So Sou! So-So Dora Ro-sou!

We had our weekly Friday Mahjong game yesterday and it was quite an interesting game. Things seemed to start off fine for me during the first two rounds. I got myself into Tenpai and declared Riichi on both occasions but was pipped at the post both times. It was slightly disappointing but I didn't dwell on it too much. I was thinking, 'At least the tiles are coming my way, for a change'. I was beginning to hope that my run of bad luck was finally coming to an end. Come East Third round, though, it all went a bit pear-shaped...

First of all, lionintown managed to get a non-dealer Mangan Tsumo with, of all things, the use of a bloody Dead Wall draw tile. It's unbelievable how much the Dead Wall seems to love him. That hand cost me about 2,000 points. Then a little bit later, I manage get myself into Ii-shanten only for both lionintown and Scud to ron me off the discard tile (6-Sou). As luck would have it, the 6-Sou was the dora for that round and I ended up paying about 11,000 points in total. Finally, to top it all off, I had to pay 4,000 points a little bit later for being dealer on a Mangan Tsumo.

At the end, I was left with a paltry 1,600 points. It was another win for lionintown; which puts him above KC. I sure hope to hell that the tide will change soon and I start winning again. It's kind of demoralising losing so much...