The Great Riichi Mahjong Dilemma: Speed vs. Value

[@Ginto_O]

Good video!

[@Rox_R]

3:49 I really like you pointing out here that the 33s still had a purpose even though in this scenario we choose to cut it. I think a lot of intermediate players don’t have a lot of fluidity in their gameplans and completely miss that a tile or block can serve a purpose in case of certain scenarios but at the same time should be cut in the case of other scenarios, which make those tiles neither mandatory nor useless. Awesome video!

[@andrade9029]

Great luck at the end, thanks for the upload!

[@dieterpeter9024]

I am so happy to be able to watch your tutorials! Before I found your channel, I was stuck at Expert in Mahjong Soul and didn't understand what I was doing wrong. But now, I am still stuck at Expert, but at least now I understand why I play so mediocre

[@missingno_fgc]

2:41 Is there a particular reason to drop Nan over Pei here? It's my understanding that, all other factors being equal (tied score, all four copies live), you typically throw Shimocha's wind first and let Kamicha potentially Pon later, so I'm wondering if there's another reason to do the reverse that I didn't consider.

[@MrFeng]

Great catch! That would be my mistake as my mind was caught up deciding whether i should discard 1 of the honor or 5p there during the game. 😅

[@halley_lu]

Would we ask similar questions/make similar decisions if the "obvious hand upgrade" was ssk instead? What about iitsu, mentanpin, or sanankou for example?

[@MrFeng]

Sorry, can you elaborate a bit more about your question?

[@halley_lu]

@MrFeng How would the video change if we needed to consider other hand upgrades instead of honitsu?

[@MrFeng]

​@@halley_lu depending on the hand, it can change many ways. I did cover part of this concept previously in this video as well kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnvUq6miarh9g5osi=NE__AmTnk5b4lhAs

[@MrOmagaG]

Hi, there is one unrelated question I wanted to ask. There is the new version of mortal and some people said, that it is stronger than Naga. What is your opinion and which one will you use?

[@MrFeng]

You can call it bias. The nature of mortal's model is self learning while naga learns from strong players log. So mortal (and luckyj) can sometimes make moves that human cannot comprehend. I prefer to use a tool that i can understand. Because if i can't, i won't be able to learn. Deriving the wrong rationale from a particular decision can be disastrous especially if we have innately confirmation bias in us.

[@MrOmagaG]

@ Interesting take. Thank you for the reply!