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 === Winning chance ===
-Pressing players to defend will lower your chance of winning. If a hand has a yaku other than riichi, declaring riichi will generally lower your winrate by about x4/5. Since riichi more-than-doubles your score until reaching mangan (1 han from riichi doubles score, then potential extra han from ippatsu/uradora), when you are below mangan, riichi will generally has a higher expected value.
+Pressing players to defend will lower your chance of winning. If a hand has a yaku other than riichi, declaring riichi will generally lower your winrate by about x80%. Meanwhile, riichi more-than-doubles your score until reaching mangan. Under normal conditions, and when below mangan, riichi's score bonus will far outweigh dama's win rate boost.
 If you don't care about points, but you do care about winning, you should dama. As mentioned above, if you are in the lead by a large amount, dama.