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Game · 2025-26 Semifinal Series

4/21 Game 2

Kenji Katsumata finished 1st (+54.5pt). The game was decided in East 1: Kenji Katsumata tsumo 7,800, which moved Kenji Katsumata's expected points by +21.8.

1st-place probabilityat the start of each hand

0%25%50%75%100%East 1East 3South 3End● Kenji Katsumata● Sayaka Kayamori● Geki Shimoishi● Kazunori Takizawa0%25%50%75%100%East 1South 2End● Kenji● Sayaka● Geki● 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

HandsResultKenji Katsumata
1st-place chance
Sayaka Kayamori
1st-place chance
Geki Shimoishi
1st-place chance
Kazunori Takizawa
1st-place chance
Kenji Katsumata
Expected pt change
Sayaka Kayamori
Expected pt change
Geki Shimoishi
Expected pt change
Kazunori Takizawa
Expected pt change
East 1Kenji Katsumata tsumo 7,80024%26%25%25%+21.8-7.4-8.0-6.4
East 1, 1 honbaKenji Katsumata tsumo 6,00039%21%19%21%+21.7-9.4-5.8-6.5
East 1, 2 honbaSayaka Kayamori ron 2,000 from Kazunori Takizawa59%13%14%14%-1.1+6.4-0.4-4.9
East 2Exhaustive draw59%15%14%13%+2.9-1.7+0.1-1.2
East 3, 1 honbaExhaustive draw63%13%13%11%-0.4+1.9-6.7+5.2
East 4, 2 honbaKenji Katsumata tsumo 2,00064%14%8%14%+11.9-1.5-2.0-8.4
South 1Geki Shimoishi tsumo 12,00079%9%6%6%-14.5-9.1+36.6-13.0
South 2Sayaka Kayamori tsumo 12,00062%8%25%5%-13.1+36.7-13.0-10.6
South 2, 1 honbaGeki Shimoishi ron 1,000 from Sayaka Kayamori45%32%19%3%+4.9-6.1+1.3-0.2
South 3Exhaustive draw54%24%19%3%+1.1-4.3+5.6-2.4
South 3, 1 honbaGeki Shimoishi ron 1,500 from Kenji Katsumata54%20%23%3%-7.6-1.5+9.8-0.7
South 3, 2 honbaKenji Katsumata ron 1,000 from Geki Shimoishi45%21%32%3%+14.1-5.1-8.3-0.7
South 4Sayaka Kayamori ron 1,300 from Kazunori Takizawa66%13%18%2%+14.6+9.9-19.0-5.6

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