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Pressing players to defend will often lower your chance of winning. When a hand has a yaku other than riichi, declaring riichi generally lowers your winrate by around x70% to x80%.<ref>Miinin. ''Statistical Mahjong Strategy''.</ref> | Pressing players to defend will often lower your chance of winning. When a hand has a yaku other than riichi, declaring riichi generally lowers your winrate by around x70% to x80%.<ref>Miinin. ''Statistical Mahjong Strategy''.</ref> However, since riichi more-than-doubles your score (until mangan), declaring riichi offers better value under normal circumstances. If you don't care about the point boost, though, then dama is better. | ||
Hands which have an extremely poor wait (e.g single tile wait on dora) are so bad that riichi doesn't reduce their chance of winning by much. | Hands which have an extremely poor wait (e.g single tile wait on dora) are so bad that riichi doesn't reduce their chance of winning by much. | ||