Friday 5 December 2014

Thursday's High Stakes Mahjong Match

Yesterday evening we had a small game of mahjong to mentally prepare ourselves before finals. At the end of the south round, it felt like it could be anybody's game, and we were honestly unsure of who was even winning then (Though we knew Ray was in last simply because he only managed to win one hand at that point).

By the end of the night, I won more hands than anyone, but they were all extremely cheap. And since I paid into some 6-7 fan hands four times that night, I finished pretty low in the red. I discarded a risky tile to keep my Half Flush Little Three Dragons hand, and Michael took it for the win with his own Full Flush. Of course, the *very* next tile in the wall was a green dragon that Felix would have discarded as a safe tile...

Ray just couldn't catch the luck, and though he only fed three hands that night, he only won two, and the self-picked wins caught up to him, dragging him into last place.

Felix got really lucky that night, on no less than four hands, he drew both of his own flowers. Aside from that, he managed to win a lot of decent hands, and once stole the win off of Ray when they were waiting on the same winning tile.

Michael played as well as usual, never paying into more than he won. At one point in the west round, he was two tiles away from the rare 13-Way Thirteen Orphans hand, and just two hands later was waiting on one of two tiles for the Pearl Dragon hand. Even though he didn't make any limit hands this time, he definitely won out in the end!

FINAL SCORE
  • Felix   +16
  • Ray   -96
  • Chad   -64
  • Michael   +144