What should I do?

Go for the 1p dora wait, or the more likely 9s wait
And should I riichi or no?

I went for the dora wait with riichi, but sadly South had the winning tiles

edit: looking back, maybe I should've gone for 9s wait and riichi, since I dropped a 6s
scumbag suji trap

Then again, I had suji trap for 4p as well hmm
And riichi, double dora, aka dora, chiitoi gives me haneman (which was primary reason)

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

November 23 2013 22:36 GMT

#442

Ahhh suji. After getting burned hard by them, I rely on them - but never with the riichi declaration tile itself - only when I am about to run out of time and has no reads. Still useful tool to eliminate possibilities when plenty of tiles are discarded though.

I probably would have discarded dora tile to see if anyone calls on it, then declare riichi with 9s wait. Or maybe even would have stayed in dama-ten. Feels like going for haneman when you are at first feels unnecessary. I become very cautious upon being first though...

If I was behind and needed points, would have discarded 9s and have dora wait, though in that case I'd probably never declare riichi (I'd say unless really really desperate, but still I wouldn't. I'd rather have more points to climb closer to 3rd position then risk everything on all or nothing bet).

JSH

United States4109 Posts

November 24 2013 01:32 GMT

#443

Yeah, since I was in lead, I guess I should've went for 9s

No riichi is probably always better on chiitoi wait, just because tanki wait sucks, but suji trap

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

November 24 2013 04:28 GMT

#444

By the way, how do you set backgrounds for the Tenhou? Is it one of those premium things?

JSH

United States4109 Posts

November 24 2013 05:04 GMT

#445

Yeah, it's from the premium client

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

November 24 2013 05:18 GMT

#446

Bahhhhhhh
I need to participate in one of those official tournaments some day and win a premium client

Rhaegar99

Australia1190 Posts

November 24 2013 06:23 GMT

#447

Yea your best play here is to riichi and wait on the 9s. The other and worse play is to wait on the 1p and not riichi. I think riichi the 1p is really bad cause even though its suji and everything, many people would rather discard any other tile than the risk the off chance of feeding 2 extra yaku and a minimum of 5200 points. Even worse is that one 1p has already been discarded.

Like hesmyrr said, there is no need to aim for a haneman when your in the lead. In fact, what you aim to do when your in the lead is to get ahead of second place by at least a 8000 points, or even better, 10000 points, so that the majority of times, second place would need two non-east rounds to get ahead of you.

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

November 24 2013 07:57 GMT

#448

Looking at the discards in that situation, my gut feeling is that it's unlikely for another 1p to come out. It doesn't look like anyone still has one of them that they wouldn't need. South and West though might have a 9s sitting in their hand that could come out as they improve their hands (not too likely in the actual game though, since South is keeping his, and West has other places to improve).

This is just my gut feeling though. I might be able to back this up with statistics one day...

Riichi would be fine then, since everyone will suspect you being tenpai when you discard the 1p in this situation anyways. You're probably not going to fool anyone with damaten.

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

November 24 2013 22:29 GMT

#449

Is it just me or is Tenhou server really crappy at the moment?

JSH

United States4109 Posts

November 25 2013 23:52 GMT

#450

Blehhh I disconnect at the very last hand after 2 draws, I had over 14k lead so I wasn't too worried

I connect back and tenhou tells me I got 2nd?

So I check replay and: