Two-Draw Gamble

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The Two-Draw Gamble is a Match in the Akagi manga series, taking place in Chapter 33.

Context

After the seniors at the toy factory cheated Osamu out of his paycheck, Akagi challenges them to a new gamble betting the 2 million yen he won in his earlier gamble with Hirayama. Meanwhile, the seniors would be betting their paychecks, their winnings against Osamu and their entire life savings. The terms of the bet are that Akagi wins if he can complete Osamu's hand (a closed wait for the 5-man tile) by drawing twice from the 14 tiles of the dead wall.

Players

Tricks

  • Kawashima reasons that the last two 5-man tiles are in his hand, and therefore there is no way for Akagi to draw them from the wall, making this a sure bet.
  • Akagi pretends to use the dora indicator to complete the hand, to which Kawashima objects. When returning it to the wall, Akagi takes advantage of the seniors' distraction to swap a tile from the wall with a 6-man tile from the discards.
  • Akagi draws the 6-man tile he placed on the wall, then discards a 4-man tile to change his wait into a dual wait for the 6-man or shaa (west wind) tiles. He argues that it was implied that drawing twice included discarding, and that otherwise he would have no chance of winning since the last two 5-man are in Kawashima's hand.
  • For his second draw, Akagi draws the top one of the two tiles that Kawashima had moved to the wall when using the "bukkonuki" trick in the previous game, having deduced based on the discards that these were the shaa and ton (east wind) tiles. Furthermore, he observed that when Kawashima moved the useless tiles to the left side of his hand to perform the trick, the leftmost tile (which ended up on top) was a tile that Kawashima moved all the way from the right side of his hand, which indicated that Kawashima considered it less useful than the chun (red dragon) tile that he later discarded. Since Kawashima was on the east seat, and therefore would get more points for hands that included the east wind tile, Akagi deduces that Kawashima would not have considered the ton more useless than the chun, and therefore the leftmost tile must have been the shaa.

Outcome

Akagi completes the hand using the shaa tile, winning the bet and taking all of the seniors' money. He returns some of the money to Osamu as a "rental fee" for using his hand to win.

Winners

  • Akagi

Losers

  • Seniors