/jp/ - Otaku Culture

need 1 more for 3p

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>1st AoA +1666

http://ponpalace.com/leaderboard.php?type=3

what

>>4759519
>3p

>>4760265
Alright then, who's up for a straight long nashi.

>>4760299

>long
>nashi

You're joking, right guys? Right?

>>4760633

I actually enjoy working a bit more to get my hand together thank you.

>>4760866

How is taking forever and playing like a shitty European player "working a bit more"? Are you that bad at defending against tanyao?

Lucky guy is lucky.
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2010033010gm-0009-0000-x192d4ff4dd7d&tw=3

Repostin because I can. Playing with real tiles is pretty awesome, setting up between games isn't nearly as much a hassle as I thought'd it be, and I'm just using a pen and paper to do points instead of sticks, it seems easier.
Still need to find 1 person, 4p with 3p is still very fun, but could be better.

The first time I riichi'd, the first time I ever riichi'd while playing with real tiles that is, I got an ippatsu tsumo, I heard that was extremely rare, even though it happens on tenhou quite a bit. Feels good man.

>>4763425
Maybe you should've used the money to buy a better camera.

>>4763466
that was uncalled for

>>4761020
Girl you mean. But there are supposedly no girls on the internet. And I would have never thought to go for kokushi-musou to win it.

bump

age

>>4763425
You're lucky to have people to play with in real life. I know for a fact that no people I know beside me even knows what mahjang is.

>>4764307

I hear you. Though I guess I know some fags who only know about mahjan from Saki. And I do mean the know. Because the only thing they know now that they didn't before is that mahjan isn't only played as that solitaire shit,

>>4764307

Put up some ads and shit. I managed to find about 30 people who can play or are interested in learning how to play.

Leaving, but want this up when I get back tonight, so bump.

I only get to play mahjong in real life with my family, though they only play the european classical rules.

Bump for last player for 3p.

What the hell is wrong with you?
"Oh, there's a daisangen tenpai, let's declare riichi!"

>>4759912
It was the same when I was at 666.

Someone else join, so that I can play my daily Mahjong and go back to Eien no Aselia.

OK...

>>4765882
That game played too much with my nerves.

Also, take a look at this, Hathair:

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/bamboo/bamboo.html

>>4766011
what's the point of bamboo? Never figured it out, just keep getting game over.

>>4766204
The game doesn't help you.
You can press riichi, ron, tsumo whenever you like.
If you do, but your hand isn't ready, you must pay chombo.
Normally, it's a mangan. In this game it's a yakuman.

>>4766221
oh I see, I thought it was like tenhou where you could trust the buttons

>>4766444
>trust the buttons

Sounds like something Norwayfag would say.

>>4766738
ey fuck you how did you know? I didn't realise until now that I didn't have my tripcode on

>>4766765
Haha.
>>4763466
It is just my shitty old phone camera...I'll get something better someday.

>>4766011
That was pretty hard

I still like the yaku quiz better
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/scorequiz/yaku.html
good for remembering names

>>4767009
tenhou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou chihou tenhou tenhou chihou tenhou

>>4767070
I got a rinshan once, kan'd the 5 sou and got the tile I needed.

So there.

>yaku quiz

>>4767229
The best way to demoralize your opponent is to open riichi your double yakuman. They will never see it comming.

>>4767254
I say this needs a redesign.
If the hand is OPEN, it can't be ankou anything. OPEN riichi is just a name.

>>4767254

Enjoy getting cockblocked by CHOMBOW

Hey guys, come play with me!
I haven't played in a while so I may be a bit rusty.

>>4766907
Dude I'm serious, are you spying on me or something?

>>4767948
Hey Norskfag, come play with me, it's getting lonely in 7447.

>>4768012
har slikt å gjøre, har slikt å føre, så da fører jeg vel det og

>>4768012
>>4768032
Hvor mange nordmenn er det på /jp/?

oh well, I guess one can only have so much magic sand.

>>4768060
Oh I'm not a nordman.

>>4768280
Why did you win that last hand?
Wouldn't it be smarter to stay in tenpai until you can make a comeback with a yakuman? You couldn't have won even with uradora.

>>4768032
>>4768060
I was the only Norwegian here when /jp/ was created.
Tremble before me, younglings!

>>4768310
meh, I was looking to finish as fast as possible so I could do something wicked to a certain someone.
>>4768562
have fun being old then. Old man.

I just made a quick google search and was surprised to find a mahjong club in my city. Should I go? Does anyone have any experience with moving from computer mahjong to real tiles? For example, I'm worried about not knowing when I'm in tenpai (mostly for chinitsu and similar stuff). Or sometimes I don't notice a possible wait.

>>4769044
Are you dumb or blind? Because if you're neither, I don't understand how you can "not know when you're in tenpai". You should worry more about not knowing how to read a poker face, or about showing signs of nervousness when you're in tenpai for something big.

>>4769044

If it's a riichi mahjong club, the hardest part will be dealing with sitting at a table with a bunch of weeaboos for an extended period of time. But seriously, knowing your waits shouldn't really be a big deal as long as you're not a total beginner. Practice at bamboo mahjong if you're not confident. The biggest problem with playing in real life is that no one knows how to score hands. It gets to be a pain when someone turns their hand over for a ron and then just stares at everyone expecting to get points without saying how much it's worth.

>It gets to be a pain when someone turns their hand over for a ron and then just stares at everyone expecting to get points without saying how much it's worth.

This. A million times this. But if you're the only one there who knows how to score well, then its kinda like being the banker in monopoly.

1 han: 1500(dealer)/1000(others)
2 han: 3000/2000
3 han: 6000/4000
4 han: 12000/8000

You can play with this if you don't know how to score.

>>4769044
Odds are that if there's a random mahjong club it's a bunch of chinese dudes who have no idea that there are other variants that exist. But you might have fun, or they might have some interest in riichi mahjong.

>>4769143
Have you never gotten a hand full of tiles of the same suit? Of course if I take some time I can see that I'm in tenpai. But I don't want to stare at my hand for 30 seconds to figure out all of the waits, you know? I've started playing bamboo mahjong though, hopefully that will help.

>>4769166
It's a riichi mahjong club. The closest thing to weeaboo on their website is "Many of us have a higher than normal interest in Asia". They seem to take the game seriously, I'm sure they know how to count points.

>>4769324

>I'm sure they know how to count points.

You should still learn. Print up a score chart and keep it in your pocket if you can't memorize it right away, but at least know how to do han and fu. I play with a guy who always tries to cheat people out of points by underscoring their hands and overscoring his own.

>>4769324
Do you live in a fairly big city? How did you find about the place? I would like to search around here too, although I live in a tiny place.

>>4770322
Googled "Mahjong (city name)". I think I got lucky.

>>4770513
You did. I tried that before. Even bigger cities that surrounded me, no luck.

You can make your own club like Hisa.

>>4772903
Hisa is in highschool though. In japan. Where playing japanese mahjong is normal.

You know how tough it is to find people to play "That complicated foreign game that I thought was solitaire" Even in a big university.
It's hard.

First time I ever saw a draw in bamboo

age

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7447 Ranking in March: 3P
1st AoA +1702
2nd Zagato +938
3rd Sami +618
4th SATEN +545
5th beato +542
6th Durr +415
7th SANZENIN +413
8th Gambler0 +380
9th VgameT +336
10th desmond2 +306

7447 Ranking in March: 4P
1st bzzzra +686
2nd fapper +521
3rd Zagato +494
4th SATEN +440
5th KoG55 +333
6th ('___'X) +327
7th UN.Owen +316
8th desmond2 +294
9th Sami +234
10th Niseアカギ +216

HAHAHA NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT RANK. CONSIDERING 90% OF THE PLAYERS ARE SHIT ESPECIALLY NORWAYFAG.

COME PLAY INTO THE 0 LOBBY. FLASH PREMIUM FREE TO USE IN THE OPEN LOBBY. WE SHOULD ARRANGE SOME WAY TO PLAY IN THE DAN ROOM TO GENERATE MORE INTEREST.

Guess who's back motherfuckers

>>4775002
We can play in ari red east round or ari red fast east+south. But even then it would require some coordination for 4 players to click at the same time.

This guy is really lucky.
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2010032905gm-00c1-0000-0ad2615d&tw=0&ts=0

>>4775145
Just make a championship lobby that allows only shodan and higher

>>4775197
That lobby would have no games.

bump

>>4776139
Haha, he forgot his iipeikou.

>>4776179

Minimum points is the only option besides dora bombing. So it has to be just tanyao

>>4776259
That flowchart. Oh, gods. Why can't I stop laughing?

>>4775002
Dude, rage much? Smoke moar, chill out

>>4776436
My only complaint is that the Daisangen part should be changed to "Are the stars right? "

I wanna feel better about myself, could someone come play?

I'll play 4p.

One more player for a fast-paced four player game with red fives.

If we don't get a fourth in the next minute I'll just queue for 3p fast.

bump

Second game in a row where someone got a counted yakuman. Guess that's a sign to quit for the night.

>>4779824
Or a sign to stop playing 3p.

>>4776179
>>4776259
That's a Suu An Kou. The Tanyao part is just a joke.

Anyone interested? Sitting and waiting.

Get this fucking awesome tenpai pretty early into the game. Even If i don't get a yakuman, dora 3 san anko toitoi? Fuck yes...But what happens, It goes to almost the end of the game and I deal into a tanyao.
Mahjong is hate.

Oh it wasn't a tanyao, whatever, was still cheap hand, he didn't dora bomb.
My good mood is gone now.

>>4759499
is the OP's image from an anime? if so, i would like to request the source

>>4781212
Saki

If you're in furiten on one tile, can you still ron on the other tile of a side wait?

>>4781258
No. furiten = tsumo only

>>4781258
no

>>4776139
toitoi

>>4781456
>>4776139
do people really do the outstretched hand thing?

Well atleast I wasn't this guy. My mood is slightly better now.

>>4781460
I don't see why not. Exaggerated motions are fun.

bump

1 more 3P, 2 more 4 P

I think there's something wrong with my brain, I made two furiten riichis without realizing it.

>>4782350
I think I'm a little worn out myself, I would usually not fuck up a 25,000+ lead even in 3P

>>4782350
I think your brain is broken.

1:0 on nashi / ari red

Any bros up for a game?

Is there a way to delete your ID from Tenhou?

Let's play without open tanyao for once.

>>4783076

I always go for nashi as well when waiting for players. Though it's usually useless since the other one I'm waiting for, usually ari red, gets players faster.

That was bullshit man, fuck.

>>4783212
I lol'd. -1000, -24000 + riichi, you are a dead parrot.

Magic sand bro, magic sand. It must've been piling up since I haven't played in a while :3

Rematch?

>>4783235
It was too late in the game, shouldn't have declared that riichi as it was an obvious hon-itsu with the dora.
>>4783240
Of course

>>4783212

no you just suck.

1 more for nashi.

>>4783258
Yeah, I reached because I knew I could afford a dealer baiman and wanted to gamble. But you couldn't afford dealing into one.

Also fuck you guys for discarding all these 4p so early.

Jesus holy fucking Christ jumping on a golden pogo stick, I stop Mahjong for today, too much frustration.

>>4783488

http://www.osamuko.com/2010/04/01/american-mj-strategy-column-what-would-you-discard/#comments

What's the matter? Can't handle a REAL game?

Playan with bros

HURRRRRR
I give up. 7447 is hopeless.

>>4784422
Since there is no ongoing Mahjong anime right now the lobby lacks regular players.

>>4784439
What you just said don't make sense at all. Ongoing animes bring a lot of newcommers who don't know how to play, not regular players.

>>4784439
What you just said doesn't make sense at all. Ongoing animes bring a lot of newcommers who don't know how to play, not regular players.

>>4784439

What about mudazumu naki kaikaku?

>>4784500
Explain the boom when Tetsuya got finally subbed.
Explain why there were lot of people during Saki.

Also. How come when Kaiji aired we got some more people even though the anime didn't even get to the mahjong part, an the only reference were it's connection with the Akagi anime.

Yes. New anime brings new people, but this is not a game that so hard to learn. Some new people actually learn it and play.

>>4784505
Yeah, What about it? I though we'll get lots of new people who would stay a bit.

>>4784570
I didn't deny there are a lot of players when an anime about Mahjong is airing. But these aren't what I would call "regular" players. They just stop playing when the trend is over. By definition, a regular player is someone who doesn't need an anime airing to be interested in the game.

>>4784593
I see your point. Sadly there are not as many as I wish there would be.

Hell, there are people out there who play (online)mahjong regularly and never even heard about tenhou.net

>>4784593
>>4784599
I've loved all forms of games, and will try pretty much anything. My grandmother was a grandmaster at bridge, and everyone in my family plays games - Mah Jong is pretty similar to Gin Rummy. Yet I got into it because of Akagi, and didn't know about tenhou until someone posted it on /a/.

>go for yakuman
>call on wrong tile

>>4784621
Oh god. One time, I was in tempai for a suu-an-kou and accidentally discarded one of my tiles.

>>4784627

I was in suu-an-kou and I called a chi instead of a pon

>>4784638
You can't call a pon and still have suu ankou, you know that, right? Toitoi is 2 han.

derp

>>4784419
Maybe you'll learn someday: Don' kan during riichi!

>>4784652

>>4784652
Oh, that. Well, riichi sanankou toitoi is only a mangan, you didn't miss that much.

>>4784658
Yeah I was laughing when in 2nd round I riichi'd and then Shizune kans and Finlandm kanned twice. Thanks for the extra dora.

>>4784419
Maybe you'll learn someday: Don' kan during riichi!

>>4784685
Yes this is what I was talking about
>>4784680

>>4784685
If he learns that you can't win with an open hand without value, it would be great as well.

>>4784638
I trol u

>>4774967
> 5th KoG55 +333
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Tenhou must predefine the winner or something.

WHAT THE FUCK I keep getting popups about viruses when playing Tenhou

>>4784801
You get those on youtube too right?

CHI CHI CHI CHI
BABY BABY BABY

>>4784848
Why does Maghjong terminology fit so well when making improvised lyrics?

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9595431
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8092047
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8848251
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9776171

Etc

>>4784825
I don't know, this is the first time it's happened and I never got any on Youtube before

does chuuren have to be closed?

>>4784978
Yeah, unless you're playing a version that specifically allows it.

>>4784760
Nah I had a lucky streak, 4 or so tsumo's, and not even really weak hand.

1 more for ari red.

>>4785052
I'm in.

April 1st makes me wish I didn't live under a rock

http://www.osamuko.com/2010/04/01/us-tournament-this-week/

I'll play. 3 more.

Rinshan kaihou one turn after riichi FTW.

A shame I still played into that last hand, putting me into third place. I didn't have many great hands, but I maintained a decent game until the end. Bad luck, I guess.

Good thing I held on to that one.

well

>>4785922

bump

2:0 for 3p come play

GGs Pollux

Two more!

WAT

So it seems that if you discard a tile that two people can win off of, instead of a head bump, you pay out both people... good to know.

Getting to exactly 0 points feels pretty pro.

To durr: Sorry for ending the game prematurely. I knew it would happen if that makes it any better.

Waiting for some more people for 3p or 4p, though full hanchan 4p is a bit longer than I'd like.

Need another for 3p or two for 4p.

>>4788174
Thats why I only play fast time games. Playing full time takes to long, and most of the people in 7447 who do take 15 seconds to discard their first tile. YOU ARE THINKING TOO MUCH, IT ISN'T THAT HARD. Only time you really should need time is when the game is late and you are looking for safe tiles, even then you only need 10 seconds at most.

>>4788406

Alright.

Need like 2 more.

1 more for ari red fast.

Come join!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Who ever i just played with.... I hate fast games. I had like 4 really good hands coming together and you guys are just calling like crazy and winning with this shit hands.

But coolface that open 3 suit 1-3 you called on me was pretty amazing.

>>4789387
you shouldn't have kept discarding sou...

>>4789399

I am that good. But why was discarding those a problem?

>>4789399

I am not that good. But why was discarding those a problem?

WTF is this shit?

How unlucky.

Man, that game...Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.

>>4789500

Wait what?

>>4789500
log?

>>4789500
Holy fuck

I don't get it, do those tiles not exist or something?

>>4789500
Scrub has only 12 tiles while Xin has 15. WTF

>>4789500
Shopped is shopped.

>>4789500
Tenhou replays bug sometimes.

i wonder how long this lasts

>>4789948
How long what lasts?

bump

>>4759499
Good, norwayfag.

Anyone up for a game???

>>4793104

Well you seem to be in a game already. 1:0 on nashi or ari red. Any bros up for one?

>>4793173
>>4793173

Ya, sorry. I posted and a min later i had a game. I que'd up again though.

"Yeah, I'm going to discard that 1m, no way he's got a shanpon/tanki wait after 4 go arounds.

Woops forgot to watch his first four discards."

That was unexpected.
The game was short of a yakuman for _Akagi_.

FFFFFFFF

>>4794227
It's just a single yakuman, right? Everything that came after more than made up for it.

>>4794227
Seriously? That game was a fucking farce. I don't know how you dare complaining.

During times like these, after dealing into a kokushi musou during the fifth go around, and after dealing into the dealer's hand 5 times in a row when I was in tenpai since fifteen turns each time, my hate for 3p Mahjong reaches its summit. It seems like I have to go through something like this at least once in a month. Fuck it.

>>4794298

Because I posted that while we were playing.

Bleh.

I hate it when one of the player is so low on points that you can't really take those winning tiles he keeps throwing.

>>4794474
I hate it when the 1st player leading by 3k points (even though he played into 4 times as many hands as everyone else) and an awful wait (e.g. 5 tanki) declares riichi even though he doesn't have to and wins by tsumo because he miraculously holds the other players winning tiles.

I cried a little inside when I noticed there's no win button.

>>4795543
That's why you should learn the rules of a game before playing it.

Would you have risked it if you were in my situation?

>>4795571

>Two completely identical seqs in the same suit. This hand *must* be closed.

>>4795578
With a 70k lead? Discarding that Haku would be the last thing I would do.

>>4795578

>three fives

>>4795578
that's some extremely absurd luck right there

Anybody run into any familiar faces in 0000? For instance, I got this double yakuman way back...

And then this.

>>4795543
The "鳴かない"(don't call) button is a friend of you newbies. Press it at the beginning of the round then "リーチ"(riichi). The riichi button appears when you get in tenpai.

And then this just now.

>>4795578
Nice. But you would still be the 1st even if you got hit by the yakuman(-32000) anyway.

KOG SUX

How does this picture make you feel?

>>4796133

At first, I thought it was a nice defensive play. The guy who declared richi had a 2 dot out, so discarding the 2 dots was a wise move.

Then I remembered RED FIVES

>>4796133

>>4796133

By the way, that was a haidei tsumo. I can't believe that's my first time getting that.

>>4796180

>garbage hand that should have only been worth 800 is suddenly worth 13000

>>4796187

1500 since he's the dealer

>>4796180
So, you have finally made a Koromo.

>>4796205
I like her theme.
Been a while since I played it, hmm.

WTF
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2007112509gm-0019-0000-4a47c54f

my god you guys get in tenpai fast

Good game.

>>4796984
Average 3p game

Players wanted.

Norwayfag - THE professional mahjong player.

>>4799131
I had a feeling it was gonna happen after I did the second kan.

seriously AoA, I was really just trying to lay low and deal honors/terminals

>>4799189
lies

If you're going to end the hand with a 4th kan, at least play a safe tile.

Cool honitsu _Akagi_

>>4799489
T'was cool right? Hadn't really any other option. It was that, or go for toitoi honitsu and risk dealing into your hand (assuming you're bzzra). Little did I know that I was immune to your wait.

>>4799489
That's too much pon palace.
And damn _Akagi_ for ruining my 75% chance for a win.

>>4799511
>75% chance for a win

How so?

>>4799629
Let's say _Akagi_ doesn't win and the game doesn't end in a draw.
Then I have 3 tiles to wait on and bzzzra has 1, 4 = 100%.
I think you could use the new feature to see where in the wall they are.

>>4799889
Which episode is this?

>>4799893
S2E1.

>>4799739

What kind of twisted logic is that? Oh wait, it was posted by AoA.

You can't say "75%" without already knowing what tiles the other people have. I once had a situation where I needed a 1, 4, or 7 (1234567, waiting for my pair), and some guy declared richi. He managed to tsumo on his 8 bamboo even though three others were out there. You know where the tiles I needed were at? The guy next to me had THREE OF EACH. In that situation, there was literally a 0% chance of victory.

You can calculation the perspective odds based on what you see, but unless you know what is in the other person's hand, you really have no idea of knowing and can only hope that the perspective odds are in your favor.

>>4800862

Reminds me of this situation

The game is over. You can look at the tiles.
I never said "75%" before looking at the tiles.
The fact that I didn't know that it was "75%" at that time doesn't change anything.

>>4801001

Yes, you have to label them different kind of odds. There's perspective odds and real odds. Do try to keep up; I know your brain struggles with it, but even you should at least understand. Stop being so thick-headed.

Is there a way to play longer games on tenhou?

>>4801022
>perspective odds and real odds
perspective odds = fuzzy: bad, good etc.
real odds = XX%, 50:50 etc.

>>4801050
longer than what

>>4801057
Than east and south rounds.

>>4801053

You're just playing on words now. You don't have to call it "perspective". If you can think of a better term, be my guest, but "real odds" refer to the solid, unchangable odds in the game when all knowledge is known, including knowing the tiles of your opponent.

>>4801061
no

>>4801061

What happens in Tenhou if you play the east, south, west, and north rounds all the way through, and no player still has the required amount of points to win? Does the game just end?

>>4801063
If "all knowledge is known", then its not probability. You will either get your winning tile or you won't.

>>4801064
That sucks, I would've liked to try playing a four-round game.

>>4801070
east only games end after south round.

>>4801078

Wrong. When flipping a coin, all knowledge about the coin is known. You know is has a head side and a tail side. What you don't know is how your hand will react and how it will flip the coin. The same goes for Mahjong. If you're waiting on a 5 tile and somebody has a 3-4-5 in their hand, you know that they won't discard it (unless they're being a trolling faggot). What you don't know is what tiles will come out of the wall. Using that, you can predict the odds of drawing the tile from the way or somebody else drawing it and discarding it, hence "real odds".

ITT, fags argue about petty details that have no effect on the game

>>4801063
gay odds

>>4801099
Then that's not "all knowledge is known" then is it.

>>4801125

Again, you're playing on my words, AoA. Stop trying to nitpick and realize that "real odds" aren't the same as "REAL odds".

Who cares, come play.

tsk tsk who the fuck is 2ndtimer? most of the time he is feeding into bzzzra's hand.

Who are all these newfags? Did somebody post this thread on /b/?

>>4801168
What. When?

Cool haku manchild.

>>4801230
If only I hadn't riichi'd on the first hand ;_;

>>4801246
Or choose a better wait than that tanki on 8p. The haku you drew the turn after that would have been perfect for that purpose.

2 more ari red.

gg

>>4801469
Yeah, I don't like it when people don't even try to place first.

Sorry guys, thought I had time to run and grab a quick drink.

>>4801474
Better be 2nd than 3rd.

>>4801469
>>4801474
shut up butthurt sami, your just mad that you got third place

>>4801484
That's butthurt bzzzra, not butthurt Sami.

3P Mahjong: A game of skill

4th place again? I'm fucking jinxed. This is the only good thing that happened to me in this game, but my hope was ruined pretty fast.

Well done, B-Nymph.

Looking for some lovely ladies to join me.

Thanks all - need to dash off to work now.

Looking for 2 more.

3 of us there, let's play 3p for now

3p sure is fun sometimes.

bump

You know what pisses me off? When some faggot gets a 12000+ scoring hand within the first 4 turns and doesn't even declare richi first. You're building your hand, looks good, OH WHOOPS SOME FAG JUST GOT TSUMO THERE GOES 8000 POINTS

>>4804467
Welcome to mahjong. Once you understand the game is 70% luck 20% knowing the rules 10% skill and 2% ざわざわ you will learn to love it.

>>4804467

Mahjong: Japanese Lovechild of Chess and Poker, the latter giving 90% of the genes

>>4804482

Mahjong is 102%?

>>4804467

>doesn't even declare riichi first
>boohoo I got trapped by damaten by someone who actually understands strategy

>>4804528
Thats the joke. Hax can happen which is just absurd luck, so absurd (tenhous or whatever) that it is borderline cheating, or in the case of not playing online, actually cheating.

>>4804645

3p mahjong at its finest

This was one of the most intense east only's I ever played. Was in the dan room, 16ton must have miscalculated his hands value and I won only 1100 points ahead and the other guy was put to -400 so it ended.

>>4804582
>Strategy

>>4804855
Ya, it's that thing that gets people to not be 64th on ponpalace.
Sorry if my jargon went over your head, I'll to make it easier for you

Play better = do better

Did you get that?
Ahhh, sorry I know it's hard to understand.

>>4804963
Discard the right tiles - get big hands

Feels good man

>>4805046

2nd place still?

>>4805046
all that for 12k. you disappoint son.

>>4805031
I think it is more "discard the wrong tiles, fail miserably" Which is generally how people end up in last place, by dealing into obvious hands.

>>4805066

Whenever I get an all-character hand, I don't care of its value or what place I'm at. All-character hands are my favorite ones to get. I knew I wasn't going to win anyway when people were declaring richi or tsumo/ronning within the first 5 turns nearly every round anyway.

>>4805066

Whenever I get an all-character hand, I don't care of its value or what place I'm at. All-character hands are my favorite ones to get. I knew I wasn't going to win anyway when people were declaring richi or tsumo/ronning within the first 5 turns nearly every round anyway.

>>4805070

No dora, uradora, red fives, or iipeekoo unfortunately, but when I saw Oneesama richi, I wasn't waiting for a better wait just so he could win with a 800 hand.

Basic Mahjong Strategy (everything you need to know to be a bro)
1. This isn't the tile clicking game.
2. If you have 356 of one suit, its a good idea to discard the 3, don't ask why, just do it.
3. You need at least one yaku to go out. Calling "chi" at random will not get you that yaku.
4. Don't gamble with money, wager a body part instead.
5. Calling "pon" on a set of dragons will get you a yaku. Ignore everyone at the table when they make faces and exclaim "GOIN' FOR DEM FANPIEZ!!"
6. Calling "pon" four times will get you a yaku. Ignore everyone at the table when they make faces and exclaim "GOIN' FOR DEM TOY-TOYZ!!"

I'll bet there's a shitload of strategy to mahjong, but I have no idea where to find it, at least not in English. My "strategy" in mahjong is just study my opponents construct their hands, and occasionally dealing habits. I have no idea how these mahjong shows come up with "but that wasn't a SAFE TILE. What was he thinking with that discard!??!?!?!" I'm completely unaware of any system of determining whether or not a specific play is risky or not. I just get a gut feeling. Do you guys use any complex strategy in your game?

Pic related: its your moment of zen

>>4805141
Osamuko's mahjong blog has a pretty good write-up of suji reading.

>>4805141

http://www.osamuko.com/2009/02/18/umaikeiki-defense-guide-betaori-and-suji/

http://www.osamuko.com/2009/02/23/defense-guide-2-kabe-saki-giri-dama-ten/

More tips from a true Mahjong master:
-Get a good rest before each match because if you don't the tiles will look blurry.
-If you think you'll need a certain tile DON'T DISCARD IT.
-Know what you're doing, I can't stress this enough.
-Use your eyes to watch players, especially your peripheral vision. Always keep an eye on other players, don't even look at your own hand.
-Bad body odor and dead fish in coat pocket will give you an edge in the game.
If you are wondering why a total noob managed to extract such complex and useful information so easily, its because he's very observant.

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>>4805189