Monday (December 8)

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Game 1

Mizuhara Movement

December 8, Game 1
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s80_p2562

In E1-0, Mizuhara is the first dealer and starts out at 4-shanten with a pair of red dragons and a dora 4m. After making a 345m sequence and a souzu group, Mizuhara gets to 2-shanten at the end of the first row. In the second row, Mizuhara makes a 567 sequence and a 7m triplet. Getting to tenpai and calls riichi on a red dragon/9m shanpon.

To her right, Daisuke has already called pon twice and is at a ryanmen-ryanmen iishanten. In the third row, he fills in one of them and gets to tenpai on a 36p ryanmen.

Two turns later, Mizuhara draws the red dragon and wins the hand. Mizuhara wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Red Dragon/Dora 1 for 4,000 all.

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Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s5_p10533

In E1-1, Mizuhara starts out with a 3-shanten hand with two connected red fives. In the first row, Mizuhara shifts her hand towards all simples, getting her to iishanten by turn 3. By the end of the row, she has a guaranteed good wait.

Across from her, Kazuma is iishanten. In the middle of the second row, Kazuma calls pon on the west and gets to tenpai on a 1m/6p shanpon.

Towards the end of the second row, Mizuhara gets to tenpai and waits dama on a 36s ryanmen, guaranteed at least a mangan.

On Kazuma’s turn, he gets a red 5p and switches to a 47p ryanmen. Despite the two-sided wait, Kazuma’s winning tiles go down from 2 to 1.

At the start of the third row, Takizawa gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 3p kanchan.

Deciding to try and get more points, Mizuhara calls a chasing riichi. Daisuke gets to tenpai right after, but has no yaku. Within the ippatsu round, Takizawa discards the 6s and deals into Mizuhara. Mizuhara wins the hand with Riichi/Ippatsu/Pinfu/Tanyao/Aka 2 for 18,000+300 plus a riichi stick, moving her up to 56,300.

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Daisuke

December 8, Game 1, E2-0
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s80_p2563

In E2-0, Daisuke is in 3rd place and 2,200 behind 2nd Kazuma.

Daisuke starts out the hand at 2-shanten with two ryanmens in hand. On turn 4, Daisuke gets to iishanten.

To his right, Kazuma also gets to iishanten on turn 4. Over the next few turns, he pairs up the 1p dora and gets a red 5s. Drawing a third 1p dora at the start of the second row, Kazuma gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 36s ryanmen, guaranteed at least a haneman if he wins.

Back to Daisuke, he is waiting on 14 different tiles for tenpai. As Daisuke waits on the wide wait, Kazuma draws a fourth 1p dora and calls a concealed kan, giving another dora opportunity. In the middle of the second row, Daisuke makes a pair 5m and calls riichi on a 147p three-sided wait. At the end of the row, Kazuma discards the 4p and deals into Daisuke. With the 5m pair becoming the uradora as well, Daisuke wins with Riichi/Pinfu/Ura 2 for 12,000 plus a riichi stick, moving up to 2nd.

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Results

Game 141

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Game 2

Tojo Time

December 8, Game 2, E4-0
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s5_p11023

In E4-0, Tojo is in 4th place, 1,700 behind 3rd place dealer Shibata, 7,000 behind 2nd place Takamiya and 12,100 behind 1st place Nakabayashi.

Tojo starts out the hand drawing a dora 7m, joining her red 5s and red 5m to get to 2-shanten. On turn 2, he fills in a 7s kanchan to get to iishanten. On turn 4, she gets to tenpai on a 5p kanchan, but stays dama with no yaku. With the poor wait and the ability to improve she breaks it on her next turn.

In the second row, Tojo gets that improvement and calls riichi on a 258s three-sided wait with 6 winning tiles in the wall. In the middle of the third row, Tojo draws the 5s and wins the hand. Tojo wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Pinfu/Dora 1/Aka 2 for 3,000/6,000, catapulting her from 4th to 1st.

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K

December 8, Game 2, S1-1

In S1-1, Nakabayashi is in 2nd place and is 13,300 behind 1st place dealer Tojo.

Nakabayashi starts out the hand at 3-shanten with a dora 3s. In the first row, he draws a 4s to complete a 345s sequence and get to 2-shanten. After completing a 789m sequence in manzu and a ryanmen in pinzu, he guarantees himself a good wait. In the middle of the second row, Nakabayashi gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 25p ryanmen.

In the middle of the third row, Nakabayashi draws the 2p and wins the hand. With the 2p also being the uradora, Nakabayashi wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Pinfu/Dora 1/Ura 1 for 2,000+100/4,000+100, getting Nakabayashi within 900 of 1st place.

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Results

Game 142

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