I know this is old, but this is so apropos for me right now. I'm a new player and just ranked up into Adept on MJS. After some initial success, I started losing. I kept seeing everyone get into Tenpai way faster than me and started calling excessively, keeping honor tiles to try and make yakus, and refusing to fold small value hands because I felt I needed to win a hand since everyone was winning 2000 pt hands before I could even get started. Now I've managed to rank down and have gotten frustrated. Watching this makes me realize that I need to return to the theory that I've learned and ignore the other players.
I am absolutely prone to the "making fast low scoring hands when you're in last" thing. I can recognise after the fact that it was wrong to do but at the time it really gets in my head.
Yeah, that's absolutely one of the hardest things about online mahjong - it truly is a different atmosphere than friendly or tournament settings for that.
love this, found myself in the same position which is awesome because you make videos :D I was breaking everything down to luck and trying to push really good hands i have seen in the past which has made no improvement on my ranking. please please please add the numbers winds and dragon references to your videos they are really hard to follow when you dont know the symbols :( you have the best advanced Mahjong videos on youtube (in English) love your stuff
im french and i have hard time trying to understand you, your diction is quite difficult for a non american speaker, when british accent is so easier to understand. Could you please try to speak slower or something the next time please ;)
