Kraków Saki Cards Taikai 2025
We invite you to the second-ever Polish tournament using Saki Cards!

About
- Date: 26th July 2025 (Saturday)
- Place: Headquarters of Kraków Chombo Club
- Rules: modified EMA Riichi 2016 + Saki Cards 1.3
- Hanchans: 4
- Fee: 55 PLN (13 EUR), paid by bank transfer (make sure you cover all the bank transfer fees, if any!):
- Deadline: 25 July 2025
- IBAN:
PL13 1140 2004 0000 3802 8180 7241
- SWIFT/BIC:
BREXPLPWMBK
- Account owner:
Stowarzyszenie Krakowski Klub Chombo ul. Grota-Roweckiego 31/13 30-348 Kraków Poland
- Reference:
<name and surname> - Krakow Saki Cards Taikai registration fee
- Participant limit: 16 (might be increased if there’s high interest)
- Referees:
- Szymon Nowicz (will also be playing)
- Lunch: not provided (on your own)
- Scoring: Point sticks
Rules
Ruleset is based on EMA 2016 with the following modifications:
Kazoe Yakuman
A hand worth 13 han or more is treated as a yakuman.
Additional yaku: Nagashi Mangan (流し満貫)
- Awarded if during a ryuukyoku (exhaustive draw) the player meets all of the following:
- All visible discards are terminals (1s, 9s) or honors
- None of the player’s discards were called
- Player has a closed hand
- Always worth 5 han (mangan), does not combine with other yaku or dora.
Red Fives
There are 3 red fives in the game, one per suit.
Saki Cards 1.3
Before the game starts, the first dealer gives each player 7 cards from the deck. Each player chooses one card, then passes the remaining cards to the player on their right. This continues until everyone has 6 cards. The rest are discarded.
Players then select 1 of their 6 cards after seeing their starting hand and place it face-down. Once everyone is ready, they reveal their chosen cards.
During the match, players must change their characters every round and cannot select the same card again until 5 out of 6 of their cards are played. When a player has only a single available card, all cards become available again and character rotation starts anew.
There are 63 cards in the deck, each with a unique ability.
You can view all the Saki Cards here and access the Saki Cards Rulebook here
Agenda
Tournament Schedule | |
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08:30–09:15 | Registration |
09:15–10:45 | 1st Hanchan |
10:45–11:00 | Break |
11:00–12:30 | 2nd Hanchan |
12:30–12:45 | Break |
12:45–14:15 | 3rd Hanchan |
14:15–15:45 | Lunch Break |
15:45–17:15 | 4th Hanchan |
17:15–17:30 | Break |
17:30–19:00 | 5th Hanchan |
19:00–19:30 | Closing Ceremony |
Registration
NOTE: Registration closes on July 5th — this is the final day to submit a valid registration.
Players
No. | Name | Nickname | Country | Paid | |
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1 | Szymon Nowicz | Poland | |||
2 | Michał Waliszewski | Poland | |||
3 | Michał Tkaczyk | HANNYA般若 | Poland | ||
4 | Aleksander Orlikowski | Olson | Poland | ||
5 | Dawid Bronowicki | Poland | |||
6 | Anton Lu | Anton | Austria | ||
7 | Jakub Szpyra | Kuboxxxxx | Poland | ||
8 | Tom Kristian Moen | Kloro | Norway | ||
9 | Brandon Picq | Linami | France | ||
10 | Arkadiusz Natanek | Kenatan | Poland | ||
11 | Dominik Jarno | Dokku | Poland | ||
12 | Paweł Polański | Havelock | Polska |