Monday (February 23)

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Game 1

Kurosawa

February 23, Game 1, E4-1
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s5_p10050

In E4-1, Kurosawa is in 2nd place, just 2,200 behind 1st place dealer Takizawa.

Kurosawa starts out the hand pairing up the 1s dora to get to 2-shanten. By her second turn, she gets to iishanten. Filling in a 5m kanchan on turn 5, Kurosawa gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 1s/1p shanpon.

To her left, Okada already has a white dragon triplet and gets to iishanten during the ippatsu round. In the middle of the second row, Okada calls a 456p chii and gets to tenpai on a 5m kanchan. A turn later, Okada improves to a 58m ryanmen.

In the third row, Kurosawa draws the dora 1s and wins the hand. With the uradora flip, Kurosawa’s 1s becomes double dora for a huge upgrade. Kurosawa wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Dora 3/Ura 3 for 4,000+100/8,000+100.

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Takizawa

February 23, Game 1, S4-1
Video: https://abema.tv/video/episode/444-1_s5_p8556

In S4-1, Takizawa is the dealer in 3rd place, 15,900 behind 1st place Kurosawa. Takizawa starts out the hand at 2-shanten with a secured red 5m. By turn 3, Takizawa gets to iishanten. On turn 5, Takizawa draws a red 5s and gets to a ryanmen-ryanmen iishanten, guaranteed pinfu and mangan minimum if he calls riichi. Towards the end of the second row, Takizawa gets to tenpai and calls riichi on a 47s ryanmen. On his very next draw, he gets the 4s and wins the hand. With an uradora hit, Takizawa wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Pinfu/Aka 2/Ura 1 for 6,000+100 all.

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Results

Game 261

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Game 2

Fighting Start

February 23, Game 2, E1-0

In E1-0, Takamiya is the starting dealer and starts out at 4-shanten with a pair of red dragons and a red 5s. In the first row, she draws a third red dragon and gets to 2-shanten by the end of the row. Quickly in the second row, Takamiya fills in a 2s kanchan, upgrades to a ryanmen-ryanmen iishanten, then gets to tenpai a turn later. She calls riichi and waits on a 69s ryanmen. In the middle of the third row, Takamiya draws the 9s and wins the hand. Takamiya wins with Riichi/Tsumo/Red Dragon/Aka 1 for 4,000 all.

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Results

Game 262

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