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Pressing players to defend will lower your chance of winning. Assuming a dama hand has a yaku (i.e. it can ron), declaring riichi will generally lower your winrate by about 40%. Therefore, if winning matters and the extra score does not matter you should dama. Also, with valuable hands (mangan/haneman or above), dama is usually better.
Pressing players to defend will lower your chance of winning. Assuming a dama hand has a yaku (i.e. it can ron), declaring riichi will generally lower your winrate by about 40%. Therefore, if winning matters and the extra score does not matter you should dama. Also, with valuable hands (mangan/haneman or above), dama is usually better.


A hand which has 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.


== Oikake riichi ==
== Oikake riichi ==
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