I PLAY RIICHI

Japanese Riichi Mahjong Pro Training and Strategy

I went pro. You can too. Select The Pro Exam for details.

If you are looking for other good strategy articles, resources, a background on the author and purpose of the site, or a way to reach them, try the other sections listed.

MOST RECENT UPDATE

  • Rules and Information

    This section of the website is relatively short, in comparison. It will cover the types of questions asked in the first parts of the Saikouisen Pro Exam. The first few sections of the exam are knowledge questions, covering rules, yaku, current top players, Saikouisen as an organization, and so on. Rules For rules, the current…

    Read the rest >

I Play Riichi

I went pro. You can too. Select The Pro Exam for details.

If you are looking for other good strategy articles, resources, a background on the author and purpose of the site, or a way to reach them, try the other sections listed.

Recent Posts:

  • Tenpai Acceptance

    Evaluating a hand to see what tiles get to you tenpai helps get through the dangerous “iishanten hell” state in as few turns as possible. While it becomes a rote exercise to look at a hand after drawing a tiles to determine if you can discard into tenpai, knowing the list of tiles in advance…

    Read the rest >

  • One-Away Efficiency

    This section covers choosing the discard or discards from a tenpai hand that give you the largest wait to win. This entails checking possible waits given a number of slightly different hand makeups. You should be familiar with an earlier Exam guide, Tenpai Acceptance, before you continue, as this guide uses the framework from that…

    Read the rest >

  • Tenpai Expansion

    This section covers choosing the discard or discards from a tenpai hand that give you the largest wait to win. This entails checking possible waits given a number of slightly different hand makeups. You should be familiar with an earlier Exam guide, Wait Determination, before you continue, as this guide uses the framework from that…

    Read the rest >