Hi everyone, so this game was taken from my most recent stream, and the reason why I'm purposely covering this in another video It's because I think it's a very good illustrative example of when you should not rely on Tsuji as a means of defense and when that can actually harm your way of thinking. You're watching from the point of view of my opponent who is in first place in all us and I'm just going to speed through the first few discards because I want to focus on one very important misplay that he made at the end. Okay so over here he decides to Chi the 4M that Kamicha has thrown and he decides to cut his 1,3M block.
He decides to pawn the Haku here and cut the 1M. And now Toyman has declared Ritchie. So Toyman is the one who declared Ritchie and he is also the one in second place. So he pushes this 7M into Toyman.
And now he is in 10x waiting for 7s. Okay so as you can see here, Kamicha has just cheat a 4s showing one aka and he has just caught pawn on the 3s. So this will be important later and I'll explain why.
And he discards a 5s here. And now we've reached the critical moment of this hand. So what this player decided to do is he decided to cut the 8s here and his reasoning was probably he saw the 5s as a suji and the 5s was a safe tile that was thrown by this guy and it passed into his reach.
So he decided to test the 8s suji and as a result either into one mangan and another mangan which actually caused him to drop from first place all the way to last place so now let's analyze this moment in more detail so why is this as a bad play first of all he could have discarded the 1p here the 1p is also a one chance because he can see three of the two piece here right therefore one he is less dangerous. Second of all, 1P also doesn't deal into this player who is obviously pushing a hand. And here's the thing, if you consider this player's score distribution, this player is trying to catch me, who is in third place.
And if you look at the score gap, gap, this player is 4k9 away from me, from 3rd place. So he knows that this hand is most likely not going to be just 3k9, most likely it's going to be 8k. So what hands do you put him on?
You put him on hands like dora pair, tan yao with 3 dora, those kind of hands, which will allow him to overtake 3rd place. And 1p is also safe into myself, who is a 3rd place player, because I've pretty much shown that I've already folded based on my discards. So even if 1p deals c2 toiman, even if it's mangan swing for example it is still okay for him because he will end the game in second place so if you look at everybody's hands right you'll notice that the lower soso is all accounted for right this guy has put on three of the three s there's one here so three s is dead two s is also dead as you can see here there's four discarded one s is also dead right and he sees three of the four s right so what's missing is not lower soso what's missing is upper soso right as you can see here my ass there's two out right but you don't know where the other two are you don't see see a single 8s you don't see a single 7s so it's a very real possibility that this 8s might deal into hands like this shampoing 8s or like this kanchan 7 9s and especially at this stage of the game where it's your last turn all right these are very real hands that could be in either of your opponent's hands but there is a 1p here which is a far better discard and he puts him in tenpai and he didn't take it so yeah this is essentially what inspired me to make this video because i think the instructive moment here is that you can't always rely on Tsuji as a means of defense and if you do it will harm you and I just hope that when y'all watch this video y'all are actively aware of this and try not to make the same mistake if there are better tiles to defend with you should use those tiles instead anyway thanks for watching I hope you learned something and I'll see you in the next video