Game #7
EX Furinkazan
Konami Mahjong
Fight Club
Shibuya
Abemas
Team Raiden
Ryanmen
May 12, Game 1, E3-1
In E3-1, Hisato is in 1st place and has a slim 1,200 over 2nd place. With the Shibuya Abemas starting to move ahead of the rest of the pack, Hisato wants to win this game to stop the Shibuya Abemas from running away with it.
Hisato starts the hand of 4-shanten with two red fives and a 58p ryanmen. In the first row, Hisato creates an ankou of 5m and a sequence to get to iishanten on turn 5. At the end of the second row, Hisato fills in a penchan and calls riichi on a 58p ryanmen.
Approaching the end of the hand, Shiratori manages to get to tenpai as well and waits on a 14m ryanmen (with the 4m being the only one to give a yaku). A turn later, he switches to a 2m tanki with one draw left for everyone.
On Matsugase’s last draw, he has a chance to get to tenpai, but would have to throw either the 5p or 8p from her 56668p shape. With three 6p visible to him, Matsugase takes the risk and calls riichi by throwing the 8p, but he ends up dealing into Hisato.
Hisato wins the hand with Riichi/Aka 2/Ura 1 for 8,000+300 plus one riichi stick.
Getting Close
May 12, Game 1, S2-0
In S2-0, Shiratori is in 2nd place and 15,000 behind 1st place dealer Hisato. With a limit hand, Shiratori can get close to 1st place.
Shiratori starts out the hand with a far 5-shanten hand, but he does have two ryanmen candidates and a dora 5s. In the first row, he makes a pair of red dragons, another ryanmen, fills in a kanchan and gets to iishanten at the end of the row. In the middle of the second row, Shiratori makes the red dragon pair an ankou and calls riichi on a 47p ryanmen.
During the ippatsu round, Matsugase gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 4s kanchan.
In the middle of the third row, Shiratori finally draws the winning 4p and wins the hand. Shiratori wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Red Dragon/Dora 1 for 2,000/4,000 plus one riichi stick, putting Shiratori within 2,000 of 1st place.
Forcing the Hand
May 12, Game 1, S4-1
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-14_s40_p756
In S4-1, Hisato is in 1st place and 3,500 ahead of 2nd place Shiratori. With 1,300 in bonuses available, Hisato wants to win this hand to win the game or, at the very least, stop Shiratori from winning a 3 han hand.
Hisato starts out the hand 3-shanten with a pair of west yakuhai. With that pair of wests, Hisato can just call pon with it and have a yaku. Becuase he can do anything with the rest of his hand, Hisato calls pon on the 9p on turn 2 to get to iishanten. With the terminal pon, he forces Shiratori’s hand. Because Hisato has made it obvious that he’s going for yakuhai, a draw of the west by Shiratori will either severely slow down his hand or be a very likely deal-in. Near the end of the second row, Shiratori gets to tenpai and waits on a west/5p shanpon, with the west being the only tile to give a yaku. On Shiratori’s draw, he gets the west. Though it is obvious that Hisato is waiting on it, Shiratori’s hand cannot advance without getting rid of it. Shiratori takes the gamble that Hisato is not yet ready and throws the west, dealing into Hisato. Hisato wins the hand with West only for 1,000+300 plus one riichi stick to win the hand.
Final Scores
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-15_s10_p225
Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_league_jikkyo/status/1656986351789813761
Standings
After losing on Tuesday, Hisato has finally redeemed himself with a 1st place, helping the team move up into 2nd place. However, the strong 2nd place by Shiratori and the Shibuya Abemas helped limit Hisato’s win, maintaining a sizeable lead over them.
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