I love mahjong.
\nI can’t quite say, but I’ve been hooked for… six years?
\nNo matter how much I play, I don’t get better…
\nThat person decides on a key tile\u2014using honor tiles.
\nEvery hand they either stack it or squeeze it.
\nDoesn’t that happen often? If I could just call this honor tile, things would move along so fast…
\nBut holding onto an honor tile you can’t play for ten turns is rough, right?
\nI forget which hand in the south round it was… with nine pin as the bonus tile.
\nBy the fifth turn, I had a hand ready for all simples and honors. I was waiting on either the center or the white dragon as a single tile, and I chose the white dragon.
\nBecause I’d decided it was my key tile.
\nAfter eleven turns I drew an eight pin, giving me all simples and one terminal with a red five\u2014a double hand. I discarded the white dragon.
\nThe dealer called it. I could tell nine times out of ten they had a ready hand.
\nI bent my hand into a straight instead…
\nI don’t like straights. It’s because I’m using at least two or three tiles myself at minimum.
\nMy hand at that point was 111 222 566778 8.
\nI didn’t want to bend it if I could help it, but one tile away I could see four triplets, and I could even see three triplets and a pair. A hand like that…
\nAt minimum a double hand.
\nThree times or even more\u2014I still remember it: 4,700 points and fourth place, last. (3,700 because I bent it.)
\nEven if I’d won 8,000 points here, it wouldn’t have mattered… I needed a double win or a double self-draw to have a shot.
\nA few turns later the dealer drew an eight pin and won 4,000 from everyone.
\nOf course someone called “Last!” What was so pathetic was that I wasn’t even in the race for second or third before I went bust.
\nFourth place went bust\u2014that’s what happened.
\nIt was the worst… I finished in last place feeling deeply sorry.
\nI should have kept my hand concealed with a point count that could survive 4,000 from everyone.
\nAnd then the flip bonus was a one pin\u2014at least a double hand…
\nIt was such a nauseating sequence of events\u2014a total Dempsey roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love mahjong. I can’t quite say, but I’ve been hooked for… six years? No matter how much I play, I don’t get better… That person decides on a key tile\u2014using honor tiles. Every hand they either stack it or squeeze it. Doesn’t that happen often? If I could just call this honor tile, things would move along so fast… But holding onto an honor tile you can’t play for ten turns is rough, right? I forget which hand in the south round it was… with nine pin as the bonus tile. By the fifth turn, I had a hand ready for all simples and honors. I was waiting on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-82241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}