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Guides

An awesome video guide from the internet. Common mistakes (2)

First of all, I want to show you a really good video guide that was created recently. The author is DdR_Dan, a player from US, who is staying consistently at 6d on tenhou, even got 7d in the past. Although it’s a little long, in my opinion it’

Guides

Common mistakes (1), plus my introduction

Hey there, I’m starfire, a.k.a amaika on tenhou.net. Some of you might have known me, some might not. I have played riichi since 2012. Now that I have become a decent player, 7d at the time posting this (even though I’m fully aware that I

Mahjong News

Good Players Club 7th Grand Champion Cup

Today’s the day; it’s time for Good Player Club’s 7th Grand Champion Cup. We’ve mentioned last year’s iteration in this blog. Our long-time friend Benjamin Boas is participating as part of the mahjong-loving association Good Player’s Club, home to other famous players like Akagi’

Mahjong News

Professional Mahjong Commentary on Mondo in English!

MondoTV have uploaded 2 videos with English commentary by mahjong researcher Benjamin Boas and mahjong author Ryan Morris. Benjamin’s contribrutions to the community should be fairly well known to everyone, and Ryan’s less so. Ryan Morris is the author of the excellent but sadly now defunct “Japanese Mahjong

Mahjong News

Totori-sensei 19 years old wins the first season of Tenhoui vs Renmei

Photo from Ben and Deniz This year JPML collaborated with Tenhou and hosted a 6 month long Tenhoui vs Renmei pro tournament. The first season used a Tenhou based ruleset with 50/20/0/70 uma, red fives, agari yame and tenpai yame. Final Playoff ResultsRankNameTenhoui #Total1Totorisensei 19sai11204.42Naoki SetokumaN/

Mahjong News

Tentative Top 16 results from ERMC2016.

Hi there, We saw a glitch occur on the ERMC website. We are publishing a table of the top 16 as we see them, with no claims on accuracy, quality, or perfection. 1[Mikhail LUGOVKIN](http://live.ermc2016.com/Home/PlayerAnalysis/594)137,5502 [Désirée HEEMSKERK](http://live.ermc2016.com/

Guides

Play Flexibly

Having finally joined the Twitter bandwagon [https://twitter.com/Muller_Mahjong] I recently had the chance to chat with Makoto Fukuchi about a tile efficiency question found in a book he edited [https://www.amazon.co.jp/麻雀-傑作「何切る」300選-G・ウザク/dp/4861998948]. With the hand on the bottom, it's

The Mahjong Meetup episode #7 broadcasts tomorrow

Tuesday, August 23rd, at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time The Mahjong Meetup will return. Dasuke will recap his mahjong travels in Japan. I’ll talk about running a live tile in person mahjong meetup and further refinements teaching riichi mahjong method. M-san rejoins us from The Los Angeles

tenhou

IORMC Qualifiers (USA / Canada)

The North American Riichi Mahjong Association is looking for players to field teams for the 2016 Interational Online Riichi Mahjong Competition. The nations of the United States and Canada are each looking to assemble teams for the November competition. The competition is hosted via Tenhou.net. So familiarity with Tenhou’

tenhou

Osamuko OTP Tournament

The 23rd of July will the next instalment of tournaments by the osamuko discord be delivered and this time it’s an Open Pair Tournament. Where each game will be a battle between two teams in the form of a double elimination tournament for maximum excitement. As we expect participants

Tournaments

PML Riichi Mahjong Open 2016

The Pacific Mahjong League (PML) hosts the first international PML Riichi Mahjong Open 2016 tournament in San Francisco, California. Join us for an intense weekend of riichi with the pros and compete for one of NARMA’s spots in the World Riichi Championship! Meet, greet and beat players from all

Online Mahjong

Osamuko Invitational

Hello there, next weekend will a few of us at osamuko discord arrange a team tournament because, well, yeah, way too few tournaments and leagues going on online right now. The format is 4 rounds of 4 games where the first three are an incomplete round robin and the final

WWYD video series

Hi gang, I’m creating a WWYD (What Would You Discard) video series and would like some creative ideas and feedback. Below is my first video attempt. I intend to add audio commentary. Besides examples I have come across myself, I would search the tenhou logs of other players, facebook

Tibet Rules video

This is a short 54 second video explaining ‘Tibet Rules’ mahjong teaching method. Any feedback, please comment either here or on YouTube.

Mahjong Parlor

Life as a mahjong parlor member

A long time ago we explained what a mahjong parlor is [https://osamuko.com/overview-of-mahjong-parlors-and-why-you-cant-really-win/]. Today we start a new column where we’ll delve further into it and analyze those mysterious creatures that dwell inside them. No, not the customers, but the people that work to keep the act

The Mahjong Meetup Episode #3

Is up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmrcV3ep4Bg If you have any suggestions for topics, if you’d like to be a guest (and what you would like to talk about), and questions/comments in general please go to this Google form.

The Mahjong Meetup Episode #2

Is up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr1OTXdk6IE]: If you have any suggestions for topics, if you’d like to be a guest (and what you would like to talk about), and questions/comments in general please go to this Google form.

Mahjong Teaching Method, Tibet Rules

A couple weeks ago, the USPML hosted a Mahjong booth at PAX EAST. Over the course of three days, with only space for four mahjong tables (three used for teaching), we ended up teaching over 350 people through one hour “How to play Mahjong” sessions. Throughout all of our teaching

The Mahjong Meetup episode #1 (#1.5?)

Is up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Please comment here if you have any suggestions for topics, if you’d like to be a guest (and what you would like to talk about), and questions/comments in general. Thank you! –Frenetic

The Mahjong Meetup returns tonight!

Sorry for the short notice but tonight Monday, May 2nd, at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time The Mahjong Meetup will return. Dasuke and I have been busy with our day jobs and other commitments, so we’re trying to broadcast when we have openings in our schedules. All

The Mahjong Meetup on Twitch.tv

The first episode of The Mahjong Meetup will air this Friday April 15th, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Dasuke and I will talk about our experiences at one of the few jansous outside of Japan, the recently formed NARMA, and a general call in show where you can

Guides

Yaku, Hai!: Riichi (& Ippatsu & Daburu Riichi)

In order to be able to build the best hands, you need to know both how to plan out your play with a hand, and how to execute that plan. This is the essence of hand development: taking that group of 13 useless tiles you start with, and using them

Yaku Anki Deck

I’ve made an Anki deck for studying the yaku, specifically their names and what the requirements are. You can find it on the Ankiweb site [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1277492877]. If you are interested in more similar decks or have feedback, please leave a comment!

Entertainment

Mahjong puns brought to you by Moku

Whoa, hold the pon! After keeping us waiting on pinzu and needles, the first episodes of Moku’s 4-koma are ready to riichi a wide audience! This is no 5-sou, it’s the truth! Read on for more! Episode 1: East Win [https://osamuko.com/content/images/2018/02/eastwin.

Tournaments

Upcoming tournaments

Rochester is right around the corner, we’ll have our usual reporting team present this March 12-13. If you’re there, ask for the Osamuko team :) After that, there will be a tournament run once again in the beautiful city of Montreal, QC (CAN). A classic 2-day weekend tournament this