Mahjong Techniques Explained #6

This video aims to explain Riichi Mahjong techniques in a short and concise video that hopefully helps people improve their game.
This video will focus on when to open your hand. Feel free to leave any questions in the comments!
00:39 Why open your hand
02:30 Opening your hand - Yakuhai pon
02:49 Opening your hand - Open tanyao
03:03 Opening your hand - Honitsu/Chinitsu
03:25 Opening your hand - Toitoi
03:56 Opening your hand - Playing with bad shapes
04:31 Opening your hand - Keiten
05:17 Opening your hand - Preventing ippatsu
05:58 Opening your hand - Shifting haitei
06:42 Asapin's 5 melding techniques
07:04 Dora Dora Dash
08:13 Kamicha going for a weird hand
09:05 Elongate the shape
10:20 Meld when cornered
11:18 Chasing after a riichi

[@misterpayah7723]

I really like you also including examples of Japanese pro players. The English-speaking mahjong world is missing out on so much good content just because of the language barrier.

[@ngrenyong7899]

Very informative! After watching your videos I finally reached my all time peak of adept!

[@kaikulimu]

Love this vid!

[@tenhoutei]

I have a notebook with notes from various mahjong books and online lessons. Your guides are always super valuable! I'd really love to see more about a topic you've touched on both in this and other videos -- playing around the idea that mahjong isn't a 1-versus-3 game. In this video, for instance, you talked about shifting haitei to the fourth place player to support them into potentially making the first place dealer kanburi into second place. In Mahjong Techniques Explained #4, you talked about having more options than just Push and Fold, and that there are also the options of Assist and Block. This is by far the most interesting part of mahjong to me and I'd love to hear more from you about the topic.

[@plzcme434]

Thanks for these videos. They really help building a strong basis for my games. An important topic would be how to play towards the ending of a round, especially considering keiten and exhaustive draws. I don't really know how to judge if going for keiten is worth the risk of pushing certain tiles.

[@nitro5247]

Thank you for this comprehensive video. It would seem I still have a lot to learn about this game, but I’m so happy to see more content creators help to break the language barrier so people like me can learn more. If possible, I’d love to see a video about when and how to decide what yaku to go for in a given scenario, or maybe common pitfalls for newer players. Thank you very much once again, and have a great day!

[@Waran-Ess]

Fantastic video! Very informative and easy to understand, as usual. After having a fellow player look at some of my games recently, I realized I had a problem: whenever I saw my haipai, unless there was a VERY obvious way to make a high-scoring open hand, I would almost always default to pursuing riichi. Going for riichi by default isn't _that_ bad, but I realized it was costing me a lot of flexibility. For reference, my call rate was hovering around 20% before this. I've since tried to think harder about calls, and to generally just call a bit more aggressively; so far I've actually found decent success with it. That same player helped me understand why calling more is important (as well as when / how to do it), and a lot of what he mentioned matches up with the tips in this video, so I'm glad to see I'm on the right track!

[@mTSOULI]

Thanks man, very informative 👍

[@AshersAesera]

I learned some neat things, thankya ^^

[@user-sz9or2ne5o]

Dont listen to this man nonsense. When you see a blue pon or a green chii, you have to click it, its a rule! Only click Skip if youre a chicken!

[@ervincoconut]

“Kan is also not recommended” - not in mahjong with EY 😂