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=== Winning chance === | === Winning chance === | ||
Pressing players to defend will lower your chance of winning. | 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== | |||
{{reflist}} | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||