Opponent’s Four Concealed Triplets Jolts Margher Richa’s Morning Mahjong Soul Stream

.LIVE — Margher Richa’s morning ranked session on Mahjong Soul opened with a shock about 11 minutes in, when an opponent won with suuankou, four concealed triplets, one of the game’s top-scoring hands. Margher said she was glad she had not been the dealer and that the surprise was enough to make her stomach hurt. Chat joked that the opponent had taken her own hand, and she said she had been holding something heading the same way.

The stomachache became a running thread. Around the 15-minute mark she told viewers she would go take some medicine once the current game was over, half-blaming a fish sausage she had eaten before going live. The table stayed volatile: she was left unable to declare riichi at one point, and near the 24-minute mark two opponents were knocked out in a single hand, after which she stepped away to get the medicine. She returned about a minute and a half later and recommended a stomach remedy from Toyama.

“I was so startled I think my stomach actually hurts now.” — Margher Richa, after the opponent’s yakuman

The stream title had set a rule that the broadcast would end as soon as she placed fourth. Near the 30-minute mark, after another table hand in which an opponent drew a concealed-triplets win she said she could never have made herself, she said the day would be a quick one and began closing out.

In her sign-off she said she would join a second collaboration on Friday in which she and another streamer are taught mahjong. She also said the tool she normally uses to display chat comments on screen was unavailable because of the PHP vulnerability issue circulating that day, so she could not show them.

Chat spent the session in sympathy and disbelief, with viewers wishing her well over the stomach trouble and marveling at the size of the hands at the table.