Tuesday (February 10)

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Game 1

Ippatsu

February 10, Game 1, E3-0
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s5_p7054

In E3-0, Sonoda is in a 2nd place tie, 12,100 behind 1st place dealer Shimoishi.

Sonoda starts out the hand at 3-shanten with a red 5s and a 7s dora, needing a 6s to secure both of them. On turn 2, he draws a second 7s dora. Throught he rest of the first row, Sonoda makes a 1p triplet and gets to iishanten. In the second row, Sonoda draws a 6s to widen his iishanten. On turn 11, he gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 25mm ryanmen. On his very next turn, he draws the 2m and wins the hand. Sonoda wins with Riichi/Ippatsu/Tsumo/Pinfu/Dora 1/Aka 1 for 3,000/6,000, moving into 1st.

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Sanzou

February 10, Game 1

In S3-0, Shimoishi is the dealer in 3rd place, 9,600 behind 2nd place Kazuma and 35,500 behind 1st place Sonoda.

From the start, Shimoishi is at 2-shanten with a secured red 5s. He has a lot of honours and souzu with just the 2m being out of place. After getting a few more souzu shapes, Shimoishi calls pon on the red dragon in the second row and gets to tenpai on a 3s kanchan, guaranteed a mangan. Within the go-around, Shiratori discards the 3s and deals into Shimoishi. Shimoishi wins the hand with Honitsu/Green Dragon/Aka 1 for 12,000.

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In S3-1, Shimoishi starts off filling in a 5s kanchan to get to 3-shanten. With a red 5p as part of a ryanmen, things are looking positive for the hand. Within the first four turns, Shimoishi completes a 456p sequence and gets to iishanten. After draws a 7s dora and pairing up the 3m, Shimoishi gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 3s wait.

During the go-around, Kazuma gets to a ryanmen-ryanmen iishanten. In the middle of the row, he gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 14p ryanmen.

Kazuma has four winning tiles, Shimoishi has one. But, that one tile is the 3s. In the third row, Shimoishi draws the 3s and wins the hand. Shimoishi wins the hand with Riichi/Tsumo/Dora 1/Aka 1/Ura 1 for 4,000+100 all plus a riichi stick, putting him within 6,100 behind 1st place Sonoda.

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Strange Swing

February 10, Game 1, S4-0

In S4-0, Kazuma is 20,800 behind 2nd place Shimoishi, who is 9,900 behind 1st place dealer Sonoda.

Sonoda looks good at 3-shanten with a secured red 5m and good shapes, Kazuma is at 3-shanten as well with a connected red 5s, and Shimoishi is 2-shanten with a pair of green dragons. Sonoda gets to iishanten with some good acceptance, Kazuma adds a red 5p to his hand and gets to 2-shanten, while Shimoishi stalls.

In the second row, Kazuma is the first to iishanten, waiting on a 7s kanchan. But he has no yaku and stays dama.In the third row, he shifts a 123s sequence to a 234s sequence, giving him tanyao. But, he remains dama.

In the middle of the second row, Shimoishi gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 258p three-sided wait.

Within the go-around, Kazuma improves his wait and calls riichi on a 47s ryanmen, guaranteed at least 5 han if he wins.

Now, Sonoda feels threatened by Shimoishi, worried that Shimoishi will win and move into 1st place. With this in mind, Sonoda considers intentionally dealing into Kazuma. Under the assumption that Kazuma has a hand worth at most a mangan, Sonoda decides to discard the 7s, a tile safe against Shimoishi but dangerous against Kazuma.

However, it was far from safe. With the ippatsu win, Kazuma wins with Riichi/Ippatsu/Pinfu/Tanyao/Aka 2 for 12,000 plus a riichi stick.

And with that, Shimoishi ends up in 1st place and Sonoda greatly regretting his decision.

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Results

Game 239

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Game 2

Miura

February 10, Game 2
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s5_p11544

In S1-1, Miura is in 2nd place, 17,300 behind 1st place Tojo.

Miura starts out the hand at 3-shanten with a connected red 5p and a secured dora 7m. Early on, it was clear that 4th place dealer Futoshi wants to make a comeback, calling a south pon and a 123p chii in the first row for iishanten. For Miura, he adds a 7m to his hand, but still lags. At the start of his second row, Futoshi calls pon on the 1m and gets to tenpai on a 58m ryanmen, though he is furiten. Two turns later, he switches to a non-furiten 7m tanki.

Back to Miura, he is now iishanten for both seven pairs and a standard hand. If it is a standard hand, he has a 789m iipeikou secured. On his next draw, he gets to tenpai on the standard route and calls riichi on a west/5s shanpon.

Two turns later, Tojo calls a 678p chii and gets to tenpai on a 25p ryanmen.

Within the go-around, Futoshi discards the 5s and deals into Miura. Miura wins the hand with Riichi/Iipeikou/Dora 2/Aka 1 for 8,000.

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In S2-0, Miura is 3-shanten with a secured red 5m. Within the first four turns, he is already iishanten, enough progress that he was willing to discard an 8m dora. In the middle of the second row, Miura fills in a 4s kanchan and calls riichi on a 69s ryanmen. Two turns later, Futoshi discards the 9s trying to keep a ryanmen-ryanmen iishanten and deals into Miura. Miura wins the hand with Riichi/Pinfu/Aka 1/Ura 1 for 8,000, coming within 1,400 behind 1st place.

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Results

Game 240

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