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[Mahjong No.]

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Crying over 2016 stats edition

[Anonymous No.]

>>16339202
accurate depiction of a yakuman tsumo

[Anonymous No.]

>3:0

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2016123111gm-0089-0000-66d3c1bc&tw=0

Well done, toimen. I thought I had you,

[Anonymous No.]

>>16339202
>Crying over 2016 stats edition
Post your stats

http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=KyuuAA&r=8&d1=20160101&d2=20161231

This includes everything in Tenhou. 7447, L0, etc.

My highlights:
>5dan and tokujou for the first time
>7 yakuman on the year, including chuuren poutou
>7th +100 game
>7447 games with Tenhoui
>the PML tournament

All in all, it's been good year.

[Anonymous No.]

3:0

[Anonymous No.]

>>16339691

http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=TheWild7&r=8&d1=20160101&d2=20161231

Highlights? Getting into Mahjong seriously after years of tossing tiles around like a chump would be the biggest.

Hitting 3Dan
discovering the joy of playing on auto tables
meeting some pretty awesome PML folks that have made the game even better

(btw, norcal or socal? have we met?)

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>16339771
I was worried he'd look like 15 year old throughout the entire manga.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16339780
He still does

[Anonymous No.]

>>16339763
Actually, the real highlight for me was making an entire parlor erupt in cheer as I pulled off an ippatsu open riichi on a chitoitsu hand.

I might beat myself up for shit play, but on that day I was king of the world

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340040
Sounds like an awesome time. Honestly wish I could actually get some use out of my tiles, autotable or not, but unfortunately I don't know anyone who plays on my side of the country, and I haven't really been able to get any of my friends into Mahjong

Life sure is suffering

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340775
Which country?

[Anonymous No.]

anyone here in louisiana? i'm just starting and looking for a group to play with since there don't seem to be any parlors or anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340946
Unfortunately, the closest known group to you is over at Crestville, FL

[Anonymous No.]

>accidently discard the wrong tile, putting myself into furiten
>well this is embarassing, hopefully I don't draw my winning tile before I can change my wait
>tsumo next turn, almost consider not winning out of vanity
>have to wait the full 10 seconds on the win screen and I can tell everyone is wondering what the fuck is wrong with me

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340788
US, south florida

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340975
>>16340956

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340977
Unfortunately, it'd be like 16 hours round trip to go to Crestview and back. Maybe as one off thing it'd be fun

Are those guys even active? There's no contact information for them

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340998
I dunno, I live in Beijing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16341001
enjoying the new years airpocalypse?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16342138
>going outside on new years
See I'm smart, because I had buddies come over yesterday so we can play 'jong and ttrpg and vidya all day without bothering with the smog
>Christmas last week and New Year's this week
>200+ AQI
Xi you fucked up, again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16342421
>200
uhh

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340966
>Accidentally call furiten riichi
>Pray someone else wins so I don't have to show everyone how retarded I am

[Anonymous No.]

>>16340975
I live in Central FL. For me it would be 13 hour drive to Panhandle or Crestview.
Maybe if we find 2 other people we can work something out.

[Anonymous No.]

3:0 friends, who will join us?

will it be (you)?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16344346
If there are other Florida anons we could enlist, that'd be great

[Anonymous No.]

>mfw hitting fourth dan yesterday

Is this the black hole for suffering?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16345855
There are a couple stages of hell, but you just hit the worst one unless your R is high. Getting up to 1800 is miserable if you were sitting at 1700 and is just about impossible if you were around 1600.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16345893
I'm R1895, and I think I'll be okay. I was at 1900+ a few days ago, but the punishment for getting 3 straight 4th place pissed me off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16345996
Then you will be fine. There will be an adjustment period to playing tokujou level players but it's not hell the way the R climb is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16345996
Be careful and don't fuck up like I did. I was at R1960 and I managed to get kicked out of tokujou in two months. Still can't get back in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346063

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346075
It's okay, I'm still having fun.

[Anonymous No.]

What kind of resources or help would you guys want in order to improve at the game? Strategy articles, coaching, replay reviews, streams with commentary?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346374
Commentary would be good, also reviewing replays. It helps to see how good players think through games

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346374
Play defensively, all the time. When someone calls riichi, and you're 2-3 tiles away from tenpai, betaoiri immediately. Don't trust wind/dragon tiles and suji to discard. Also watch your replays.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346443
This is a great way to reduce your deal in rate, but virtually never win anything. I tried this style and my deal in rate went down .030 (.21 to .18), the problem was my win went down .045 (.260 to .215). I'm still trying to find a balance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346443
I wasn't asking for advice for myself, I was just wondering if there was demand for help that I could provide to others in a way that's more specialized than just general advice like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/a/151684917

[Anonymous No.]

Oh great NOW I hit my tsumos, against unranked players.

[Anonymous No.]

3:12

[Anonymous No.]

3:12

/a/ is sure showing up

[Anonymous No.]

Don't forget to say "rabbit rabbit" when you wake up for the new year for extra good luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346756
Too late, maybe next year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16342803
It was 200 in the morning, in my defense.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346756
I'll remember. I told my friend to remember too.

[Anonymous No.]

Ｆうｃｋ、I'm so fucking drunk, ha-fve mercy on me corak

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346828

[Anonymous No.]

I can't>>16346846
I waas peeing in abottle while youj won there

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346858
Well I thought I was going to win the first South 4, but then we hit a draw and it turns out all 3 of us were waiting on 3 sou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16346865
I only called extend my renchan by drawing, and ultimately win.
I should have called earlier that round and might have won but instead I went full retard.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh hod im's so stupid

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>nobody wants to enter the game for a while.
>suddenly want to shit really hard.
>the game fills up in no time.

[Anonymous No.]

>accidentally throw away sanshoku
>hope no one was watching

[Anonymous No.]

dat ippatu ctiitoitsu tho

[Anonymous No.]

Welp guess thats what happens when you try to go for memes like nagashi mangan.

[Anonymous No.]

UNIVERSE get back in here, I'm not done with you yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>Connection dies.
>Get literal perfect draws.

JUST

[Anonymous No.]

Despite the dropbot, this was nice

[Anonymous No.]

>>16347027
So much for the flow

[Anonymous No.]

>>16347154
Shouln't have called that and gone for suuakankou, the flow only rewards those that risk it all.

[Anonymous No.]

I've never thought of fighting zhein again, and he's always got the most bullshit hands as if he calls the RNG gods like his bitch.

[Anonymous No.]

>7447 is busy

Well, Happy New Year, you mahjong people you.

[Anonymous No.]

明けましておめでとう

[Anonymous No.]

>>16347508
Considering how the last week has fucked a full month's progress, 2017 can't come soon enough

[Anonymous No.]

>>16347508
>Day 1
>Already 46 different people played games (plus nonames) in 7447

[Anonymous No.]

Happy new year !

>3:4
Get in here.

[Anonymous No.]

1:0 :(

[Anonymous No.]

3.0

[Anonymous No.]

3:0

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017010205gm-0029-0000-64bdc730&tw=3

Oh, I'm loving 2017 already. Couldn't ask for a better first match of the year.

[Anonymous No.]

I think i'm too stupid to learn this game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16349912
What kind of idiot deals into such an obvious wait? It's not like he was in 4th either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16350229
Maybe he wanted to give him a yakuman as a new year gift ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16350247
Sure was nice of him to do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16350247
The kindest person in Tenhou.

[Anonymous No.]

>Osamuko is back

[Anonymous No.]

>>16350229
>5-dan
>dropping into that

He should've known better

[Anonymous No.]

>>16350781
Oh shit, it is. Did osamu un-ragequit from the internet or did someone just take the server from him?

[Anonymous No.]

If only I had a better uradora. Happy New Years.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351012
shouldn't it be sanankou?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351037
On a ron? No. If he had drawn it himself then yes that's a san an kou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351037
The 3rd triplet isn't self drawn. It would only work with tsumo here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351042
you are right, I'm retared

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351050
>retared

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351012
with a tsumo this was a sanbaiman

[Anonymous No.]

How do I git gud?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16352324
Learn tile efficiency and defense, then just keep playing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16351050

It's OK. Just don't ever be retarded enough to fall like the victim shown in this yakuman.
>>16350229

[Anonymous No.]

as a beginner, should i play east only games, or stick to longer ones?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16353204
The longer one. Tonpuusen is harder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16353204
It depends on your style really. Tonpusen is good if you can get a few cheap and fast hands, but hanchan is more forgiving of mistakes giving you time to recover.

I recommend playing nashi nashi (no red fives and no OEM tanyao) at first. It'll make you more conscious of tile efficientcy and less susceptible to bullshit 8 Dora open tanyao hands (the top two buttons)

[Anonymous No.]

>>16353706
>OEM tanyao
I guess we're corporate now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16353706
Kuitan nashi is a great place for people to figure out how to play (due to the lack of easy hands, meaning you actually have to learn and use your yaku), but it ends in having to readjust to normal games (kuitan/aka dora) once you get out of ippan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16353706
Seconding nashi nashi, that's where I learned to play. The other rooms had big numbers and I didn't know what they meant so I pick the one with the least numbers and started learning.

[Anonymous No.]

Barely escaped 4th place with a last turn chin itsu

[Anonymous No.]

Holy shit that was a stealthy kokushi.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>16355642
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017010309gm-0009-7447-e9340184&tw=3

Well that was neat, I was worried when there was such an early riichi.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16355655
Dude you had Daichisei tempai in your discards, what the shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16355760
After the riichi I had to choose what hand to go for. Should I chase the Shousuushii and possible Tsuuiisou (and it turns out back into a daichisei tenpai), or should I keep chasing the kokushi? I figured someone had the other 2 haku in their hand (because it's the dora), so that made the choice easy.

I don't think I've ever seen that many terminals and honors in one hand before though.

[Anonymous No.]

Where can I find a parlor in tokyo?

[Anonymous No.]

Justice exists.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16356072
I don't want any part of your justice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16355822
I couldnt give you specifics, but a lot of the osamuko clique have been to and played in Japanese parlors. As with everything Japan related, gaijin can expect greater scrutiny than your average Japanese person walking into a parlor, but there are plenty of parlors that will welcome you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16355822
There will be a real life event in Tokyo organised by Tenhou which will be advertised in English soon.

[Anonymous No.]

i dont get it, how do i know my id on tenhou?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16357390
What?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16357422
i want to buy premium, and it keeps asking for my id?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16356072
Now, that is some sweet justice.

[Anonymous No.]

Defend yourself

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
6m? It's obviously not safe at all but I can't think of anything better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
8m passed a few turns ago so maybe it'll be safe, then 9m. Then 7m and end it with 6m. Hopefully.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
Oh shit he's last dealer and only 8000 points behind. Moreover, we can't see ANY dora.
It would be nice if we could win a pinfu hand without riichi but we're still in iishanten and 556p can only produce a shuntsu with the last 7p.
I guess we should defend and the only safe tile against dealer is 6s but if kamicha has toitoi 3dora or toitoi honitsu (we can't see any ton.. wait there are still 2 unseen nan mmh) it's mangan at least.
Dealer doesn't look like he needs characters or bamboo since he threw that penchan 12m so early and tsumogiri'd the remaining.
I would discard 6m.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
6s, it's safe against the dealer riichi, and it's suji against the kamicha. Although the general lack of central souzu tiles in his discard pond is suspicious,at most he could have a honitsu toitoi with 1 red dora, or a toitoi dora 3 or 4 if he's also using the red 5p.

It's not safe againt the kamicha at all, though.

You can also see 3 of the 6m on the table, so there's relatively few chances of the toimen waiting on 7 or 8m, but it's not safe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
6s, it's safe against the dealer riichi, and it's suji against the kamicha. Although the general lack of central souzu tiles in his discard pond is suspicious,at most he could have a honitsu toitoi with 1 red dora, or a toitoi dora 3 or 4 if he's also using the red 5p.

It's not safe againt the shimocha at all, though.

You can also see 3 of the 6m on the table, so there's relatively few chances of the toimen waiting on 7 or 8m, but it's not safe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
So what was the answer ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16358203
6m looks like the obvious answer. It's suji trapped on one and completely safe from the dealer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16360318
>6m
I meant 6s

[Anonymous No.]

>>16360318
And it's precisely because it's obvious that it's the wrong answer here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16360776
Oh I agree, I'm expecting the thing to be a Shousuushii, but it's still the right play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16360807
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017010323gm-0029-0000-2ce4cac4&tw=1&ts=8

>two wind calls

So good eye on that.

And thus the answer:
>>16358243
>>16358257
>>16358300
>>16358340
>>16360044
>>16360318
>>16360326
>>16360776

[Anonymous No.]

>>16360776
Such line of thinking is faulty
>>16361117
Why didn't you discard 6s you fuck

[Anonymous No.]

>>16362816
To be honest you should expect a big comeback hand from the last player.
He needs a haneman tsumo to barely get 3rd or a baiman ron on the dealer in riichi. That's what he should be aiming for anyway so you must also defend against him imo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16363008
Well if he were going for toitoi he wouldn't discard three 1s out of his hand, would he? Yeah I know I only see it easily because it's a replay, but still

[Anonymous No.]

>>16363015
I'm trying to think about a hand that can make a baiman with these 2 calls but yeah discarding these 1s means he threw his possible toitoi honitsu honroutou haneman for an even bigger hand.
And only shousuushii comes to mind when you see the missing east winds. Or a toitoi pinzu honitsu 3dora akadora tanki when you see the missing 3p dora, at this point it's less likely than the yakuman.
Well, it's easier to see on a picture. I wouldn't think about it in a match maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16363051
>I wouldn't think about it in a match maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>be a newfag who learned what suji is two weeks ago
>sudden winning streak
>hit R1700
>then finish last or 3rd in every subsequent game and fall down to 1520
>lose 4 times to oikake riichi in the last game
and I had better waits every single time. Is this what mahjong feels like?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16365201
I had a streak at one point where I didn't win on 37 consecutive riichi, and all of them were good waits (6 of which were 3 way waits).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16365201
R doesn't mean much in your first four hundred games, don't worry about it.

[Anonymous No.]

2:0

[Anonymous No.]

>>16365879
3:0

[Anonymous No.]

Sequel to the dynaman book when?

[NoName No.]

rip UNIVERSE. Anybody want to still play?

[Anonymous No.]

>MUST PRESS FREE SEX BUTTON
Glad I held off, at least I kept second.

[NoName No.]

>>16366149
with an 1-shanten like that, probably better to sakigiri the dora since your goal should be to defend your second place imo

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366160
Well the thing here is unless I ippatsumo, the riichi doesn't do me any good. As you can see I was going for a chin itsu, but at some point you have to know dealing the dora into a riichi can't end well.

[NoName No.]

>>16366164
I meant that dropping the dora earlier into the hand would probably have been the stronger play. sakigiri is earlier discard than normal of dangerous tiles before they become another player's winning tiles. your hand is a hand that you would be happy to fold to defend, but it also has high potential so keeping an explicitly dangerous tile around for longer has much higher risk than reward and would've led to the chance of maintaining tenpai, grabbing iipeikou, or transitioning to a chitoi while discarding safer tiles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366176
I went back and looked at it, and I basically got surprised by the 3rd turn riichi. Since I already had 2 dora in my hand, if I could get a tsumo tanyao I take first. Then those 9 sou kept coming and I ended up where I was.

If I were to dump the 6 pin that early I'm completely abandoning any chance at 1st, and barring a complete collapse I'm not falling to 4th.

Mostly though I just ran out of safe discards. Until I got to that point the only dangerous tile I had dealt was the 3 man, and even that was half-suji.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366135
Well, I've been thoroughly bullied. Guess it's time to stop playing and instead time to regret ever queuing up.

[Anonymous No.]

>e1: kamicha gets a dealer haneman tsumo
Fucking typical, here comes the retarded "fight for first loser" dance
>E1-2: the retard is clearly me, discard the wrong pair, get into furiten and still hit the free sex button, deal into mangan
Fuck, why do I even bother with this shit? I'm clearly too much of an idiot to get good
>E3: become a mahjong virtuoso, put together a ryanpeikoi honitsu tsumo with enough Dora to create a fucking dealer kazoe yakuman

[Anonymous No.]

>5 days into the New Year
>already 80 unique names in 7447

Damn, you people fuck like rabbits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366545
see

>>16346508
>>16347636
We played with /a/ as the clock hit midnight most of the Americas. It was 50 players by the time the 1st day ended.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366558
>midnight
midnight in

[Anonymous No.]

>2017
>yfw /jp/ doesnt 3P anymore

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366532
>free sex button
I assume this is riichi?

Is it based on some weird moonrune reading or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366629
It's based on the allure of declaring riichi even when you know you should stay dama or betaori

Someone post that comic

[Anonymous No.]

This hand was so good it crashed my computer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366564
>3P

That is for inferior players. So git gud.

[Anonymous No.]

>What is defense
Feels good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366564

[Anonymous No.]

>>16366629
>>16366704

[Anonymous No.]

Awful beginner question, but is there any reason why I couldn't riichi with this in nashi?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16370395
You need to deposit 1000 points to call riichi, you only have 700. It'd put you in the negatives, so it doesn't allow it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16370399
Ah whoops, forgot about that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16370402
Not as bad a question as you might think, it's an obvious oversight that players forget simply because you don't run into it all that often.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16370422
I know I was looking at that image trying to find out what's wrong!

[Anonymous No.]

Someone teach this person. He needs some education.

[Anonymous No.]

Happy New Year.

My first game in Tenhou for the year.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017010621gm-0029-0000-a561e9a1&tw=0

Short story. I was indeed feeling a bit of rust, dropping into 7700 and 12000 hands.

Dat S4. Tense as fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16367579

>I played 3P once and got wrecked

[Anonymous No.]

>playing a game with my family
>Get a tsumo dealer baiman
>Next round
>Get a ron dealer sanbaiman one han away from kazoe yakuman
The flow is real guys

[Anonymous No.]

>>16372796
Is there a god of Mahjong I can make an offering to?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16372946
Yes.

[Anonymous No.]

I just passed up a ron that would have ended the game with me in a comfortable second place so that I could have a go at somehow getting the 30,000 points I needed to get into first. It was such a fun game that I didn't want it to end. Is this what playing true mahjong feels like?

I ended up getting booted down to third by the end of the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16373732
>Is this what playing true mahjong feels like?
I've heard some theories that tanoshii is indeed the essence of mahjong, but from my experience it's rather an endless cycle of masochism and power trips

[Anonymous No.]

anybody at MAGFest?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16373848

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>16374915
You pretty much know you're fucked when your hand is that open, but jesus.

High pucker factor.

[Anonymous No.]

Tenhou says I won the game but inside my heart I'm the one who lost.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16375024
>Ovest 2 with a yakuman tenpai

[Anonymous No.]

>>16375024
if you were a real man you'd have passed on the win and kept going

[Anonymous No.]

>>16375024
Meh, take your shousangen and like it.

[Anonymous No.]

Since we're posting yakuman...

[Anonymous No.]

>>16375760
>8700 in East 2

Well, the mahjong gods must've felt pity and granted you this miracle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16375760
Man why isn't Daisharin a thing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16372197
>Kamicha's 6th discard onwards

[Anonymous No.]

>>16372197
>kamicha's last eleven discards

[Anonymous No.]

Describe what happened here.

This guy is an asshole.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376206
Do you reckon he was going absolute betaori or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376327
He might have been but why not deal the two ton that he had? Wouldn't they have been safer than almost all of those 11 tiles?

[Anonymous No.]

Mahjong players are ugly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376366
Guy on the left a cute.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376341
>>16376206

He was maybe disconnected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376366
Is he giving advices to the guys ? That's nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376480
Most of those pinzu were in his start hand. So, he was going betaori.

Given the scores, why not? Not even mangan tsumo passes him up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376569
Oh yeah, plus the tile isn't dark so it's not tsumogiri anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376258
Did he pass on a yakuman tsumo just to call furiten riichi riichi?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376258
Is this for real ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376258
You know, I guess it makes sense because Junsei Chuuren Poutou is a tenpai with an utterly ridiculous wait, but holy fucking shit lad

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376607
He already had Chuuren Poutou tsumo, no? Plus, if I remember correctly, Tenhou doesn't award double yakuman for a 9-way Chuuren wait. I guess he didn't know that, but even so, looking at the scores, I don't see a good reason to pass up a single yakuman and aim for double.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16376642
He must've I guess but he did it just for kicks
The Junsei version is almost guarenteed a tsumo within 3-4 turns after all

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_9I3MBqmM thread theme

[Anonymous No.]

>>16378678
This video is not available in your country.

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017010516gm-0089-0000-b5b08b68&tw=2&ts=4

Why was this allowed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380370
Not much you can do about it. It seems he was just going for toitoi. He played most of the rest of the game pretty poorly.

Calling that open kan was questionable, but as dealer I there is at least some upside.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380370
I'm not sure about this play though. If you stay in damaten and draw the 3 pin you now add chanta sanshoku to the hand. Since you already dealt into yakuman you needed the points.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380370
It is not a question of can I, but of who will stop me.
RIP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380568
That hand also improves with a 2 pin for San An Kou.

[Anonymous No.]

WWYD?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380890
Firstly, I would change my background image to something better, then I would discard the 1s

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380890
Break up either the 3m or 7m pairs to go 1-shanten. If convenient, the way for chinitsu is also paved. Problem with this approach is the need for multiple 6s and 9s.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16380890
Discard the 5s because it leaves the most tiles that can get you to tenpai I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16381022
This. Breaking the 5s pair allows you to keep a ryanmen while if you break up the manzu pairs you're stuck with shanpon waits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16381022
Yup, anything else is greed with too much risk.

[Anonymous No.]

My mom plays American style mahjongg and wants her very own set. What set do I buy her /jp/? It's hard to pick out a set online, and none of the stores here have open sets where I can feel the tiles and stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383034
Why is it called American mahjong when it's primarily played by Israelites?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383034
Apparently you need to find a set with both flowers, seasons and one with 8 Joker tiles. So a normal set, minus the akadora and with all that shit. Good luck. Maybe get one with aka as well and teach her riichi

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383056
My mom isn't even Jewish my man
>>16383168
What does that mean my man? I don't play mahjong. Can you link me to a set I should buy?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383168
I don't even think I've ever seen a Mahjong set that includes both American style tiles + akadora.

>>16383205
Amazon has a lot of American sets, any one with 166 tiles should fit the bill and be entirely usable with American mahjong rules.

In general, the make of most Mahjong sets are going to be similar quality-wise unless you're planning on buying either extremely expensive or extremely cheap tiles, so your main concern is probably going to be the color and style of the tiles. I'd recommend consulting your mother if it's not a surprise gift so you can get what she would want.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383251
>In general, the make of most Mahjong sets are going to be similar quality-wise

I'll just ask her to pick one out then.

Thanks pal!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383288
Another anon here, be careful not to buy a mini-mahjong set unless that's what you want.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383205
Oh thought you played mahjong. Was gonna link you to a set, but it keeps saying my post is spam.

[Anonymous No.]

>Start off 1+1+0+0
Well this isn't so bad
>Now it's 1+1+0+3
Well guess I'm about to downrank.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383369
Have a cup of tea, calm down and focus. You'll do fine.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>16383962

[Anonymous No.]

>>16384099
I forgot the once a day cooldown or I would've had another.

[Anonymous No.]

Is this game supposed to be extremely stressful?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16384590
Yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16384590
Yes because so much of it is out of your control.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16384590
What are you saying it's tanoshii

[Anonymous No.]

>>16384278
Shiet nigga. That's a dama hand.

[Anonymous No.]

>load up main account and hit Ari Ari hanchan button.
>Realise after match begins that I absentmindedly hit the ippan lobby
>These low-ranks are one lucky punch away from destroying my R

[Anonymous No.]

>>16385145
You will never beat beginner's luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>mfw, losing into six 4ths in a row

Why must this game be so cruel?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16386242
>mfw iishanten hell for a shitty tanyao / pinfu / iipeiko or deadend tenpai

[Anonymous No.]

>>16385145
Beginner's Luck too strong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16385177
>>16386593
Thankfully I managed to get 1st

[Anonymous No.]

1:0

[Anonymous No.]

>five 1位s in a row

[Anonymous No.]

>>16388321
Don't worry, you're going to pay for those soon enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16385033
Well it's in south 4, any other situation and I agree. Without a direct hit the baiman does nothing. If I can tsumo (or hit an ura dora) that's a sanbaiman at minimum, and the sex button will cause people to give me more draws. I also know that the dealer is in panic mode because of the score difference and is fairly likely to end up discarding around that range since he dumped the 2 sou so early. He eventually ended up with the same wait I did with a suji trap.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16388334
Just got my sixth.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16388664
Must feel awful, knowing that doom is lurking just around the corner, coming to get you. It could be your very next game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16388664
I too was once like you... Now I struggle with kusoge and the spirits of busted past

[Anonymous No.]

>>16388848
>>16389015
I thought the inevitable doom was already out for me when I dealt into a bullshit dealer mangan in east 1 of my next game, but managed to place 2nd in the end. Oh well, it was a good run. Now it's time to accept whatever punishment the mahjong gods have in store for me.

[Anonymous No.]

I want to play.

Please come to 7447.


Yours truly,
3:0

[Anonymous No.]

>>16389118
I need to downrank first. I've been 1 off for the last 3 games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16389200
Good luck!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16389213
Wow, did everything I could and it just didn't matter, I knew I was probably screwed when this happened.

Even managed to steal 3rd on West 1 only for 4th place to tsumo a dealer mangan the next hand.

Been as high as 6 dan and I've come crashing down to 4 dan. I'll probably fall out of Tokujou soon enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16389213
Wow, did everything I could and it just didn't matter.

Even managed to steal 3rd on West 1 only for 4th place to tsumo a dealer mangan the next hand.

Been as high as 6 dan and I've come crashing down to 4 dan. I'll probably fall out of Tokujou soon enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16389418
It's alright, I've been there too. Went from 6d to within one game of demotion to 3d. I climbed my way back up without dropping out of tokujou. If you have the skill, you'll get back eventually.

[Anonymous No.]

1:4

The night is young, come play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16389677
Where did all the lesbians go?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16390384
They left after four hours of no tanoshii

[Anonymous No.]

I've been having some good times myself. ironically, my losses have been somewhat to my advantage keeping me in 3dan with small loss of R. I'm able to boost up my R prior to entering 4dan hell.

We'll all make it to Tokujo, bros.

[Anonymous No.]

>3rd place in orasu
>start with sweet nishanten comeback hand
>last place instantly pons the dragons and wins for 1han staying 4th
way to ruin my tanoshii, faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>16392959
These types of wins are the hallmark of bad players.
Actually giving up and letting 3rd place get ron'd by someone else, pushing them down past you, is a better strategy.

Literaly doing nothing in the flimsy hope that another player will save you from 4th is a better way to play than winning with a cheap hand in orasu. Let that sink in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16392990
It's worse than being a bad player, it's being a stupid person with no common sense.
I'm sure I never made that mistake, not even when I was a beginner at 1300R

[Anonymous No.]

>>16392959
>nishanten
It's ryanshanten, my man.

>>16392990
>>16393020
Some people are mentally deficient and can't think situationally. Even in tokujou I've seen people behind 20k points go for cheap 1000 point hands in S3, and without S4 being their dealer round. If you're in last you need to buy as much time to catch up as possible. You should NEVER go into oorasu in last place. Needless to say he probably didn't stay in tokujou for too long.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16392771
>We'll all make it to Tokujo, bros.
Fuck you too, I just fell out of Tokujou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16393313
So you'd already made it. Just dust yourself off and walk back in.

[Anonymous No.]

Where's my yakuman, oh great it's in my discards.

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011107gm-0059-0000-dd13eef4&tw=1&ts=7

I played poorly and won anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16394187
Wow, I didn't know that you could chankan a pei dora in sanma.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16393499
Oh damn that feels bad.

I'm also still sad about this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16394384

It's not chankan, but yes, you can ron off it in the superior mode.

[Anonymous No.]

>Accidentally discard the wrong tile
>Right after that, someone discards the tile I was going to
>Gets ronned

[Anonymous No.]

>>16393499
If it makes you feel better, you wouldn't have tsumo'd that hand anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

While on the topic of win/pass: would you rather Ron a player in the last round for a guaranteed 2nd place, or attempt the uncertain option of trying to snipe the lead player to take 1st?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16395905
>or attempt the uncertain option of trying to snipe the lead player to take 1st?

Depends on pools obviously, but this option.

He who hesitates is lost.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16395989
An example

>playing mahjonng with family
>first place is in riichi
>sitting in tenpai
>pass over 7s, first to be discarded this hand
>goes around
>first throws 7s
>stare him in the eyes
>ron
>dealer mangan for the win
>walk away with 20 bucks and the taste of glorious victory

It isn't always worth it, but when it works out it's the best feeling in the world.

[Anonymous No.]

What's best way to simulate a mahjong round with provided information like hand and discard condition?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16396067
http://tenhou.net/6/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16395905
Depends on if there's any chance of becoming last. If there's a real risk of ending last, I'd choose the guaranteed 2nd place. If there isn't, I'd shoot for 1st.
Basically, last place avoidance > getting first > getting second. Second is basically a consolation price.

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011121gm-00a9-0000-e492d26b&tw=1&ts=0

>score yakuman
>not win game

Well, sucks for this guy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16396978
He was still +12 though, so it's not too bad

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a way to see your monthly +/- score in 0?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16397374
I don't think so, but you can easily calculate it, if you're talking about the placement points.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16397482
Yeah, end game score.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16397488
Just multiply the number of placements by the points you get for each one. You can ignore 3rd place since it's always +0.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16397374
The 得点 row. From left to right, the columns are total, total rank, average, average rank.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16397482
>+134
Oh boy, can't wait to lose the next 3 matches. At least I'm not yet at the point where I need to worry about my R or rank.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16397374
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/

Limit your search to L0 and the start / end dates.

[Anonymous No.]

1:0 again

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399001
2.0

[Anonymous No.]

What would you discard? You should be able to solve this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399507
Clearly the haku is the best way to go.

Or, you know, the 7s you have 3 of and that just passed against everyone, but most importantly, against the potential yakuman.

The toimen pays half on a tsumo, so at least you'd only end 3rd.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399507
5s

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399507
7s

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399507
white tile, his pool is too normal to be waiting on that

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399521
>>16399525
>>16399622
Joke's on you, C-kun was miles away from tenpai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399700
He had at least a haneman, at most a yakuman. I stand by my choice of not even taking your chances.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399708
You're 100% correct, considering C got into tenpai one turn after. D was extremely lucky he didn't end up in last.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399521
>The toimen pays half on a tsumo
That's only if he lets him pon the third set.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399826
Right, I forgot that he can't tsumo a daisangen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399700
He had zero honors in her s discards and two dragons. Having recently dished out a tsuiisou to someone who made that same math, I'd rather duck this one out and 7s

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399507
2s

[Anonymous No.]

http://ara.moo.jp/mjhmr/
Pretty straightforward. Get starting hand, discard until tenpai. Guess which discard is the best then click that 何切る button to check if your decision is correct. Alternatively, choose 3 from dropdown on top right then analyze yourself why the choice with black star is the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>Winning by 20000
>S4 comes around
>drawn out
>drawn out
>drawn out
>drawn out
>drawn out

Hell is real. I'm just I never got got, so there was no chance hell of a West

[Anonymous No.]

I finally got out of my sub-1500 hell by deciding not to be retarded. How high does your rank have to be before it shows up in games?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399507
How do you make the names A, B and C? Is that a client only thing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401238
It's a replay, they do that automatically.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401220
1800

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401256
Really? When I look at my replays it keeps the names. Or are replays a different thing than the fourth tab?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401287
They show the names for you but other people see them as A, B and C. I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401285
I have a long way to go then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16399700
Hindsight is 20/20
I still stand by discarding the 5s, it keeps you ryanshanten and doesn't risk dealing into yakuman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401163
>I'm just I never got got
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401599
I dropped a word. Add "glad" after just

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401309
We all do my friend. One day we'll all make it to Tokujo and play in the big leagues.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401238
I don't know about the Flash or HTML5 clients, but the Windows client can toggle names with this.

[Anonymous No.]

What time do tokujou players here play in ranked? I never see anyone from the jay there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16402211
There aren't that many from here in Tokujou, really. I just play whenever, except late at night when I'm tired and I know I will fuck up and take a loss. UTC-3, by the way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16402231
Then we only have a 2 hour difference. Maybe we'll see each other sometime.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16402211
i play on random days and hours. although, you are very likely to see me on wed/fri evenings PST. i am playing other games atm so can't be on everyday.

almost ranking back up to 5 dan. looking at my stats, i am climbing with a 21.5% 1st, and 25.5% 4th. im at 393 games since being 4 dan.

[Anonymous No.]

>S4
>2nd place
>3rd place calls riichi
>4th place goes full retard and deals into an ippatsu
>Because of the ippatsu, and only because of it, I get knocked down to 3rd place

You fucking asshole, you weren't even in tenpai and you had safer tiles to deal. I hate you so fucking much.

[Anonymous No.]

Tenhou's unicode isn't working on my computer

Is there something I can do to fix this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16401301
This is correct, but you can turn off names yourself in replays as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>R2105
>Deals in 4 times

[Anonymous No.]

>>16403773
>Ippan tales

[Anonymous No.]

>>16404433
That happened in Tokujou, actually.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16404007
Change locale.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16404449
I believe you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16404518
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011307gm-0029-0000-5975edb6&tw=1&ts=14

Here's the replay. D-san is 1975R, to boot. In his defense, it was against a shanpon wait.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16404536
If you are in 4th on South 4, defense is usually pointless. If you are dealer on South 4 and in 4th, there is almost never a reason to play defense.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16404641
True, but his 3s discard was a wild guess. He also had a 6p which he would need to get rid of eventually. Generally a 3 will be safer than a 6, but if you're taking a wild guess against a 9p riichi, I would have probably gone with the 6p.

I know this is all hindsight, but I was pretty frustrated at the moment.

[Anonymous No.]

Are you not tanoshii'd?

[Anonymous No.]

>He even hit the ura dora
That is not ok. Tokujou players shouldn't be hitting the sex button with nothing against a possible yakuman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16405620
No guts. No glory

[Anonymous No.]

Check out these repeating digits.

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011403gm-0029-0000-2b1aab7a&tw=2

More Tokujou embarrassment. A-san (1962R) disconnecting after not getting a riichi In S4.

[Anonymous No.]

Disregarding the final result ippatsumo pinfu, would discarding 8m be better than 7p/9p? I thought keeping 8m in case of ittsu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408699
It's still early in the round and relatively early in the game so in this case I think it's fine either way.
In this case I'd discard 9p before 7p though, because keeping the 7p for longer makes it more likely to pair it and still allows for tanyao if you'd want that (probably not in this case because 1m is the dora, but hey)

[Anonymous No.]

Am I stupid? What was I supposed to do. Eating that dealer haneman cost me the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408831
Sometimes there's just nothing you can do. You had no safe tiles

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408831
I always avoid cutting 3s and 7s unless there's compelling indications that they are safer than 2,1,8,9s. I have no specific reasons to give you aside from my dealing into way too many penchan and kanchan waits around 3/7

[Anonymous No.]

You ever wonder if somewhere in japan there's a dude you ron'd into oblivion that got so mad he broke shit or took it out on his family?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408996
It's what keeps me going.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408831
No safe tile but maybe I would avoid the dora suit.
Discard pin and man tiles, maybe 7p because it's shompai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16409636
I meant 7pp isn't a shonpai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408699
There are three 9m out, so your chances of ittsuu are tiny. Given how early it is you're better off going for a fast tenpai and declaring riichi (on 8p or 3s kanchan if need be) before anyone else.

>>16408831
You were pretty screwed here but 3m would be slightly better, as it's suji for the 6m that passed immediately before his riichi.

[Anonymous No.]

1:0

[NoName No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011413gm-0009-7447-5a3f58ac&tw=2

S4 of this replay: How much of an asshole am I?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16410787

[Anonymous No.]

>>16410787
>That trigger dicsipline

Good job, I probably would have riichi'd and hoped for an ura

[Anonymous No.]

>>16410787
Nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16410787
A bit, since two 2p had just passed, as had the 5p. I'd say that was well played though, so not too assholeish. Very very close though, I'd have to say you're lucky someone called riichi.
A really shouldn't have called riichi, because it looks to me like that's all he has, which wouldn't have gotten him a to 3rd even with a direct hit on 3rd.

[Anonymous No.]

>2:0

[Anonymous No.]

>>16408699
Like the other guy said, three 9m are already out.
Even if I was sure to get the last 9m I would take the fastest hand here.
Riichi + Pinfu or Iipeikou + 2 Dora is Mangan, I think it's enough at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16410787
>that yamagoshi
Nice play.

[Anonymous No.]

Playing with the high ranked members in 7447 was a good reminder that I have much to learn.

That said, throwing tiles in wild abbadon with nothing to lose was fun in and of itself.