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cartouche7 New user 70 Posts |
Hello,
If some of you know about the Japanese game of Mahjong, maybe you will appreciate this Japanese series about mahjong cheaters. The mahjong played in japan is different of the Chinese mahjong, the true name of the Japanese version is Riichi, this is a strategic game. Here is the link for watching this series. http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/sea......etsuya/1 Those move where really used by Japanese cheaters. And I believe you can find some information about marked tiles in Steve forte's book. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
I have never played but I have watched many very high stakes games in action. I used to pick up a pal of mine who was a Chinaman from a game and drive him to the poker club. My friend is dead now and I don't see the games any longer. I met the Chinaman in prison and he was in there for trying to buy a casino and attempting to bribe the Gaming Commission to do so. There was lot of dough in the little room above a little Chinese restaurant in the what we call the China Quarter. The game is also played in a csino by me but the noise they make slamming them down gets on my nerves.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts |
Sorry, but where, in the UK is there a China quarter? C'mon mate. Seriously.
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AMcD Inner circle stacking for food! 3078 Posts |
Ever been in London?
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cartouche7 New user 70 Posts |
Just for precision, the mahjong played by chinese is more a hazardous game than the game in the video. It's not the same game at all.
Here some videos of gambling move: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8o5ryA8wOs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsD1wIMUWog&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4GkPcZ6Xi4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6moCVZUsCmI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_Ab55nKqU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkwNS27SYdI&feature=related It's incredible. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Five minutes from a little restaurant bar in Birmingham, St Pauls Square, in The Jewellery Quarter, http://stirlingsbar.co.uk/news--whats-on if you want a bet mate.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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Cagliostro Inner circle 2478 Posts |
I know nothing about Japanese Mahjong but some might find this article of interest.
http://davidhurley.articlealley.com/is-i......008.html Quote:
Is It Really Cheating? The Japanese Mahjong Thumb-rub Explained! |
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poonchingyip Elite user Canada 419 Posts |
I play Chinese Mahjong regulary, so this is actually quite interesting to me. =)
- Arthur |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Personally I would not dream of messing with the Chinamen and their game. I have seen what happens if you do in the casino I refer to above.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/aug/03......thompson
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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Tony45 Veteran user 384 Posts |
I used to play a few games with the Oriental cards years ago, they were small and made of very stiff plastic. I was partners with this Korean kid for a while on a game we had on W35th street in NY and he taught me the game and we used to play with 4 of us, just for small money but it was a fun game. I remember it was mainly pictures of flowers and birds, lol.
Another place I worked at they played pi gow tiles and this was strictly Chinese and they played for serious money. A friend of mine from Pell street had a piece of the game and he put a 21 game in the back room for the guys who brought their girlfriends and sent them back there to play. Me and this kids girl were dealing it and we made good money, it was only like a $50 limit game but it turned him a decent profit. this kid was nuts though, I went with him to AC a few times and we wouldnt be there for 1/2 an hour and he would be stuck 20 dimes, maniac. |
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AMcD Inner circle stacking for food! 3078 Posts |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts |
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On 2012-03-05 20:55, tommy wrote: Fair enough, am not so familiar with Brum. But AMcD, I am FROM London, it's called Chinatown. |
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cartouche7 New user 70 Posts |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
The first Chinese resturant to open in the China Quarter in Birmingham in the 50s was called The Tong....., which means the hall, the happy gathering place. The fellows from Hong Kong are gambling crazy, its not of course but it seems to me, its all they do for fun. My pal was the man here, two words from him in the China Palace Casino and the action would stop dead and the place would empty of all the Chinese at least. You don't need to cheat a casino when you have the power to close down a casino like that I think. I guess he was Tong but I don't know though as I asked no questions. Strangly he was the only chinaman in the China Palace casino that played poker and its the only casino here I have seen them play Mahjong in. I guess there are some but I don't even know one Englishmen that plays Mahjong.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts |
Interesting stuff.
I've seen serious money change hands over "Go", played throughout Asia. It is a fiendish game! I guess few people get into these games if they haven't played from a fairly young age. |
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cartouche7 New user 70 Posts |
According to my knowledge, the only way for cheating at Go is when we count the score.
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts |
Yes, it's the level of expertise that would warn me off. When I lived in Oxford, a whole bunch of graduate students used to meet weekly in a bar I frequented; they were mostly mathematicians and physicists. I was friendly with one if them, still am, a theoretical physicist and Rhodes scholar: he felt it was more stimulating than chess.
I used to watch... |
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Tony45 Veteran user 384 Posts |
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On 2012-03-06 07:53, AMcD wrote: that's the cards, you just brought back some memories with that link. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
By the way as we are talking Chinese, you have to get The Mott Street Poker Club. It goes with The Thomas Street Poker Club Lectures book. They are not exactly politically correct books but I love them.
http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/the-mo......17513317 You can get the hard copy there also I think.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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isis_izumi New user Tokyo 50 Posts |
Wow I loved reading and watching Tetsuya. Sometimes my friends and I get togather and play mahjang online without cheating, of course...
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