The Balatro Thread

[Touring Mars]

Ooft - I had my first proper 'bug' in a game of Balatro just now.

I had 2 Hearts in my hand, but I also had a Sun tarot card, so converted 3 other cards to Hearts to make a Flush.

I played it, not noticing the bug - it only counted the original two cards as Hearts which happened to be the same Rank (Kings), so it classified the Hand as a Pair... luckily it didn't kill my game, but I would have been super angry if it had!!

 

[Touring Mars]

Misprint is one of my favourite but also one of the most frustrating jokers in the game IMO.

It gave me three 0 Mults in 4 hands just now, one of which was in the last round (Ante 8 Boss), which I ended up losing

But... it is still one of the most powerful Jokers due to its hidden power of showing which card is going to be dealt next.

 

[Touring Mars]

Two fun games today...

Lost the 1st in the last round against Cerulean Bell - but I was extremely unlucky.

I had one hand and one discard left and only needed 3oaK (with NO other cards....) to win.

I was holding 10* 9 9 9 3 3 3 3, but the 10 was the compulsory card... so, I discarded it, only needing anything but the new card to be the new compulsory card so I could play 3oaK alone and get the necessary 20 Mult bonus for only playing 3 cards (which I needed to score enough to win on the final hand). Unbelievably, I drew another 10 and it was selected as the compulsory card. I was forced to play 3oaK but with a 10 tagged on, and lost by less than 20,000.

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My 2nd game was great - and I finally beat Black deck on the Green stake after multiple attempts.

I had a cool Joker deck, which included Triboulet, Seeing Double, Stencil and Joker (Poly).

However, I then got Invisible Joker and it doubled Triboulet, and I had to sell Joker for the final Boss (Verdant Leaf),

I had loaded my deck with Kings and Queens. In the final, I got KKQQ with a Glass King, and 2 Pair on Level 7...

That was enough for 2^10 (1024X Mult) from the Triboulets alone, plus 2X from Seeing Double (2048X) and 3X from Stencil (6144X), which gave me a Mult of something on the order of 43,000 Suffice it to say that was enough to win...

 

[Touring Mars]

I beat Plasma Deck on Green stake on my iPad just now... first attempt, though it was a tricky game that I only won by playing well and a very handy Joker deck that included both Brainstorm and Blueprint, each of which was used to copy Bull, which coupled with a healthy economy gave me a ton of chips.

Over the last few days I've tried the same game (Plasma/Green) on the PS5 night on 10 times and have been beaten every time... it is surprisingly difficult and I think Plasma in particular requires a pretty specific sequence of Jokers to work.

I finally won by sticking to the old favourite "Two Pairs", but I also got a bit lucky with not one but two Boss Re-Rolls in the final Ante, which I had to use twice in order to give me 'Amber Acorn' as the Ante 8 Boss...

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edit:

Yay! I FINALLY beat Plasma deck on Green stake on the PS5... I had 5 Uncommon Jokers and Baseball Joker, but it was still a bit tight. Once again, I needed to reroll the Ante 8 Boss to avoid Cerulean Bell (a pet hate of mine), but got Crimson Heart which is not much better - however, I played it pretty well and had Full Houses levelled up, backed up with Two Pairs levelled up as well. I only needed the avoid Baseball being disabled in the final hand, and fortunately for me it was not, so I ended up winning on the final hand.

 

[Touring Mars]

I went to Glasgow today and won games on both the outward and return legs of my train journey - sadly, the second win didn't register yet again - this happens far too much on the iPad, hence why my iPad stats are unlikely to ever surpass my PS5 stats.

Otherwise it was a good game - PhotoChad made all the difference... if anything, it's almost an over-powered hack, and with Chequered Deck, it was virtually impossible not to get a Flush with a Face Card needed to trigger an 8X Mult.

 

[Touring Mars]

I had my 2nd best game ever tonight - Erratic Deck, Green stake - and I managed to win with just 4 active Jokers, including Smeared Joker (which guarantees Flushes), Onxy Agate (which gives +7 Mult for every Club played); Blueprint and Card Sharp. I collected Black cards and certain numbers (Queens, 10s and 2s), which gave me Flush Houses pretty frequently.

Canio was useless until Endless mode - a combo of Glass Cards breaking and a few Hanged Man cards quickly raised Canio to a crazy 10X Mult; which, coupled with Blueprint and Card Sharp was yielding a massive 300X... enough to get me to Round 32 for only the second time.

Alas, the Ante 11 boss (which I'd already beaten once) was horrible and I didn't have enough cash left to reroll it enough times to get a good boss; in hindsight, I shouldn't have rerolled at all, as the original boss was The Ox, which would have cost me all my money, but would have been much easier to beat than all the other ones I got. But still, a great game, and my best hand was 72,000,000!!

Spoiler

Looking through my records, my longest ever game was Round 34, and that was my last game before my cancer diagnosis...

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And another unique game today where I somehow got Flush up to Level 69 😅...

 

[Wilsonson]

I finally beat gold stakes on the green deck. More money for left over hands and even left over discards but no interest. Makes for a weird dynamic.

Beat it with these final jokers.

Raised fist with mime plus many steel cards did it.