Discard Reading and Defensive Play - Riichi Mahjong Strategy 

wow, this game has such depth, it's incredible. there are so many things to focus on... it's gonna be a long while until I can confidently track my opponents discards like this! but to think how much information pro's are processing with every single draw of a game... that's mind blowing!

"This video would be a couple hours long at the absolute least." I mean, I'd certainly not be opposed to longer videos. 😉

This is amazing, there is not enough information on riichi mahjong for non-Japanese speakers, especially on defence. A shame because I think the intricacy of defensive play sets riichi mahjong apart from other variants. Hope you continue this series or even write a book like Chiba's.

It feels like it's way more important to not lose the hands than winning them. Anybody can win a hand or two here and there, but only the best players can make sure that the avoid playing into someone's hand.

Just found your channel a week ago. Glad you're still uploading!

So glad I discovered your channel. Your videos are very well put together, and your experience clearly shows. Keep up the good work. 👍

I found it a good way to practice in riichi city, where you can actually show you tedashi and tsumogiri during live play. This way you can first learn to analyze the discard and then work on your memory skills.

Amazing study, i had heard usually you just remember if a tile is tsumogiri so you don't have to remember for each discard.

This was a great short explanation, I was looking for this kind of advice

AWESOME! I usually only pay attention to the riichi tile, but this is another level of reading :D

Man- throw the 56 tong without doubt. Nigerudayo is the greatest strength a Mahjong player could possess

Thanks for the video!! been trying to improve my defensive skills and this will help a lot

Came here from the reddit post. Great content, looking forward to more

Really enjoying your videos Subscribed ❤️🤗

sorry but I think your audio is too low, I have to bump my volume up to 100% and still can't hear your voice clearly. love all the lessons

This is what i figured. To learn to detect tsumogiri and tadashi, you have to be good enough you dont even have to think to know what tiles are needed for your hand. So this skill of defensive reading is only necessary once the average noob has gotten gud enough to play the game as easily as he breathes The noob spends 90% of his time spent looking at his hand, thinking how to improve it. The got gud player spends 90% of his time looking at the other players. Plus, tsumogiri and tadashi is easy to do when focusing on one dangerous player. But when all the players are good and you gotta multitask and pay attention to all? A tad harder.

So given this analysis, both players made a mistake, right? Kamicha's attempt to improve their wait from 8-9 to 6-8 (to 5-6 i suppose) telegraph's the play. Hiding in the shadows through tsumogiri is much better given given their discards

Please, just speak little bit slower for non native English speaking people