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This Season’s Featured Players: The Final Session

Mar 27th, 2009
by admin

As part of our quest to bring you closer to the best mahjong players in the world and get a little bit more inside their heads, Jenn and I have each chosen a couple players in particular whose performance we’ll follow a little more closely. I’m following Takizawa and Miyauchi Kozue. Who knows, maybe we’ll learn a little something from them too. By the way, Takizawa is mostly known endearingly throughout the league as “Takki”, which is what I’ll be referring to him as here too.
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Cherry Blossom 2009 Newsletter

Feb 12th, 2009
by Gemma

Lots of you may have already seen this as Martin kindly posted it as a comment. But just in case… To whet your appetite for the coming competition and perhaps convince those still on the fence Mahjong Netherlands have produced this newsletter.
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This Season’s Featured Players Part 4

Feb 1st, 2009
by garthe

As part of our quest to bring you closer to the best mahjong players in the world and get a little bit more inside their heads, Jenn and I have each chosen a couple players in particular whose performance we’ll follow a little more closely. I’m following Takizawa and Miyauchi Kozue. Who knows, maybe we’ll learn a little something from them too. By the way, Takizawa is mostly known endearingly throughout the league as “Takki”, which is what I’ll be referring to him as here too. (more…)

JPML OUI Tournament Results

Jan 20th, 2009
by jenn

When I got a text message from our friend Kaori Shimizu saying that she didn’t do very well at the OUI tournament in November, I figured that she had gone out in the quarter-finals. (more…)

Jenn and Garthe’s November League Results

Dec 25th, 2008
by jenn

Garthe and Jenn are in separate leagues for the first time ever. Read about how they fared in November and their prospects for the last 3 sessions of the season. (more…)

This Season’s Featured Players Part 3

Dec 24th, 2008
by garthe

As part of our quest to bring you closer to the best mahjong players in the world and get a little bit more inside their heads, Jenn and I have each chosen a couple players in particular whose performance we’ll follow a little more closely. I’m following Takizawa and Miyauchi Kozue. Who knows, maybe we’ll learn a little something from them too. By the way, Takizawa is mostly known endearingly throughout the league as “Takki”, which is what I’ll be referring to him as here too. (more…)

Going to the Mahjong SuperCup in Macau

Dec 22nd, 2008
by admin

Active ImageLast week I arrived in Hong Kong one day before the rest of the ReachMahjong.com team to check out the hotel and get settled. The next day I went to Hong Kong station to pick up Yuko Ito, Naoki Setokuma, Kaori Shimizu, Shintaro Konno and Garthe Nelson of the Japan Professional Mahjong League and Mitsuhiro Minagawa, who would also play in the event.
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This Season’s Featured Players Part 2

Nov 23rd, 2008
by garthe

As part of our quest to bring you closer to the best mahjong players in the world and get a little bit more inside their heads, Jenn and I have each chosen a couple players in particular whose performance we’ll follow a little more closely. I’m following Takizawa and Miyauchi Kozue. Who knows, maybe we’ll learn a little something from them too. By the way, Takizawa is mostly known endearingly throughout the league as “Takki”, which is what I’ll be referring to him as here too. (more…)

This Season’s Featured Players Part 1

Nov 22nd, 2008
by garthe

As part of our quest to bring you closer to the best mahjong players in the world and get a little bit more inside their heads, Jenn and I have each chosen a couple players in particular whose performance we’ll follow a little more closely. I’m following Takizawa and Miyauchi Kozue. Who knows, maybe we’ll learn a little something from them too. By the way, Takizawa is mostly known endearingly throughout the league as “Takki”, which is what I’ll be referring to him as here too. (more…)

The First-ever WSOM Reach Event

Oct 5th, 2008
by admin


By Shintaro Konno, September 19, 2008

Hello and nice to meet you. I am Shintaro Konno from the Japan Professional Mahjong League. I’m writing this on September 18th and I’m going to tell you about today’s 2008 World Series of Mahjong Reach Event that took place at the Wynn today. (more…)

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