Sasaki Hisato (KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club) won five hands, dealt in twice for 5,200 in all, and took game 1 on table B by 17,400. Takamiya Mari won game 2 on the same table with the last three hands of the night, ending with an 8,000 off a player who had folded. Round 33 of the 2026-27 regular season, Monday, November 9, gave Fight Club 122.2 points and second place. On table A, Akutsu Shota (KADOKAWA Sakura Knights) won game 1 without dealing in once, and Sano Hinako (Sega Sammy Phoenix) hit a in game 2, the only hand above in four games, to put Phoenix back in the top six. Nakabayashi Kei (U-NEXT Pirates) played both table A games, finished fourth in both, and Pirates dropped out of the top six.
Game 1: Akutsu (Sakura Knights) +65.8 on table A, Sasaki (Fight Club) +65.3 on table B. Game 2: Sano (Phoenix) +71.7 on table A, Takamiya (Fight Club) +56.9 on table B.
Results at a glance
| Game | Place | Player | Team | pt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1st | Akutsu Shota | KADOKAWA Sakura Knights | +65.8 |
| 1A | 2nd | Takeuchi Genta | Sega Sammy Phoenix | +20.5 |
| 1A | 3rd | Sonoda Ken | Akasaka Drivens | -22.0 |
| 1A | 4th | Nakabayashi Kei | U-NEXT Pirates | -64.3 |
| 1B | 1st | Sasaki Hisato | KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club | +65.3 |
| 1B | 2nd | Setokuma Naoki | TEAM RAIDEN | +7.9 |
| 1B | 3rd | Nagai Kosuke | EX Furinkazan | -19.2 |
| 1B | 4th | Shimoishi Geki | BEAST X | -54.0 |
| 2A | 1st | Sano Hinako | Sega Sammy Phoenix | +71.7 |
| 2A | 2nd | Shirinashihama Wataru | KADOKAWA Sakura Knights | +9.1 |
| 2A | 3rd | Suzuki Taro | Akasaka Drivens | -29.8 |
| 2A | 4th | Nakabayashi Kei | U-NEXT Pirates | -51.0 |
| 2B | 1st | Takamiya Mari | KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club | +56.9 |
| 2B | 2nd | Suzuki Daisuke | BEAST X | +8.6 |
| 2B | 3rd | Katsumata Kenji | EX Furinkazan | -22.2 |
| 2B | 4th | Hagiwara Masato | TEAM RAIDEN | -43.3 |
Table A, game 1: Akutsu's five wins and one assist
Akutsu Shota (KADOKAWA Sakura Knights) won the first hand for 1,000 off Nakabayashi Kei's (U-NEXT Pirates) , and the kinmaweb match report spends a page on how. He called off an early discard, then declined to a 9s from the dealer on turn four because the pair was the dealer's and a against Nakabayashi. When Nakabayashi's riichi came he cut that pair, folded into a 3s , and caught him. As dealer in east 2 he riichi'd with two and drew it: riichi, tsumo, , two dora, 4,000 all. In east 4 he sat on reaching tenpai, riichi'd when the wait improved, and tsumo'd 2,000/4,000. He had 47,000 going into the south round.
Then he gave a hand away on purpose. In south 1 Nakabayashi, last on 4,800, was building a , and Takeuchi Genta (Sega Sammy Phoenix) was dealer. Akutsu fed Nakabayashi two tiles, the report says, because a win there would end Takeuchi's dealer turn and a player on 4,800 couldn't threaten him. Takeuchi read the from the order of Nakabayashi's , pushed the dora past the , and Nakabayashi dealt in on for 5,800. Takeuchi then tsumo'd 4,000 all with riichi, and an , and a 700/1,300 in south 2 put him 1,100 ahead.
South 3 was the decision of the game. Akutsu pon'd a south from Takeuchi on turn two. Cutting the red 5p would have given him a 1,000-point tenpai, which wouldn't pass Takeuchi. He cut 7s instead to keep the red five, south plus red for 2,000, pon'd 8s straight after, and was tenpai on 5-6p for exactly enough. Nakabayashi, dealer and on zero, riichi'd on a . Akutsu pushed two tiles outside on the way to his last draw. His reasoning, per the report: not enough suji had come through to make folding worth it, and four visible copies of a neighbouring tile made a bad-shape riichi likelier. The last draw was his: south, a red five, 700/1,300. In the both leaders were tenpai for the top, and Nakabayashi, still in riichi, dealt Akutsu the 1,000 that ended it. Nakabayashi dealt in five times and finished on -4,300, -64.3. M Data Lab's model puts the decisive hand at east 2, Akutsu's 4,000 all, worth +32.6 to his expected score.
Table B, game 1: Sasaki's five wins and the 5s he chose
The kinmaweb match report calls it a perfect game, with two small deal-ins to Nagai as the asterisk: five wins and 45,300 at the end. Sasaki Hisato (KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club) riichi'd on turn four in the second hand on a in the dora suit. Three dora came out after it. Setokuma Naoki (TEAM RAIDEN), dealer, couldn't hold the tile, and Sasaki took 5,200 with two red fives, plus the and stick. He dodged Nagai Kosuke's (EX Furinkazan) dora-triplet riichi with a 500/1,000 in east 2.
Setokuma took the middle of the game back with three hands in east 3, east 4 and south 1: 2,000 and 3,900 off Nagai and 2,000 off Shimoishi Geki (BEAST X). Sasaki dealt 2,300 to Nagai in south 1 with one . His riichi, tsumo, for 1,000/2,000 in south 2 kept him in front, and the two deal-ins to Nagai, that 2,300 and a 2,900 later, were the only tiles he paid all game. Setokuma was 7,300 behind going into south 3, 27,900 against 35,200. Sasaki, dealer, riichi'd on a single red 5s rather than a 4s. He said in the post-game interview, as the report quotes it, that the more he looked at the river, the more the 5s looked like a tile someone would cut. He drew the fourth 3p and declared a , adding a dora and an ura dora to the price. Setokuma pushed a wait with confirmed. Nagai, third and 900 ahead of Shimoishi, drew an 8s that confirmed and 8,000, and cut the dora west to keep going. Shimoishi had nothing safe left and cut one of his two 5s: riichi, , a dora, a red five, an ura dora, a dealer , 12,000. In the all-last Nagai, dealer, had no fold left by the report's account, and Sasaki's dama pinfu took the second 4s he cut for 1,000. Shimoishi never won a hand: 6,000 at the end, -54.0, and three fourths in a week. M Data Lab's model puts the decisive hand at south 3, Sasaki's 12,000 off Shimoishi, worth +24.4 to his expected score.
Table A, game 2: Sano's four ura dora
Nobody won more than 5,200 in the first twelve hands, and six of the game's sixteen were draws. Sano Hinako (Sega Sammy Phoenix) dealt into the first win of the game, 5,200 with three honba to Nakabayashi's tanki, and got it back in pieces. A 2,000 all with two red fives from a in east 4. Then a 2,000 off Suzuki Taro (Akasaka Drivens), Taro to the league and in this post, in south 1, where she into tenpai against two riichi and pushed two tiles, one of them not through against the dealer. In south 2 she had pinfu with a high-side tenpai against Shirinashihama Wataru's (KADOKAWA Sakura Knights) dealer riichi, held the dora and cut a safe tile instead of pushing it, and drew the high-side tile the next turn. The hand was a draw and Shirinashihama's riichi turned out to be .
The came in south 2 with three honba. Sano broke a on turn three to build a better shape, riichi'd with pinfu and two red fives, and Nakabayashi, tenpai on with only unsafe tiles to choose from, pushed one outside suji into her. Riichi, pinfu, two red fives, and four ura dora: baiman, 16,000, plus 900 for the honba. That put her on 47,900. Shirinashihama's riichi, , tsumo 2,000/4,000 in south 3 took him to second and cost her 2,000. A 5,800 east-and-honitsu off Taro in the all-last made it 51,700. Nakabayashi finished fourth again, on 9,000, and Pirates lost 115.3 on the night. M Data Lab's model puts the decisive hand at south 2 with three honba, Sano's 16,000 off Nakabayashi, worth +45.9 to her expected score, the biggest swing of the night by its count.
Table B, game 2: Takamiya's three in a row, Hagiwara's fold
Hagiwara Masato (TEAM RAIDEN) had eight fourths in ten games this season and no win, by the kinmaweb match report's count. For most of this game he looked set to end it. He dodged Takamiya Mari's (KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club) dealer riichi with a 700/1,300 in east 1, and in south 1 with three honba he pon'd into a chun-only hand and tsumo'd 300/500 with four riichi sticks on the table, 6,000 in all, for the lead. Suzuki Daisuke (BEAST X), Daisuke from here since two Suzukis played, was last at the time. He tsumo'd a dealer mangan in south 2, riichi, a dora and a red five, 4,000 all, and led. Takamiya answered with riichi, tsumo, pinfu and two dora for 2,000/4,000, then a 700/1,300 in south 3 after declining to pon the so she could riichi.
The all-last: Katsumata Kenji (EX Furinkazan), dealer and last, riichi'd first. Hagiwara was 3,900 behind Daisuke for the top, a 1,000/2,000 tsumo or a 3,900 ron away. He folded, cutting all three tiles of a concealed triplet of east. Takamiya pushed two dangerous tiles from into a penchan tenpai and sat dama: , two dora and a red five, 8,000. Hagiwara, folding against the dealer, cut a suji of a tile Takamiya had just pushed, and it was hers. She said in the post-game interview, as the report quotes it, that the push felt far too scary but she had nothing else to cut. Takamiya +56.9, Daisuke +8.6, Hagiwara -43.3 and fourth for the ninth time. M Data Lab's model puts the decisive hand at south 4, Takamiya's 8,000 off Hagiwara, worth +41.5 to her expected score.
Standings after round 33
| # | Team | pt | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KADOKAWA Sakura Knights | +429.5 | 50 |
| 2 | KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club | +252.5 | 50 |
| 3 | TEAM RAIDEN | +132.2 | 50 |
| 4 | Akasaka Drivens | +49.4 | 50 |
| 5 | BEAST X | -26.1 | 50 |
| 6 | Sega Sammy Phoenix | -69.4 | 50 |
| 7 | U-NEXT Pirates | -126.1 | 50 |
| 8 | Shibuya ABEMAS | -153.3 | 48 |
| 9 | EARTH JETS | -189.8 | 48 |
| 10 | EX Furinkazan | -298.9 | 50 |
By team on the night: Fight Club +122.2, Phoenix +92.2, Sakura Knights +74.9, Raiden -35.4, Furinkazan -41.4, BEAST X -45.4, Drivens -51.8, Pirates -115.3. Shibuya ABEMAS and EARTH JETS had the night off. Fight Club pass Raiden into second, 177.0 behind Sakura Knights, who gained 74.9 without Okada Sayaka or Hori Shingo playing. Phoenix, eighth on Friday after four straight fourths, are back in sixth. Pirates are seventh, 56.7 behind them. Setokuma still leads the individual table at +503.8 from 13 games. Sasaki is up to fifth at +198.3. Nakabayashi's two fourths dropped him from sixth to fifteenth, from +165.6 to +50.3.
| Team | Semifinals | Title |
|---|---|---|
| KADOKAWA Sakura Knights | 92% | 23% |
| KONAMI Mahjong Fight Club | 82% | 15% |
| TEAM RAIDEN | 66% | 9% |
| Akasaka Drivens | 72% | 14% |
| BEAST X | 51% | 5% |
| Sega Sammy Phoenix | 58% | 9% |
| U-NEXT Pirates | 58% | 10% |
| Shibuya ABEMAS | 48% | 6% |
| EARTH JETS | 39% | 4% |
| EX Furinkazan | 33% | 4% |
This is the first recap with M Data Lab's odds in it, so there is no earlier table to move against. The line it draws: by its count Raiden, third on points, sit at 66% for the semifinals behind Drivens' 72%, and Phoenix and Pirates are level at 58%.
Three things to take to your own table
Feed the player who can't hurt you. Akutsu was 22,000 clear in south 1 and Nakabayashi, in , was building a honitsu. Akutsu fed him manzu to end the dealer's hand. Nakabayashi couldn't catch him from 4,800. The dealer could. When you lead, check who can still catch you before you check who is closest to winning the hand.
Pick the wait the table will cut. Sasaki took a single red 5s over a kanchan 4s because his own river made the 5s look safe to the other three. Three players pushed into that riichi and one of them cut the 5s. Get the baseline from the calculator, then look at your own river and ask which wait the other three will read as safe.
Fold against everyone still in the hand. Hagiwara folded correctly against the dealer's riichi and dealt into Takamiya's dama instead. Takamiya had pushed two tiles from one-shanten, which told the table she was playing, and the suji of her push was her wait. When two players are in a hand, your safe tiles are the ones safe against both.
Sources
Results and pt from kinmaweb's monthly results page, with one correction: the page lists Suzuki Daisuke at +8.9 in game 2B, which leaves the game's four scores 0.3 above zero. The text report's result line, jankaku's 28,600 and the ranking page all give +8.6, used here. Hand-by-hand from kinmaweb's text reports for table A, game 1, table B, game 1, table A, game 2 and table B, game 2, and its match reports on Akutsu's balance, Sasaki's three hits, Sano's baiman and Hagiwara's fold. Values cross-checked against jankaku's reports for table A and table B. Standings from kinmaweb's ranking page, updated November 9. Decisive hands, swings and semifinal odds from M Data Lab's odds page and its game pages for table A, game 1, table B, game 1, table A, game 2 and table B, game 2, rebuilt after the night's last game. There was no official highlight video for November 9 on the league's channel when this went live.
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