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6/28/2025, 4:10:33 PM
>Ryanmen with pair = 10 tiles
>The strongest of blocks. It's almost guaranteed to become a complete block, and you can pon with it as well.
>This list is ordered from least to most valuable block shape. If you choose blocks according to this list, you'll have wide acceptance and good shapes.
>When do pairs become complete groups
>To become closed triplets, pairs can only accept 2 tiles. When those are discarded, they become even worse. It's better to keep isolated tiles (even non-manzu terminals) over such bad pairs.
>Dora 2p
>1199m24568p44067s
>This hand becomes iishanten upon cutting 2p or 8p, so many people will just cut 8p. However, if one of the manzu pairs has a tile already discarded, I recommend dropping that pair instead and going back to 2shanten.
>Even if dropping 8p is iishanten, that iishanten has 3 pairs and so can accept at most 6 tiles to get into tenpai. That tenpai may be easy to win, but if useful tiles are cut before then this hand cannot call them, which makes the hand shape very weak.
>We can see that the hand is likely to only reach tenpai by endgame, and then may only have a shanpon with 1 tile left.
>If you quickly shift your mind into mawashi mode and drop a pair, you'll note that any pinzu draw will be useful. With 2 blocks in pinzu and 2 in souzu you'll have wide acceptance and it's easy to get good shapes.
>West seat, 4th turn, dora 9p, 1m is once discarded
>11m34577p1306799s
>This, too, is a hand where you should drop your manzu pair. I'm sure there are people that would cut 7p or 9s, but with the next useful draw they'd be left with a difficult hand to play.
>Rather than expecting to draw the last 1m, let the 7p or 9s pair be your head and hope for your pinzu or souzu shape to develop. Your hand will be more flexible, and on the next useful draw you can easily cut the second 1m.
>Dropping the 1m pair also makes your pond stronger, and when you riichi your opponents will find it hard to fight back.
>The strongest of blocks. It's almost guaranteed to become a complete block, and you can pon with it as well.
>This list is ordered from least to most valuable block shape. If you choose blocks according to this list, you'll have wide acceptance and good shapes.
>When do pairs become complete groups
>To become closed triplets, pairs can only accept 2 tiles. When those are discarded, they become even worse. It's better to keep isolated tiles (even non-manzu terminals) over such bad pairs.
>Dora 2p
>1199m24568p44067s
>This hand becomes iishanten upon cutting 2p or 8p, so many people will just cut 8p. However, if one of the manzu pairs has a tile already discarded, I recommend dropping that pair instead and going back to 2shanten.
>Even if dropping 8p is iishanten, that iishanten has 3 pairs and so can accept at most 6 tiles to get into tenpai. That tenpai may be easy to win, but if useful tiles are cut before then this hand cannot call them, which makes the hand shape very weak.
>We can see that the hand is likely to only reach tenpai by endgame, and then may only have a shanpon with 1 tile left.
>If you quickly shift your mind into mawashi mode and drop a pair, you'll note that any pinzu draw will be useful. With 2 blocks in pinzu and 2 in souzu you'll have wide acceptance and it's easy to get good shapes.
>West seat, 4th turn, dora 9p, 1m is once discarded
>11m34577p1306799s
>This, too, is a hand where you should drop your manzu pair. I'm sure there are people that would cut 7p or 9s, but with the next useful draw they'd be left with a difficult hand to play.
>Rather than expecting to draw the last 1m, let the 7p or 9s pair be your head and hope for your pinzu or souzu shape to develop. Your hand will be more flexible, and on the next useful draw you can easily cut the second 1m.
>Dropping the 1m pair also makes your pond stronger, and when you riichi your opponents will find it hard to fight back.
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