From a natural procrastinator

Oh hey, I think I should put the date here. 2025-7-7.

I will do it.

But when?

As you might know, I based in Rochester, NY. The time zone here is Eastern Time. However, you might also notice that all the posts, has been written and published in the midnight so far.

I recognize myself as one of the top tier procrastinator who always test the limit. You know what, maybe I am just a night person: I do appreciate the dark environment that makes me focus on the thing in front of me.

Okay, enough talking: here is the updates happening to the site.

• The Social media link (X) is linked to the bottom of the page, while the irrelevant buttons got removed.

• Posts now have their category: this one belongs to 'Daily Blog'.

Starting from today, I'm going to put a WWYD here. These are the game screenshots I encountered during my stream. I am going to explain my choice, and I'm looking forward to join the discussion and hearing from you one day! (Try out the 'comment' section in the bottom of the post) [Note: I am obviously not the best player by any means, so feel free to point out the parts in my explanation that doesn't really make sense, I'm really looking forward to learning from you as well.]

WWYD

Ranked - Gold Room - South 3 - 0 Repeat - North Seat - Turn 2 - Dora 5M

Getting into South 3, with the point situation being: currently last place with 3500 point short from toimen (player across), this is not the most ideal starting hand we can see. First let's quickly analyze the two main different routes.

Standard hand: 4 shanten (4-away until tenpai)

Seven pair: 3 shanten (3-away until tenpai)

Very intuitively this hand seems quicker if we are taking the seven pair route. Or at least we should consider seven pairs while we are finding our way to the standard hand.

Looking at the current hand shape, 47m are both lone tiles; 12p penchan with 556p can be seen as two blocks for standard hand; 233s can be seen as one block, and 7s being a lone tile; red dragon pair is the only pair that does not have part of it used in a ryanmen shape. With the two blocks in pinzu, one in souzu and one in chun, we don't even have five blocks yet. This becomes a hard situation where you need to balance between those needs of our hand.

In terms of 'need', I mean our need for value, since it should be the first priority given our standing: on the ladder you don't want to get a fourth. Our hand don't have value -- it has potentials, but that's all it has. The 47m is capable of absorbing two doras, if we are lucky enough, and we don't see them yet. In the other perspective, if the red dragon came out now and we pon, the hand is only looking at a 1/30 value, any extra value is a bit of a stretch.

We are not opening, so seven pairs.

If we are going for seven pairs, The choice is among 4m, 7m, 1p, 2p, 2s, 7s, and green dragon.

MY ANSWER IS BELOW HERE> IF YOU NEED MORE TIME, DON'T SCROLL FURTHER <

My choice is discarding 7s here.

Thinking process is by getting rid of the wrong answers.

4m, 7m: Those two are close to the dora 5m. Think about this, if you discarded 4m, and you drew a 2m or 3m or another 4m, you will feel sad. It's a little bit better for the 7m side, since the direct ryanmen for the dora (6m draw) can be utilized by 4m as well, but keeping those two tiles for the potential of accepting 2 doras is important for us. Getting two dora can make this hand openable, with a yakuhai+dora2 = 3/30 == 3900 value (at least ronning anyone/tsumo will make us enter all-last as the 3rd place). So no, no discarding those two.

1p, 2p: Those two, although is a poor 3p penchan wait, but is taking one step back in standard hand shanten, so no.

2s: similarly, losing 14s ryanmen is not acceptable.

Green dragon: I think most of my thought is debating around if to discard the green dragon or not. Indeed, pure efficiency wise, green dragon seems like a snap decision. However, considering the current round situation, green dragon discard might cause the whole game go straight into the all last with us being the 4th place.

My reasoning comes as such:

• Dealer is at 33000, kami is at 30900, which is within a 1/50 tsumo range. That's good enough incentives for both dealer and kami to prioritize speed in their hands -- dealer got to continue being dealer/ kami being 1st place entering all last.

• Toimen is our direct competitor, they are going to be dealer if the dealership passes. They don't have incentive to go quick, but they still have their dealership.

• Out of all the seven doras, I see none.

• Toimen taking the lead discarding South, which is their double yakuhai, meaning they have better tiles in their hand.

• We are slow, discarding green dragon is not nitro boosting us.

• If we get green pair, we are one step closer to the 3 han dream.

• If needed, green is foldable material.

• If someone pons green dragon, it's most likely that the game is proceeding to all last with me being 4th place.

Thus, although discarding 7s loses us 6789s to proceed shanten for standard hand, it's not that bad because we are not losing any dora acceptance.

Please let me know your thought on this. I really appreciate people's ideas, and I will reply!

Research

Not really sure what I can write about the research, but it turns out it's a promised section from yesterday's post. I will think about it and definitely will write something tomorrow.

Picture of the day

There's a cute shiny bug that got on my car today. They seems to enjoy the ride. (I released them of course)