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>Owata: Honestly, looking at this I do think "How did I stop myself from dealing in here?" But then I can appreciate past me's line of thought. The dealer's discard were nothing to sniff at.
>---: Pushing with a "surely this much is fine" attitude at this point is just human, I think.
>Owata: Agreed. If I'd been even a bit too naive, I would have dealt into dealer mangan, probably lost this hanchan, and then have delayed my tenhoui promotion by two weeks or so. I may not even have gotten tenhoui at all.
>---: So you're saying this East 1 was a watershed moment for you.
>Owata: Well, sanma has its ups and downs, and they're rough sometimes. To me this was an important round. The me at the time didn't realise that the 9s was a deal in tile, I only saw that in the haifu later on.
>---: Did you check immediately after promoting to tenhoui?
>Owata: Not quite. When I decided on writing this book and was looking for some haifu, I went to check this one.
>---: I see, so you picked this one because of that.
>Owata: Well, it's not just this round but also others that nicely show off my style. So I thought it would make for a good match to study. This and the promotion match where I bankrupted an opponent with the flow on my side* for an easy victory.
TN: He says 絶好調で here, so this phrasing feels right. We also see that Owata is a nyagger at heart, so I had to mention it.
>---: Ah. And if you hadn't avoided the deal in here, that win would have been meaningless.
>Owata: I wouldn't go so far as to call it meaningless, but I wouldn't have been promoted with it.
>---: I understand. Then let's move on to after you'd finished dropping your 9m triplet.