Just started Riichi Mahjong and getting videos that expalin to me why I lose or why I cant form a winning hand, which mistakes I have probably done is good to eliminate the possibilities to never get a win under my belt. Great video.
Lessons straight out of G Uzakus Tile Efficiency book which I warmly recommend to everyone. But this video had very good presentation and summarized strategies well. Looking forward to the next ones!
I took the advice in your video and it really improved my tenpai rate and quality! Before this, I rarely have waits on multiple tiles when in tenpai, now I can constantly get two tiles wait in tenpai.
This tanki thing seems wrong? In this case you have tenpai for a single time wait, but one away from a double sided (though not ideal) improved wait. And you're potentially waiting on 8 tiles to improve it. That is, you're waiting on 9 tiles, where one of them lets you win straight up. That is, if everything is ideal, you'd wait on 3 + 3* (8) + 4 = 31 actual tiles to improve/win your hand. Defintely agree with that 4 tiles in a row is super strong, or any tiles that are near each other are super strong, and can improve waits significantly... But waiting on a pair if you're doing sequences is imo not a bad thing; as long as you don't riichi.
Ryankan is definitely something I have noticed during my game since when I was a newbie, but the theory didn’t really click to me clearly, so this video has been a big help for a knot in my mind. I think I use to notice instinctively the pattern of ryankan when 1. Complex 6 tiles shape with 1 seq, 1 ryanmen and 1 “aloof” tile 2. If the “aloof” tile is another suji with what you wait on ryanmen, the pattern is likely ryankan. ( 134456 is not ryankan while 134556 is ryankan) I will definitely incorporate the knowledge into tile efficiency in my game. Thank you.
Nice video. Thanks for making it. For the hand in 5:28, there's probably one more exception not mentioned where it's getting close to the end of the hand, and you want to be in tenpai, then in this case, fixing the mentsu could be a good idea since you don't care bad waits and just want the widest acceptance.
Thank you for your well explained videos, but I didn't memorized the terminology yet (shanpon, kanchan, ...) Could you make a terminology focused video?
Wouldn’t it be better to hold onto double side waits rather than the ryankan? I get it has slightly better tile acceptance but it’s also risky. Like in your example at 4:42 if you ditch the 8m to keep the possible 357m wait you might have better tile acceptance but then if you draw the tiles for the other waits first you are left discarding one end and waiting on a kanchan wait for your final tile. It feels like the slight dip in tile acceptance would be worth it in exchange for the better potential wait to finish on. Especially when waits like 14m and 69m would be solid waits to riichi on.
