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=== Winning chance ===
=== 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 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.
Pressing players to defend will often lower your chance of winning. When a hand has a yaku other than riichi, declaring riichi will generally lower winrate by x70% to x80%.<ref>Miinin. ''Statistical Mahjong Strategy''.</ref> 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.
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.
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If [[abortive draw]]s are enabled, the hand will end in abortive draw when all four players declare riichi (after the 4th riichi declarer discards a tile).
If [[abortive draw]]s are enabled, the hand will end in abortive draw when all four players declare riichi (after the 4th riichi declarer discards a tile).
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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