Back in the Saddle
My tilt isn’t confined to online games though. I go on tilt in real games too. I can get frustrated really quickly when my tiles don’t come through for me.
A while back I wrote that I was finding it difficult to get excited about mahjong. That period of my life is over and I am playing everyday again!
I’m not sure exactly what changed. Perhaps it was while making my travel preperations for the Red 5s tournament and the Cherry Blossom tournament. Or perhaps it was my mother asking me to teach her mahjong over the Christmas period. Either way, there hasn’t been many days recently when I haven’t played some mahjong.
Something is different this time though. Usually I don’t look or care about my stats but recently I’ve been checking my tenhou stats regularly to see how I’m doing.
(No. of battles) 対戦数: 176
(Average score) 平均得点: +5.375
(Greatest score) 最多得点: +76
(Average place) 平均順位: 2.381
(1st place rate) 1位率: 0.324
(2nd place rate) 2位率: 0.216
(3rd place rate) 3位率: 0.216
(4th place rate) 4位率: 0.244
It’s not looking too bad at the moment but one thing I’m starting to notice is that I most often get either first or last place. This week’s ranking doesn’t express that as well as previous rankings have, but you can see the general trend from the above.
I know if I don’t concentrate I lose and that can happen quite a lot on online mahjong. An email comes through or the phone rings etc. Often I play as a break to my workday but that doesn’t help my performance as I often lose when I’m tired. But the biggest factor is that I have a tendency to lose it and go on tilt… If I lose once or lose a hand that I feel I should have won, that’s it; I won’t win anymore in that session. I just starting making really stupid decisions. Reaching when I shouldn’t, playing aggressive when I shouldn’t and so on and so forth.
My tilt isn’t confined to online games though. I go on tilt in real games too. I can get frustrated really quickly when my tiles don’t come through for me. I need to work on that, and I think that’s going to be my aim for the next month or two – learn to stay calm and keep control of my hand. Otherwise, there is no way I’m going to improve in the 2010 tournaments.
