 3 anyway, but I am curious as to how you arrived at the order in which you discarded them.
Must have been nerve-wracking during those 5 turns after riichi.
Again, nice hand, I've only had one of those.
http://reachmahjong.com/en/forum/viewto ... kou#p56935

[Kyuu]

Well, it's not that easy, but that was a really great hand and those draws were quite favorable to you.
Early in the hand, you drew the , and discarded the as opposed to the .
Next turn, you drew the , and discarded the as opposed to the .
It didn't matter, since you got rid of all 3 anyway, but I am curious as to how you arrived at the order in which you discarded them.
Must have been nerve-wracking during those 5 turns after riichi.

Again, nice hand, I've only had one of those.
http://reachmahjong.com/en/forum/viewto ... kou#p56935

Looking back, I should have tsumogiri the 5-man, considering how I got rid of 6-man in favor of the 3-man to set up a possible iipeikou. Though, in essence, I was looking more towards chiitoitsu. Had I drawn 4-pin or 7-pin, then I shot myself in the foot. Now, when I produced 3-pin ankou, I've seen this before where a chiitoitsu attempt could possibly produce a suuankou. Or at the very least, toitoi sanankou. In fact, I had done the same exact thing in New York, months prior. When the 2-man became ankou, that's when I really had to choose which pair to split, and naturally ended up discarding the 9-pin in favor of both tanyao and quantity with one of them discarded by toimen.