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6/29/2025, 10:48:50 AM
>Pros of honitsu
>It's 3 hand closed and still 2 han when open, so with dora and yakuhai it can easily get into mangan+ value range.
>Cons of honitsu
>It's easy to read so the other players can easily avoid discarding your winning tiles. There's also an entire suit you cannot accept into your hand, so as a closed hand it's slow.
>With this in mind, it's good to aim for honitsu when you have at least 2 blocks of honour or terminal pairs that make your honitsu callable.
>No dora
>1123479p40s1155z
>From this hand we can cut 0s even though it's part of a ryanmen.
>dora 3p
>13p1134455679s55z
>This hand can easily call 1s and 5z, so we can drop the dora-containing kanchan.
>On the other hand,
>1244566889p40s77z
>This haipai has separated shapes, ponning 4p or 6p doesn't advance shanten, and ponning 8p leaves 9p as an isolated tile. It's difficult to recommend honitsu here.
>Therefore, even if you can call Chun you shouldn't go for honitsu and cut 1p (which doesn't reduce acceptance).
>It's 3 hand closed and still 2 han when open, so with dora and yakuhai it can easily get into mangan+ value range.
>Cons of honitsu
>It's easy to read so the other players can easily avoid discarding your winning tiles. There's also an entire suit you cannot accept into your hand, so as a closed hand it's slow.
>With this in mind, it's good to aim for honitsu when you have at least 2 blocks of honour or terminal pairs that make your honitsu callable.
>No dora
>1123479p40s1155z
>From this hand we can cut 0s even though it's part of a ryanmen.
>dora 3p
>13p1134455679s55z
>This hand can easily call 1s and 5z, so we can drop the dora-containing kanchan.
>On the other hand,
>1244566889p40s77z
>This haipai has separated shapes, ponning 4p or 6p doesn't advance shanten, and ponning 8p leaves 9p as an isolated tile. It's difficult to recommend honitsu here.
>Therefore, even if you can call Chun you shouldn't go for honitsu and cut 1p (which doesn't reduce acceptance).
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