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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 40%. Since riichi more-than-doubles your score until reaching mangan, riichi generally has the better 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 40%. Since riichi more-than-doubles your score until reaching mangan (1 han from riichi doubles score, then extra han from ippatsu/uradora), riichi generally has the better expected value.


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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