Fear of dai san gen

Osamu's recent encounter reminds me of the sheer force of intimidation that can be generated with a couple of yakuhai pon. When it starts to look like a yakuman, everyone plays carefully to avoid getting hit with Pao. I remember a game against Terek long ago in which he made Haku and Hatsu pon right before I was going to discard my chun.



The rest of his hand was garbage at that point but I still held on to that chun because I didn't want to risk Pao. Once I reached tenpai I decided to risk it, but terek had finally just drawn a chun and made a tanki wait on it. =3=