>>700932925
brother. its rng. you can make choices to boost your chances but youre essentially playing a game with less skill influence than trad poker

>>700932925
>I suck balls
well of course. (You)'re OP.

>>700932925
I've played 20+ hours without a single win but I'm still having fun

how to play this?

>>700933230
I had a win after playing for 3 hours then nothing but loses for the rest 10 or so I've played.

>>700933007
actual retard post. the skill ceiling is extremely high but retards never get anywhere close to it due to low IQ and chronic flush-syndrome.

This fucking banana stuck around for 6 rounds and then I lost.

im the joker baby

>>700932925
>I suck balls
We know

Its RNG but you need to try mitigate it.
>but
Prove me it isn't rng.

>>700935390
>first voucher is magic hat
Its over

the fundamental laws of rogue like,is that you need yo restart over and over until you get a good start and work from there to have a chance

so yes,its rng

>>700933371
Only prerequisites are knowing how to play actual Poker (you just need to know what poker hands actually score), and having $15 maximum.
>Play poker hands to score points, better hands = more points.
>Purchase Jokers with coins earned from completing rounds to get you more points, point multipliers, and point multiplier mulitpliers (the best ones); play around their conditions to get the more and more points needed to complete more rounds as they get harder.
>Purchase consumable tarot cards and spectral cards to upgrade cards to play in hands.
>Purchase planet cards to increase points earned from hands.
>Purchase vouchers to get upgrades that last through your run.
>Check your collection to see the unlock requirements for Jokers, Vouchers, and Decks.
>Potassium is good for you.

>>700933230
How is this possible, anon???

I can see why this is addictive but I don't know why I should subject myself to it. I could get hooked on it but if I see the writing on the wall why get dragged into it?

>>700933230
How the fuck? I won on my first game going in totally bilnd.

>>700933230
>>700933459
Are you reordering your jokers? I genuinely don't understand how it's possible to win so little unless you're missing some vital mechanic.

>>700933230
Seriously? The first game is piss easy, to the point where there's even a challenge deck to complete it without any jokers.

>>700933371
The game spoonfeeds practically all the information you'll need, even if you are starting out not knowing jack shit about poker. The UI is top notch.

>>700935727
if you feel like you lack the self-control to not waste undue amounts of time playing a video game, dont, i guess

>Spectal card changes the entire hand to aces
>Have hobo joker
>And the arcana mult joker
>Use hobo arcana to delete any card that isn't an ace and go into the full 5 of a kind build.
Shit was cash. Didn't make it past 12 though.

>>700932925
I don't know how people are bad at Balatro.
It's incredibly braindead until you unlock some of the later decks, and then it only issues a mild challenge.
I've seen people say they played dozens of games without winning once, which seems impossible.

We're one month into 2025. 11 months from the release of the game.
Content update when!?

>>700932925
>I suck balls
Bet you play Balatro all day just because you like it so much.

>>700937878
Does it really need it when there's mods?

>>700938716
What if every update ever made to a game since it's launch is just a mod made by the official developer(s)?

>>700932925
Don't talk to me if you haven't beat black deck gold stake

>>700935627
Who cares what the first voucher is in nearly 100% of decks you skip anyway unless it is something godly like grabber

>>700933230
Get + mult and an economy joker early on, fill out your joker slots with things that help you score when you have the income. You can switch out the economy joker later on, it usually pays for itself. Also remember order of operations, jokers activate left to right so you want +mult on the left and xmult on the right

>>700939229
>negative joker
luckshitter

>>700932925
Yeah same, I have only cleared Gold stake once. And still haven't completed Jokerless.

>>700941821
I'm still stuck on Purple Stake with the Green Deck. All I want to do is unlock the Erratic Deck. Should I be using a different deck for that?

>>700941930
I think Zodiac or Ghost decks might be more helpful. Interest is a much bigger help to me overall especially if you can pull an early seed money voucher

Easiest win of my life.

>>700941930
Take the flushpill and go Checkered, that's how I got my first gold. Plasma is also fun but the strategy is fucky because on higher stakes you have to pivot from chips to xmult halfway through the run to survive.

>>700939229
is black deck considered hard? I didn't have much trouble gold staking it

>>700935627
>>first voucher is magic hat
>Its over
Vouchers on average are probably the least important aspect of the run. It doesn't matter what the first voucher is.

>the fundamental laws of rogue like,is that you need yo restart over and over until you get a good start
If you genuinely think that, you probably shouldn't even be playing rougelikes in the first place.
These games are either piss easy anyway for it to matter what rng you get or can be so hard that the joy of the game comes from pulling out the victory when the rng tried to fuck you over repeatedly. Literally no inbetween, unless you are a baby that is interested solely in effortlessly winning a run in a singleplayer game. Restaring a run until you see that you can win from the get-go is literally the same as booting up a seeded game that you know will be a breeze.

inb4 "B-b-but what about unwinnable seeds? Why bother if it's impossible to win!"
There probably are seeds like that, especially on gold stake in Balatro, but, generally, it's either not the case or you don't even have the capacity to judge whether it is, since you are a bitch that refuses to learn the game they are playing and is content with brushing their mistakes off as bad rng.

>>700942736
-1 hand is a huge downside, both to your scoring potential and your income. +1 joker slot is neat and all but if you die early due to the downside it doesn't do much for you.

>>700937568
The play here was not to go for aces, but twos. With twos you could have gone for a wee joker, hack, and fibonacci to compliment your hobo-fortune teller setup. Bonus points if you start copying red seal steel twos. Not as good as red seal steel heart kings with perkeo/baron/mime/bloodstone/observatory but should take you pretty far.

You should play Vampire Survivors instead

>>700942296
>eternal rental 6s
For what purpose?

>>700934003
>chronic flush-syndrome
The what? Did I skip over this part of gitting gud? I just went straight to juicing shit like pair and high card in most runs because it made the most sense to me.

>>700942880
you should be clearing blinds with 1 or 2 hands by ante 4-5 anyway and there's vouchers that give you more hands

>>700943229
Making glass cards break more often, making hallucination proc every time, all working towards feeding Canio

>>700943464
>you should be clearing blinds with 1 or 2 hands
This guy doesn't ride the bus with Grimbo or pants

>>700932925
what? The game plays itself, if anything you just need to read the cards to make synergies, and hoping you get those synergies. That's it, 99% of the game will be you restarting the game waisting your time til you get a good combination.

>>700943743
Nta but I can never figure out how to properly scale Grimbo. I just like discards too much.

>>700943864
Well, the correct answer to that would probably be that if you are that desperate for a discard, it's okay to do it, it's only -1 (-2) mult, not a big deal.
But, personally, I find it easy to go the entire run without a single discard (big Ramen fan). Obviously, it's for high card or pair build only.

>>700943743
scaling jokers aren't viable late in the run, I always take the pants if they show up early and ride the bus depends on building your entire strategy around it

>>700944538
I think my problem is I just can't seem to work it into my builds. I might just be terminally straight/flush brained.

>>700945035
These aren't the jokers for the endless, yes, but for the regular run they bang and are one of the most reliable mult jokers.
Ride the bus really doesn't need anything for it to work, it's just a better Grimbo. You just stop playing face cards, that's all. You can't be forced to break the mult if you are at least running pairs (simply pick the face cards alongside the numbered pair and they don't score).

>>700945665
Yeah, the bus is good but if you've already got a bunch of enhanced face cards or some of the jokers that require you to play face cards then it just isn't viable. That's why I only take it if it shows up early. And yeah I haven't really played endless after unlocking every card

>>700945035
If you are properly using them they will carry you through to ante 8, the ones that scale off of hands played are less effective on black deck because you have few hands and you want to be saving all of them so you can buy stuff at the shop. Grimbo you need to be using high cards to discard so you can play your finishing hand on the last turn.
>>700942736
It is hard because you have no money and if you get shafted at the first shop you will die to the big or boss blind. Even if you make it past there you do not have the hands to scale scaling jokers and you have less money to work with and the +1 joker isn't helping you at all yet. Black deck is more reliant on luck, especially gold stake when every shop joker is eternal and rental

>>700945035
>scaling jokers aren't viable late in the run
What? By late do you mean like Ante 11? Red/Flash Card, Bus/Nova/Green, and Pants carry runs.

>>700942831
>There probably are seeds like that, especially on gold stake in Balatro
Genuinely don't think this is true. It's difficult to imagine what an unwinnable seed looks like. Maybe someone can bruteforce a seed to force a fail state like in StS, but I doubt it because I can't even envision what a fail state looks like. It would need to be Black Deck losing within the first two antes or something.

>Finishing golden needle with 300+ dollars and the bull and bootstraps
>>700943229
Because he plans on using glass cards, I would be more worried about his first joker but he probably picked that early and didn't have better options.

>>700946319
I can consistently get 6 jokers by the end of ante 2.
>>700946465
I mean they aren't viable if you pick them late to the run. You gotta scale them at lower antes for them to be any good. Pants are useless if you see them at ante 7

>>700946668
The question is moreso is the sixth joker adding more to your run than +1 hand for the whole run. The answer is no in almost all cases. Or else Blue Deck would be roughly as good as Black (which it isn't).

>>700946258
There are a lot of strong strategies that really on activating face cards, just playing one face card is enough to set your stack to zero, ride the bus is something you pick when you don't have anything better available.
>>700946465
Red card is shit it relies on you skipping booster packs

>>700947057
>Red card is shit it relies on you skipping booster packs
As if that were an issue.

>>700947057
baron is the strongest of the face card synergies, and he expressly doesn't want you playing them.

>>700946465
>Genuinely don't think this is true.
I meant without the perfect information. When you, like, don't get anything that helps you score in the first two shops and are forced to beat the boss blind on, let's say, gold stake black deck without any jokers. You try to draw the hands that are the highest chance to draw and will be enough to score, but it turns out that you needed to try to draw the entierly different suit or rank and you lose. In that scenario it was a winnable seed, but you had no tools to make that happen.
Basically, I'm saying that you can't have an honest 100% winrate on gold stake. There will be coinflips. Just like in the minesweeper.

Chiclet should get like .5 mult for each boss beaten just to make him a bit more “Legendary”

>>700947225
Why would you need the red card when you have bull and bootstraps already, get another xmult or blueprint.
>>700947316
And the baron is the weakest early on because you only have 4 kings and no steels. Hanging chad and photograph is online immediately

>>700947057
>ride the bus is something you pick when you don't have anything better available
This is the hottest take I've ever seen.
>Red card is shit it relies on you skipping booster packs
Booster packs are generally bad. Turning two random cards in your deck into +mult/chips, a random card into glass/steel, or picking a random planet are low EV plays. You're better off taking +3 mult in every case where those are your options. The beauty of Red Card is that you open more boosters, which can be good sometimes (money/golden/blue seals/etc.), getting more good stuff AND also scaling off every time you open those packs and fail to find the good stuff (extremely often). There's not a lot in the game that comes close to +6 mult per blind.

>>700947473
>get another xmult or blueprint.
Yeah because it's just that easy to summon rare cards from the aether man.

>>700947371
+1 xmult for every hand that would have activated the boss effect. Still slower than all the other scaling xmult but strong enough to be worth keeping once you have boss reroll(s).

>>700947038
I suppose when you compare the decks that's true. Blue deck is piss easy. Still I'm having lots more trouble gold staking painted deck (-1 Joker +2 Hand size) than I did black deck.

>>700947742
Good idea too but kind of suffers similar fate to matador where half the bosses dont even do anything for you

>>700935075
i go pure luck build every time, it never gets old mayne

>>700948164
early game would, at worst, function as it does now as a reusable luchador. Late game with rerolls it's very easy to stack.

what people get for the first tag? feels like a obvious choice to reroll until negative/multi joker or some shit like that, currently trying to beat orange stake.

>>700948756
The first shop is more valuable than what you listed. So no, "rerolling" the run until you see a negative tag is making yourself a disservice, because that's worse on average. The only tag that I could say is strictly better than beating the first blind that I can think of is the "25 dollars for beating the boss blind" one. It simply does too much at once. Other tags is just you hoping for a highroll - not that it can't benefit you, but it most likely won't.

>>700948756
Buffoon pack so you'll have a choice. It's going to be free anyway

>>700933230
Farthest I got was Ante 6. Fun as fuck game though and I never had an interest or knew the rules of poker beforehand

>>700948756
Tags are overall just not worth it even on anaglyph deck sometimes. Really hope thats something hes giving a decent buff in the gameplay update

>>700948756
negative tag doesn't show up at ante 1. I always take a free joker tag, double tag, free shop tag or $25 after boss blind tag at ante 1.

>>700948756
Best tag for first is Mega Buffoon Pack. Next best is $25 on boss defeat. After that, free shop tag. Almost nothing else is worth taking unless you want to gamble with a double tag.
Negative tag is a trap and only good with Anaglyph gambling.

>>700950302
>Tags are overall just not worth it
the fuck? the $25 tag can singlehandedly fix your economy, negative tag is a no brainer to take and if you take a rare/uncommon joker tag early on it can make your run.

>>700932925
You can use 5 jokers at the start and you should be aiming for one of each of the following.
>Economy
An economy joker is anything that generates a resource, which most of the time will be money but can also be tarot cards or planets. Figure out what kind of strategy you're going for and try to get an econ joker that fits that plan.
>+Chips
Chips are a lot more useful than many people realize as most new players will just try to stack +Mult. Since chips are harder to get and they're multiplied by the rest of your score, even something as simple as a Banner can serve as effectively a 2-3x multiplier. This is more effective the lower scoring (and more consistent) your most-played hand is.
>+Mult
Something that will consistently give you extra multiplier, usually just a common joker for the hand you're playing will suffice. This will carry you through ante 8, but you typically end up selling this one in Endless Mode. Still, between a simple +mult and +chip you usually have enough score to carry you through the first few antes while being able to save up your money to earn big on interest and to get vouchers that enhance your odds of getting better cards later.
>+Mult
Like the above, but this time you want to get a multiplier that scales. Things like "+X mult every time you Y" do good, and you want to pick something out that plays well with whatever strategy you're going for.
>XMult
This is where Balatro gets extra funny. Keep this on the right side of your jokers as they are calculated left-to-right (10+10x3 will be 60 whereas 10x3+10 will only be 40). High X mult is how you get your score into the crazy numbers and if you can get multiple X multipliers to trigger when scoring you can usually get to the super late antes.

>>700933230
>>700933371
Get 1 way to gain gold/economy.
Get 1 way to add raw chips (joker, planets, etc)
Get 1 way to add + multiplier (joker, enchanted cards, etc)
Get 1 way to add x multiplier (joker, steel cards, etc)
Play reasonably and you should go to Ante 8.

>>700933371
Use this when you see it, once your jokers all have an edition you can't lose.

>>700932925
Of course, it's poker, it's always 100% luck no matter what people tell you.

>>700933007
Tell me you're bad without telling me you're bad.
I bet you pick jonklers based on "tier lists".

>>700942736
It's probably the hardest alongside Painted.
If you get a decent scoring joker and a decent economy joker early you're sitting pretty on black, though. Then it becomes very easy with the extra slot.

>>700950673
>negative tag is a no brainer to take
He's right, and this is very untrue unless you're farming stickers. Negative Jokers can be useless and/or rentals. Being able to see one is nice, but you're not giving up nothing. You're giving up interest, hand scaling, money from winning BB, blue seals, golden cards, gold seals, purple seals, and a new shop by skipping. It's true that most of those aren't relevant at the start of a run, but that just means that the further you get into a run, the less you should be skipping, and you should hardly be skipping in the first place.
You should skip for the $25 early, to get foil/holo early, for a free shop sometimes, to double $40, to get +3 to the correct planet, and for hand size if you're fishing against a problem boss. Skipping for rare/uncommons is worse because they could be eternal, rental, or perishable in addition to being useless. Everything else is varying levels of bad.

>>700948756
Money or jokers, +2 commons/mega buffoon are going to help more than a polygraph or negative. And the +2 commons are never eternal and rental shits. Also you shouldn't be rerolling for better seeds, the first shop is also valuable

>>700950673
>negative tag is a no brainer to take
Man, I'm so glad I missed out on scaling, money and a shop for a fucking negative Ice Cream or 8-ball.

>>700951692
>>700951997
that's nice but I'm always taking the negative tag and I'm always taking the soul spectral card.

>>700951997
I agree, but take exception to the Ice Cream slander. It's quite good up until Ante 4-5. If I could guaranteed get an Ice Cream off like an Ante 2 skip, I'd probably skip way more than I do now lol.

>>700952180
At least you should almost always take Soul. Yorrick is gg, Perkeo is almost gg, Canio and Triboulet can be gg, and Chicot is $10 at worst and run saving at best.

>>700933007
This, fpbp, /thread. I'm trying to clear a hard mode in Despotism 3K right now and it's fucking unbearable. I decided to look up a strat on YT and the first search entry is a video by a Korean "well maybe he pulled some starcraft strat out of his ass by managing humans really fast" but no, all he did was pulling a random event early game that doubles your human production therefore skyrocketing his overall production.
I wish all the worst to niggers who were inspired by rogue-likes like Isaac or EtG where you basically move down a path and encounter random shit without having options to at least choose from several random options like in Nuclear Throne.

>>700951660
>It's probably the hardest alongside Painted.
Painted deck is easily one of the strongest. Most often than not you don't need more than 3 jokers to score anyway. And then there is a jokerless challenge that demostrates how potentially no jokers are needed at all to win. 10 hand size is insane and the fact that you can make it even bigger with vouchers and jokers basically makes it so you never get bad draws, which is often a real problem. This deck enables many builds over the usual high card and bad luck managing is probably the single most valuable thing you can be offered in a rougelike.

Painted is great, just play straights and get a few jupiters and you barely need the top tier jokers

you guys have no idea how difficult this was

Sorry Saturns but yeah anyway

Update When

Its fun but I don't really know how people have 100+ hours in it. Every build tends to end up the same.

>>700954034
yeah man love the game but 100+ hours is just autistic. couldnt be me.

>>700954034
not counting the gold sticker on every joker achievement, to beat every deck on gold stake and complete every challange would require 140 wins. let's say you are an extremely good player with 100% winrate that beats ante 8 in 30 minutes every time. It makes it 70 hours just to do those two achievements. here's how you could spend more than 100 hours in balatro

>>700954802
Thats assuming you want to 100% the game. I imagine most would get burnt out before then.

>>700954034
I agree. I don't really see the variety in it as a deckbuilder like you do in other deckbuilders. A lot of the time it just seems on rails. I feel like there's more choice in Hearthstone's Dungeon Run mode, and that is pretty damn limited.

>>700956701
Balatro gives its silliest battles to his funniest jokers.

I've got over 20 wins on my phone now, catchin up with my Steam account with the collection at 88%. Even got a few cheevos not on my computer, hahaha, fuck. Really does help to pass the time when I'm stuck somewhere.

>>700947225
>+6 mult per round
ngmi

>>700956701
You don't need gift card on an egg, save for anything else, the polychrome makes your straights and flushes even stronger, get the suit jokers and you should be able to clear until you get offered better jokers

I think I want to play straights

>>700950593
>skip ante 1 small blind for $25 after boss defeat
>skip ante 1 big blind for $25 after boss defeat
>lose to boss
I'm what you might call a pro gambler

>>700959397
yeah good luck with that bub

>>700936864
haven't done challenges yet but what's the play there?
stacking planets for higher scoring hands and trimming your deck?

>>700960048
just hold out for parodelia bro

>>700947057
Red card is good for being a contingency with boosters. If a booster fails to produce anything good it doesn't become money wasted if you have red card. Likewise you can build a strat around buying boosters to booss red card and that way you're opening boosters more often with an increased likelihood of getting something worth not skipping over/

>>700959964
Yeah but also tarots for econ and deck enhancement

>>700961791
that sounds a bit painful to get through

>>700959841
I failed to make a straight and the run was over.
>>700961057
Its trash (0 mult) and you need to spend money to make it not trash. An abstract gives you +3 mult just for buying it and it scales as you add jokers(Which you should do), it makes you play less hands and earn more money to afford more jokers. Boot straps and the tarot joker don't require you to skip to get big numbers. Its not the worst joker but it requires a lot of investment to be good.

>>700963047
It is. I still haven't beaten it, although I've made it to Ante 7.

>>700963095
red card gives you a guaranteed +6 mult every shop. sometimes you can even choose a card and still skip the booster. +mult is the most valuable score booster first half of the run and it's not difficult to level it to a decent degree.
opening packs exposes you to more options to improve your run so it's a win-win no matter what. the only prerequisite for a strong red card is a stable econ, which you should aim for anyways.

>>700963095
abstract generally caps out at +15 while red card can get +6 per blind if you want it to, meaning it can already be bigger after a single ante. Really they're two different categories since abstract is a quick +15 for early game while red card scales up to a big number for you to xmult later.
And as far as scaling jokers go red card is fairly efficient mult per $ spent since like the other poster said you don't have to always skip, just if there isn't anything good in the pack. Which is the case more often than not.
>Bootstraps
Requires you to not spend any of your money to get a big number on it, which is effectively the same as spending it to scale the joker unless you plan on selling it later to free up the money.
>Fortuneteller
Pretty good since you generally want to be getting and using tarots but it's still going to go up slower than red card unless you see a bunch of really good packs (which means you're probably winning anyways) or you hit a combo with it like vagabond or some purple seals to make it pop off.

I just had the most insane luck, I thought I was done for, would fall far below the required score, but I played it out regardless. I kid you not 5 consecutive lucky card procs brought me like 500 points over the req. I don't even have the dice!

>>700965265
I love lucky cards. Even though I'm sure they're sub optimal. When you hit that 20 bucks or 20 mult.. It's a beautiful thing

>>700965265
had something similar happen yesterday
>ante 6 or 7
>down to my last hand, haven't drawn a single hand worth a damn
>sell rocket and pop judgement I was holding on to as a final hail mary
>rolls burglar
>get 2 more hands, win the blind and the run
I will ride this high for at least a week.

Gold stake red deck is fucking bullshit.

>seeing double
oh this joker seems pretty great
>boss blind that debuffs clubs
wait, fuck

>>700932925
I'm 33 years old and I don't reliably know how to play any card game that isn't just Uno or Go Fish, maybe 21.

Poker confuses me and making it a fucking roguelike didn't do me any favors.

>>700942880
What a weird post. Who cares if you lose early? And $1 per round should not be making or breaking your overall econ significantly, either.

>>700941930
Abandoned deck is extremely consistent. Sure, you got no face cards, but you never have to worry about 2 of the potential boss blinds, and it's extremely easy to game it. Of course, the kicker there is if you've landed an xmult of some sort by ante 3. If you haven't, you're SOL because that score ramp is awful, and flat mult just doesn't cut the mustard at that stage. Cleared it with Obelisk personally. Extremely good joker to have.

>>700966280
Burglar activates even after entering the blind!? Congrats man!

>>700948756
Best is probably $25 for Boss Blind win, it starts your economy off strong and you're getting exactly what it says on the tin. Then it's free shop and mega buffoon, though those can be a bit more gambly. Something like Holographic is okay as well, but if you're reroll-shitting then you should really go for one of those first three.

>>700966484
Dude, you have an extra discard. It's basically a vanilla deck with rentals and eternal. That extra discard is extremely good near the top. It's not like, *S* tier good, but it's very serviceable. I wish I had that but I run abandoned.

The Nebula deck is stupid. There, I said it.

Picked this bad boy up in the first shop, now just need to find some good eternals.
>>700967074
It does because it delays your interest, so you are down a hand and down interest

>>700968593
I think we both know that isn't going to happen.

>>700968825
:)

>>700967074
That 1 dollar is a big deal in high stakes. It's the difference between winning and losing, no shit. Hell, even on red stakes, which is barely above easy in terms of difficulty, it's the difference between joker or no joker, and that can HURT.

>>700968935
What the fuck?

fug

>>700968593
>>700969102
I guess it's just my mentality that an early loss doesn't matter to me.

>>700941930
Ghost or yellow deck are probably the two easiest to win with at higher stakes.

>>700969262
More along the lines of having a good damn run be cut short because you were a dollar short for a mediocre joker that holds you off until you get going. For me, that was a Holo Jimbo, and a blue chip joker next ante, which eventually led to a Poly DNA, Hologram, Blueprint, Brainstorm, Negative Sock, and eventually a Trib. Run died on the plant, but it was fun as fuck.

>>700948756
25 buck after the boss is the best tag for consistency. Arcana pack is fun for the chance for Judgement or Soul, but feels bad if you don't hit either of them.

I just beat my final deck on gold stake and didn't get the achievement. Nor on steam nor in-game. What the fuck? It literally says Deck Stake Wins 100% and all of my decks have gold stake on them. I have never played a seeded run. Has this happened to someone before?

>>700970428
Are you using a modded client? If so, you have to go enable achievements. I also had to win another run after to get it to finally update.

>>700970721
>Are you using a modded client?
No.

It seems like I have to play another game and win it.

>>700970936
Should be fine to do it on white stake at least. Go play a meme run on Plasma for the big number.

>>700970976
>Go play a meme run on Plasma for the big number.
Literally on it rn

>>700971027
Chipped it up a bit.

Yeah, I got the achievement after that.

For me its the green deck, solid early money and no interest autism just win big as quickly as possible and spend all your money

>>700933007
roguesloppers hated him for telling the truth

>>700967052
This, my friend wouldn't shut the fuck about it explaining it to me in laborious detail as if that would make me want to play it. I've given it an hour of my time and still haven't "clicked", for everyone else - how long did it take you to "click" should I just give up at this point?

>>700954220
I don't know how it took so long but now that I've beaten every deck in gold, every challenge, and done a 20+ ante run, I think I'm finally done with this game.

>>700967052
only the first round has anything in common with poker. the hands are all listed in-game.

>>700974670
time for mods!

>>700967052
Poker is just a basic template for a fuckton of different games. The rank of hands depends on its probability.
From lowest to highest
>High Card
The catch-all for when your hand has nothing. Only highest rank card counts A>K>Q>J>10>9>etc.
>Pair
You got two of something. Pair of 3s beats a pair of 2s and so on
>Three of a Kind
Self explanatory
>Straight
5 cards that are in consecutive order. Highest is A,K,Q,J,10 and lowest is 5,4,3,2,1
>Flush
5 cards of the same suit
>Full House
Three of a kind of something and a Pair of another
>Four of a Kind
Self explanatory
>Straight Flush
A Straight that is also a Flush. Highest version is a Royal Flush
As far as that, poker has a bajillion variations, but most still manage to be fairly simple to play.