Michael van der Sluijs

Region
Bucharest

Joined
2025

Achievements
1st place at Riichi Dutch Open 2024 and 2025
2nd place at Doitsu Jan Ou Taisen 2018, Riichi Dutch Open 2022, Vienna Riichi Open 2024, Swedish Riichi Open 2024
3rd place at Bristol Riverside Riichi 2025
7th Dan Tenhou
Attending WRC Vienna and WRC Tokyo
My biggest achievement is creating the Romanian Mahjong Association.

Background
My first encounter with Riichi was through an anime/manga called 'Legendary Gambler Tetsuya'. The game grasped me immediately and I was soon on the search for ways to play.
Playing my first real live Mahjong back in 2015 and then afterwards at Mahjong club Tsuml based in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht in The Netherlands. From 2018 I started playing in International European Tournaments eventually qualifying for ERMC 2019, WRC 2022, ERMC 2024 and WRC 2025.
Aside from that, in 2019 I moved to Romania and created the Romanian Mahjong Association with my fiancee, Rene Khezam.