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In mahjong, your wait is the tiles you need to win a hand. Sometimes, only a single tile will give the win. Other times, 3 or 4 different types of tiles can do the job. This week, the 18th week of the M-League 2025-26 regular season, we had both wide and narrow waits. In aContinue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 18: Wait”

Uchikawa Kotaro is a mahjong pro with the Japan Professional Mahjong League. He has played in M-League since 2019, joining the EX Furinkazan at the M-League 2025-26 draft. And right after that, he won the 2025 World Riichi Championship. This week, the 17th week of the M-League 2025-26 regular season, Uchikawa did something quite incredible,Continue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 17: Uchikawa”

Starting on Thursday, January 15, 2026, the “Mahjong Live” channel on ABEMA will be renamed “Mahjong 2”

In collaboration with World Riichi and the United States Professional Mahjong League, M-League will be hosting two events in the United States from June 26 to June 30. The first event will be held in Las Vegas from June 26 to June 28, while the second event will be in New York from June 29Continue reading “M-League To Host Events In Las Vegas, New York City In June 2026”

The calendar may have changed from 2025 to 2026, but the exciting M-League action hasn’t changed at all! In the 16th week of the M-League 2025-26 season, we watched as players won flushes and baimans and some incredible comebacks. And all this fighting is done for a chance to makes the semifinals, the finals andContinue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 16: New Year”

Even as 2025 winds down, it doesn’t mean that the M-League action winds down! In Week 15 of the M-League 2025-26 season, we had a lot of exciting surprises. From a bunch of baimans to comebacks to a player getting their first 1st of the season, everyone made sure that 2025 ended with a bang!Continue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 15: Year-Ender”

Though skill is a large part of mahjong, there is always the element of chance. From chance uradora to gambling on the chance at an uradora, sometimes you have to hope that the mahjong gods are smiling down on you to give you the best result. In the 14th week of the M-League 2025-26 season,Continue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 14: Chance”

We’re just past the halfway point of the season and the fight for the top 6 is really hot! Today, we’ll look at how each team is doing and figure out what each team can do to find success.

Addition is fundamental to mahjong. With the numbers, you need to combine them to get your final total. When you keep adding and adding fu and dora and yaku and han and points, it equals a big result and a big score. In the 13th week of the M-League 2025-26 season, we had a lotContinue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 13: Addition”

Mahjong is a game of numbers. The numbers 1 through 9 are the basic building blocks (or tiles, I guess) of the game. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands are points that are exchanged. Probabilities are behind every single decision. And all with four people around a table of 136 tiles. We have just started theContinue reading “M-League 2025-26 Week 12: Numbers”