It was a good discussion. At the end of the day, a player’s conclusion to this may largely dependent on playing style. I think we have discussed what we needed to so this is my last post. Let me try to re-analyse this as my own practice. Pros of discarding West Dora 1. It is likely to be safe now th...

1) Depends what kind of draw? So you will take toimen as tenpai upon 2nd meld and continue to push when he has 1 meld?

2) if not for , what's other function of keeping ? You mentioned flexibility, so what's the flexibility here besides leaving space for ?

What's your course of action when west dora has been ponned by toimen? Will you blame on luck? Sure, I'll blame it on luck. I already made my decision that discarding west at this point in time is the optimal move, and as we all know the optimal move doesn't always produce the desired result. If I ...

If it is South 3, then someone tsumo'ing mangan is a big deal, but it is East 3. With this type of point situation in East 3 of a hanchan, you can practically consider it even. With this in mind, in addition to being dealer, your policy at the beginning of the hand should be to proceed to tenpai as...

This may not be important but you state above that :west has already been discarded here. I don't see that. Would that affect any of your reasoning? I assume that you would, and I agree, still hold on to the west dora. I referring to a hypothetical situation if one chooses discard west over 1sou in...

Ittsu is not confirmed. San sho ku is not confirmed. Pinfu is not confirmed as well. With no confirmed yaku, no aka-dora, you current hand progression is at riichi-nomi. By simple risk-benefit analysis, the worst discard here is dora :west . Consider the risk of toimen getting your :west pon. His ha...

Junchan or chanta is an amazing yaku to go for which has been highly underestimated. Before attempting junchan or chanta, the most important factor is not your hand shape but what is the dora. For example, many players struggle to utilise dora when the dora is a honour tile. Chanta or Junchan is som...

Let's analyse this with more depth. Given 2 totally different directions in conceptualising a highest value hand, there are many reasons why it is better to be optimistic on getting 2 doras then to get sanankou. 1. There is a theory that a confirmed 1 han is better than an unconfirmed 2 han. I can't...

However, the mistake is more of your discard of 7m when you should have discarded 6m. a 6m 6s shanpon wait is terrible. You won on 6m was out of that player's mistake. (He shouldn't have discarded it when it is a live suji to Riichi). Discarding 6m (it is relatively safe to you as it is 1-chance.) ...

I do not think this is a clear-cut 7toi case. To do a good 7toi, try to have 2-3 tiles remaining that will give you good waits upon tenpai. That is to say, to have honor tiles for easy Tanki wait. If you keep that 234s, whichever arrives wouldn't give you a good wait, you will still have to wait aga...

When your hand takes shape, more likely or not, you can start focusing aiming to utilise your dora and discard excessive tiles that hinder this. Hence, my choice is 4s. (little difference with 8s actually) Try to conceptualise the highest value this hand can go to. This is my conception: 456 678s fr...