Tried this at poker night once
I am no longer invited to poker night
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balatro IRL would fucking rock
Ooh! You could do a fusion of 5 card draw and texas hold em
You have a hand of 5 cards. The dealer flops three jokers from the game.
Players get one discard each, then one round of betting.
Then you have the turn (with discard and bets) and then the river.
You don't see everyone's hands but everyone shares the same 5 jokers.
If I'm not mistaken, this is even a Royal Flush with the given jokers.
It's close, but a royal flush would require four of these five A, K, Q, J, 10. The hand only has three A, Q, J.
Ah, I see. I thought the check is if it's a straight to the ace.
I realized after your comment that it might just be a check on the ace, but the wiki does state it must be four cards from A-10.
But doesn't shortcut help there? No?
Yeah it means that the four cards don't have to be contiguous. If you look at the wiki, it calls out the synergy between four fingers and shortcut as - any four cards A-10.
I've not played Balatro. I can see how three wildcards could turn this into a straight or a flush, but not a straight flush. How?
I don't know jokers by sight yet, but there's one that lets you do straights with gaps... So 2, 4, 5, 7, 9
Another that counts hearts and diamond as same as club and spade as same.
3rd allows straights and flushes to be played with 4 cards.so 7, 9, J , Q.
8 is a skip, 10 is a skip. Ok'd by jokers. Ace isn't counted in scoring or hand.
Ace will get counted as part of the straight.
But would the straight flush take priority since it's a higher scoring hand or how is it chosen? I assume a straight flush doesn't check for a straight and a flush.
All 5 cards will be counted in the straight flush. It's a straight (with one card gaps) and a flush (with 4 of the "same" suit).
So not all cards of the straight need to be flush to be counted as a straight flush so long as there is another flush in the played hand according to Balatro's scoring?
Yes, exactly as you've described. The specific combination of Jokers here is making things confusing (and that's the point of the meme). Try taking each issue individually:
Straight can be made with a card gap. So A Q J 9 7 counts as a straight. So the hand will at least be a straight and all 5 cards will score on this basis.
Flush can be made with 4 cards; and spades/clubs count as the same suit. Q J 9 7 count as the same suit and are enough to make a flush. Even though the ace doesn't count towards the flush, it will still count as the straight. If there was no ace then the hand would still be a straight flush.
The way the game scores is tricky sometimes. It gets particularly annoying when I've levelled up flush and my hand also happens to contain 3 of a kind. Then the game counts it as a 3 of a kind instead and counts much lower chips/multiplier.
- First joker allows for skips in straights
- Second joker blurs suits by color (clubs are spades, diamonds are hearts)
- Third joker allows you to make straights and flushes with four cards
- The ace is not scored here
The ace isn't scored here, but even if it was, if you had 4/5th of a straight and 4/5th of a flush, it's still a "straight flush".
In other words, if the 7 of Clubs was actually a 2 of Clubs, it still counts.
Pretty sure the ace is actually scored as part of a five card straight here, skipping the K, 10, 8.
Yeah I was tired when I wrote that original comment.
There’s the 7-9-J-Q four card straight flush
There’s also the A-Q-J-9straight, but I think it doesn’t count as a straight flush.
I dunno, I am always pleasantly surprised when things are actually straight flushes with those two jokers
Sorry, I misspoke. It's still scored because if either set is 4 or 5 cards, it's scored.
You can have a straight on one end and a flush on the other end, and as long as at least 4 cards are in either set, it's still a straight flush. And all cards that work with either set counts in scoring.
It's because the hand joker card there allows straights and flushes to be made with 4 cards, so the 4 black suited cards make a flush, and the gapped sequence makes a straight, since both hands are made together it counts as straight flush. You can ignore the ace. It can get weirder because you can make a 4 card straight and toss another card unrelated but with the same suit as 3 of the straight cards and it still counts as straight flush.
In fact, since we already have a straight with the first 4 cards, we can replace that 7 with any other black card and still have a straight flush. Can even be a 2nd Jack.