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WWYD 1/16/10

Jan 16th, 2010
by jenn

South Round, last Hand, Dealer (East), 18,000 points, 7th draw, Lucky Tile:

There are 2 discarded already.

There is 1 discarded already.

Tags: Jenn Barr, Jenn's Corner, reach mahjong, Reachmahjong.com, What would you discard?, WWYD
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I honestly believe that JPML is the best mahjong league in the world. When I first joined in 2006, the JPML website was in desperate need of a makeover. About a year later, it got that makeover and now our site is booming.
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Tags: Jenn Barr, JPML, mahjong, reach mahjong, Riichi, Shintaro Konno
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Jenn’s Corner #34: The Quest

Oct 15th, 2009
by jenn

Suddenly being a professional mahjong player in Japan has a new requirement. You also have to be a professional or at least an aspiring Dragon Quest player. That’s right, Dragon Quest IX has been out in Japan for the past few months and that is what all mahjong players are doing between tournaments. Believe it or not these types of games are much more common to find in a professional mahjong player’s DS than, say, a game based on mahjong.

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Jenn’s Corner #17: New Developments

Oct 27th, 2007
by jenn

Reach is becoming bigger and bigger andReachMahjong.com is helping to lead the way! Coming up on our 1st Birthday (sometime in December), Reach Mahjong: The Only Way to Play has been part of lots of great new plans and is working on more as we speak!

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Jenn’s Corner #16: Mahjong Variations

Oct 3rd, 2007
by jenn

Note: There was information that I forgot to add to the final 2 problems in Garthe’s last column. I’ve fixed the problem, so please take a look and write your answers in the comment section.
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Jenn’s Corner #15: OEMC

Aug 12th, 2007
by jenn

I took my first trip to Europe, using the excuse that my sister was studying/interning in Italy and stopping in Copenhagen for the 2nd OEMC. This was the first tournament I ever attended that used the Chinese Official rules and also the first tournament I attended that offered no cash prizes for the winners. The organizers are all volunteering and this was amazing to me, coming from a background where playing Mahjong for money is not only accepted, but considered to be the norm.
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Jenn’s Corner #14: Playing in the World Series of Mahjong

Jul 11th, 2007
by jenn

I went to Macau last month as a member of the press, planning to cover this inaugural event for ReachMahjong.com and ended up the only American female to play in the competition. I didn’t know until the night before that I would be able to compete, so I had not learned the rules as thoroughly as I would have liked to. I had read a brief summary on WSOM’s website before going, so I knew that many of the hands were the same as in Reach Mahjong, but the scoring was quite different. I spent the entire night before the first round memorizing the hands and scoring, grateful that we would be allowed to keep a card of hands on the table while playing.
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Jenn’s Corner #13: Out in the World

Jun 13th, 2007
by jenn

Another pictureless, but not an imageless column

First, updates, since that is my job

Ron2 translation is finished, waiting for administration to get the thing into action. I know everyone is excited and waiting for it, so I’m really trying to push them as hard as I can, but they’re tough.
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