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Game · 2025-26 Final Series

5/8 Game 1

Daisuke Suzuki finished 1st (+74.4pt). The game was decided in East 1, 1 honba: Daisuke Suzuki ron 16,000 from Aki Nikaido, which moved Daisuke Suzuki's expected points by +40.8.

1st-place probabilityat the start of each hand

0%25%50%75%100%East 1East 3South 2End● Daisuke Suzuki● Aki Nikaido● Naoki Setokuma● Kazunori Takizawa0%25%50%75%100%East 1East 4End● Daisuke● Aki● Naoki● Kazunori
The chance of finishing 1st, at the start of each hand (estimated by simulation). Shaded: the hand that decided this game.

Hand by handexpected pt change = how much the hand's result moved the expected final points

HandsResultAki Nikaido
1st-place chance
Naoki Setokuma
1st-place chance
Daisuke Suzuki
1st-place chance
Kazunori Takizawa
1st-place chance
Aki Nikaido
Expected pt change
Naoki Setokuma
Expected pt change
Daisuke Suzuki
Expected pt change
Kazunori Takizawa
Expected pt change
East 1Aki Nikaido tsumo 18,00025%24%27%25%+44.1-13.5-17.1-13.5
East 1, 1 honbaDaisuke Suzuki ron 16,000 from Aki Nikaido61%13%13%13%-40.5-0.9+40.8+0.6
East 2Exhaustive draw26%15%43%16%-4.8+2.8+4.5-2.5
East 2, 1 honbaDaisuke Suzuki ron 2,000 from Naoki Setokuma23%15%49%14%-0.6-11.8+13.4-1.0
East 3Daisuke Suzuki tsumo 12,00018%8%62%11%-9.2-6.4+24.0-8.4
East 3, 1 honbaKazunori Takizawa ron 5,200 from Aki Nikaido7%3%85%5%-13.0+0.6-1.3+13.8
East 4Daisuke Suzuki ron 3,900 from Kazunori Takizawa4%3%85%8%-0.7+0.3+7.8-7.3
South 1Kazunori Takizawa ron 8,000 from Naoki Setokuma2%2%93%3%-0.9-18.5+1.8+17.6
South 2Naoki Setokuma tsumo 12,0001%1%96%3%-12.7+26.5-5.5-8.2
South 2, 1 honbaDaisuke Suzuki tsumo 4,0000%3%92%5%-2.7-4.8+6.9+0.7
South 3Exhaustive draw0%0%98%2%+0.5+2.5-1.6-1.3
South 4, 1 honbaAki Nikaido tsumo 5,2000%0%98%2%+37.7-22.0-0.9-14.8

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