The Balatro Thread

[Wilsonson]

What fascinates me about this game is how delicate everything is. Your setup sounds really good but wasn't enough. I guess flat chips and flat mult either via jokers or even more planet levels was necessary. But all to often the game punishes one like this.

Personally I'm doing quite well. Won gold stakes on the Nebula Deck (starting with telescope for guaranteed planet of most played hand but with only one consumable slot) today.

All the planets pumped Constellation up to 4.1x. Combined with the high base mult of all of my flush levels this worked pretty well. Mist crucial though was the combo of flushes with Ancient Joker. 1.5 to the 5th is about 7.5x. I had a few red seals which got it to over 11x when I drew them.

My biggest blunder was taking the eternal Mystic Summit after already having the Ancient Joker. The 1.5x per correct suit is added on during the cards phase of pont calculation. The measley +15 flat mult on top is pretty meaningless then. To make things worse I already had a good sticker on it too.

The egg gave me very nice Temperance value every now and then. Odd Todd wasn't necessary in the end but kept both around to get them their well deserved gold sticker. Temperance got a new one too.

After this I did another run continuing the next deck. It was Green Stakes on the Abandoned Deck.

I got the Runner early which is why I concentrated on straights. A holographic Gift Card soon after carried me for a bit and increased my sell values massively. This made Ceremonial Dagger the perfect fit towards the end.

Full Houses and Flushes should work well too here I guess. Quads should be more easy too once you manipulate your deck a bit. I will do this deck now till I win Gold Stakes and will report back about what works well.

 

[Touring Mars]

A couple of very nice results @Wilsonson

The egg gave me very nice Temperance value every now and then. Odd Todd wasn't necessary in the end but kept both around to get them their well deserved gold sticker. Temperance got a new one too.

Haha, I've only just started doing that - having the choice to ditch a Joker that has performed well before the A8 Boss Blind is tricky, but I also think that some jokers 'deserve' a win, and funnily enough, Odd Todd is a favourite of mine - it is very handy early on, but with a bit of deck manipulation, it can be good for the whole game.

 

[Wilsonson]

Another game, another win tying my longest win streak of 3.

Continuing on the Abandoned Deck it was Black Stakes now. Went for Two Pair this time. Worked well, especially once one or at most two of them get you through a round reliably.

My joker luck was pretty crazy. I had all of this at about Ante 4. The 4x Lucky Cat was built over time off course.

Three cool new seal cards every round. At the top I had 140 dollars for a very nice Bootstraps. Copied that with Brainstorm then multiplied by double Lucky Cat through Blueprint.

Unfortunately I blundered twice at the Ante 6 and 7 bosses. I almost died to the Needle when I tried playing a random high card to farm gold seals. Luckily I had reset the jokers already from triple seals to enhanced scoring. Therefore I barely scraped by.

Then I squandered all my riches because when the Ox said playing high card sets money to zero I of course played high card to once again farm a gold seal. Oh well triple Cat isn't bad either.

I skipped through Ante 7 and 8 because I was already scoring in the millions.

I went for Lucky cards aggressively, especially making my red seals lucky. The nicest cards I had were red seals holographic Lucky cards like this one. Beautiful with a Lucky Cat.

Blue Stakes next. One less discard makes this the first Stake that really hurts in my opinion. Purple stakes afterwards sets the score requirement for winning to 400k which also becomes a real problem on many runs. Added perishable and rental jokers on Orange and Gold Stakes are the cherry on top of the difficulty cake.

I will hope to keep my streak going for one more run but I do not bet on it.