/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19507907
E1: That's a guess and a safe one to make as you can't read enough from his pond to determine that. You will eventually get punished for it, if not by that player then by someone else in dama. A late live dora discard like that is just asking for pain.
E2: It's not so much that pei is a good choice, but that 6p get way more dangerous the longer the hand gets. Toss the most dangerous stuff that doesn't fit first.
E2-1: With 2 dora and a bunch of good shapes that has plenty of potential for a normal riichi and maybe pin fu. If you have a reason to switch to something else you can take it but you should almost always default toward pushing to tenpai. If you look at the hands with any of the discards I mentioned you should be able to guess how they are expected to develop.
E3: Same thing. This is a massive efficiency loss. You might be able to back into something but a floating 3-7 is almost always superior to an isolated 1 or 9.

Riichi and pin fu are the basis of consistent play. If you have some dora you should generally push for more speed but there are two big problems with opening your hand: things are worth less and you lose 3 tiles from your defense every time you call. When people are just throwing anything you can get away with it but against competent players you will usually have to build hands yourself and adjust based on what others are doing.

Your yaku judgement ended up working most of the time in this game but I can't tell from one game if your judgement on going for things like junchan/chanta is correct. These two were certainly arguable based on your hands, but most low to mid Joukyuu players like those yaku far too much and don't prioritize the ones that really build your fundamentals correctly.

>>17260976
You will hear it again