so I've been playing mahjong on ronron recently, a JP client with a lot of pros. last night I thought I'd try 3-player sanma for the first time on it to see how it'd go.
first off I got pit against a pro player, in this case, Kitagawa Yuuta, who is a 1-dan player in JPML. neither he nor I was ready for what was about to happen.
I was the starting dealer. I want to go fast and quickly win, but nobody dropped any tiles I could call. instead, I just drew everything, which meant...
so that's cool, I drew suuankou, four concealed triplets, a yakuman, as dealer, on a platform that doesn't have tsumo loss, leading to the very fun score of 24,000 points from the two players for an easy +48,000.
so I got lucky, surely that won't happen again, right? let's see how the second hand went.
and with that I got a second yakuman, this time directly off the non-pro at my table, a lovely daisangen, big three dragons, for yet another +48,000.
and just like that, I had back-to-back yakuman, as dealer, and the game instantly ended. the pro player at my table could do nothing but watch as I lucked out in a way that is basically inconceivable. my elo went up by over 100, which is also truly unheard of.
I don't think I've ever had a score in mahjong this high before, and I'm not sure I ever will again.
