Balatro - This Isn't My Poker Face, I Just Don't Know How To Play Poker
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Balatro is an utterly compelling poker-roguelike that's curiously not really about playing poker, but instead about using magic and astronomy to cheat at it...
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Sorry tonight's video is so late - I've been working all day on Something Special for Saturday...
Democracy Week?
It's fine. I'm really looking forward to Saturdays video now.
thank god I was having a little panic not having anything to fall asleep to
What a tease. Fallout 4 Remastered: Kill Everything INCOMING??
@@8willman I am hoping for Fallout 4 Randomiser, War of the Commonwealth, No Guns, YOLO.
I wander how far Jon would make it in that situation.
Jon absolutely refusing to play 2s and 3s in flushes and discarding them and passing them over for enhancements for non-Fibonacci cards is just perfect.
Fibonacci was literally the reason he was winning, but he kept on forcing flushes
Well it wouldn't be Jon if he wasn't fumbling a bit. Honestly there's a bunch of stuff he could have done better but he's new so I wouldn't expect him to know the meta. It helps for the early antes to save your money because not only do you generate money by winning in as few hands as possible but also you begin to earn interest after each blind once you have enough money in the bank. Jon never had more than $10 usually but when you save your money you start to get up to the 20s to 40s easily. Like he noticed in the end, investing in planet cards goes a long way but it helps to focus on leveling more than one kind of hand, having options is nice. Don't be afraid of the reroll button at shops as well, once you've built up a good nest egg you can afford to do it more often and find jokers that might compliment your deck better as well as having more chances of seeing planetary packs.
Overall he did okay for a new player but he should have realized he was stagnating a bit with his largest hands were never going much past 13,000. I think he could have tried to feed the cannibal Joker more, especially that one that only added chips based on deck size, it really wasn't contributing much and would have been better off adding to the other joker's mult. He also underestimated how powerful ×mult is, which could have carried him further.
@@Caio22011even when he was flushing his cards down the toilet he did flush his 2s and 3s. I don't know if he REALLY knows the Fibonacci sequence.
Definitely one that I'm buying to play "properly" after watching Jon.
17:00 Got a straight ten to Ace - uses 2 pair instead.
Drives me bonkers. Lol
Came to the comments specifically because of that hand haha
This needs to be a livestream - people will pay a fortune to shout at you!
Lets be honest while a lot of us know Jon from his yolo runs, a lot of the fun of his channel is seeing the oxbridge educated M&S fan miss things we think are obvious (because we aren't playing the game and talking over it for entertainment purposes at the same time)
It's actually why I as a Star Trek fan want Jon to play a Star Trek game. I want to be know how Americans or Interior designers feel when he plays games.
Whoa, this is a new one! Instead of stopping and buying the game Jon got 5 minutes into the video, I went and bought the game 5 minutes BEFORE he posted his video. I'm getting better at this!
Your user name really adds a lot to this comment 😂
Reading these comments im increasingly feeling like the game of snap is not as universal as i would have previously thought
Ikr!
not gonna lie, i have no idea what snap is
Jon can only understand poker, one of the most common and easy to understand card games by reference to a card game literally nobody else has heard of. Completely on brand.
Snap is probably the most common card game for kids in the UK, or at least it was when I was young (I'm roughly Jon's age). You take it in turns placing one card down at a time, and as soon as you get a match - two kings, for example - you hit the cards and say "snap!". Quickest wins the pile. The winner is the one who has all the cards at the end. Incredibly simple, hence it's appeal to little kids.
Even Australians know snap? Americans are the weird ones here
I'm an American and know snap. It's not uncommon at all.
@@feasibleIt really depends on the culture where you are. I am from the Midwest of the US and although I've never heard of Snap in my life, but after looking it up I have played a couple very similar games, Egyptian Ratscrew and Slapjack
I havent heard of it till like 10 years ago when i was 19 though people call it Slap but its the same thing
Balatro is like crack on the Steam Deck
Addictive, Mesmerizing, and makes you wonder how you actually play poker.
I’ve got it on my switch. I’ve literally been dreaming about it, and thinking how I could solve so many problems if I could just get a steel card.
Just want to shout out Balatro's spiritual predecessor, Roll, which has been one of my underground favorite games of the past few years. Basically Balatro for Craps, and trading the Slot Machine-style flash for a very zen black and white aesthetic.
I screamed when jon threw away the chips per deck joker. The thing was generations 4000-8000 points a hand!
The rocket ship joker at 13:50 is a bit misleadingly labeled, it's a lot more powerful than it sounds. You get $1 per round _to start._ Each time you beat a boss, that number goes up by $2 -- so after you beat a boss you start getting $3 per round, then $5, etc. Good way to build up economy.
He got it too late to be worth bothering with.
@@tournesol99 How do you figure? It was only the second ante, and he was ahead of the score curve. Good time to be investing in cash economy, especially when there weren't any sexier options.
@@Skatche I completely misread the timecode there, my bad.
Man, it's refreshing to watch someone who's just starting this game. I had too many hours in the demo, and I have every item in the collection unlocked. It makes me smile when he gets super excited about tens of thousands of points, when I just lost a run because a 27-billion-point hand was less than 10% of the score needed to advance.
Jon throwing that straight with the fib numbers (Ace, 2, 3 and 5) and 3 spades away at the end in the hopes of getting the last few spades for a flush hurt my head. There were 20 cards in the deck, 6 of which were spades, 4 of which are the only viable ones. He threw it away for a 1 in 5 shot. Actually no, it was 1 in 5 for getting a single spade, he needed TWO spades for the flush.
It's called a blind because the blinds in normal poker are mandatory bets you have to do before getting your cards
Balatro is basically Poker the sequel.
Gotta love when Jon says "Good afternoon laysh geltmun" at the beginning of the video.
My current game of the year, but as a poker player, watching you play drives me crazy.
Mine too. Jon not understanding poker will never not be entertaining.
lol
But it's just like Snap! :D /s
I was kind of watching the live stream version (in the future) and he at some point, after being advised he was concentrated too much on flushes, he said 'no such thing'. He'd be a terrible poker player irl. I'm not actually understanding this game because of all the magic stuff. It's just confusing me.
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1:11 Jon is saying this with SUCH confidence like everyone knows what Snap is ... ¿WHAT IS SNAP?
Marvel snap?
how do you not know snap lmao. most basic card game there is
@@PONCHOGUY100 I may know it just not by that name. I've never heard of a card game called snap.
@@Mistwolfss You deal out a deck amongst two or more players, face down. Each player takes turns taking the top card of their pile and placing it in the center face-up. If two cards of the same rank are placed on top of each other, all the players must lunge forward to slap their hand onto the pile and call 'Snap!' - the first to do so collects the center pile, flips it face-down, and places it underneath his existing pile. Winner is the player who collects the entire deck for himself.
The most efficient way to ruin a deck of cards by folding them all.
Best thing about the planets is you put yourself in insane scenarios like I’m sitting on a full house but I’ve buffed two pair so much that playing a full house is worse for me than two pair. This game needs to be a livestream so Claire can manage everyone yelling at you everytime you play something “wrong”.
Jon seeing all the bonuses from Spades and going "I should convert a bunch of cards to diamonds" was so confusing to me watching
You can also get more money by saving between shops. You get $1 per $5 saved, up to a max of $5 earned at $25 saved.
"Hey guys, I think he might be cheating" -The rest of the table.
Alright, who else has paused their current game of Balatro in order to watch Jon play? :P
And which of you lucky folks have multiple monitors and are continuing to play Balatro while watching Jon play? :P
I’m on the road right now, have this playing on my iPhone and I just lost a promising run on ante 7 on my switch.
I would love to see this game just appear as short extra videos now and then. Watching Jon try to be strategic with numbers is always fun.
Apparently Snap = "Slapjack", which is what I knew it as being American
So many hands Jon was playing only 4 cards when we could have scored and gotten rid of one more
Hey Jon, American here! I saw roughly about ten to 15 minutes of the video in where you explained poker was akin to a matching game but did admit it’s a bit more complex like counting. So me being the loyal viewer I am instantly got my friend group of about 7 to play actual poker! I did in fact lose the 5 l$ I had found in my car that I bet! But it did help me w my poker face so thanks for that!
Really hoping this becomes a series!
How would he do a series on a roguelike with no story? I could see him doing a few livestreams, sort of like what he did with Slay the Spire, but this doesn't have much series potential unfortunately I think. I know he's done FTL series but that's also a little different and I don't think he's nearly as passionate about this game or would know how to make a short series out of Balatro even if he was.
@@donovanfaust3227 yeah, he isnt NL...
Jon, a poker hand is 5 cards. Even when you have 2 pairs, throw in a fifth card.
10:05 WHY WOULD YOU NOT GO WITH THE ACES AND FIVES!?
Honestly painful.
Oh god this game is basically a poker version of Inscryption's Kaycee's mod............this will be perfect for my deck
Can't believe you sacrificed the joker that was giving you 10,000 points a hand! No wonder you started feeling weak the instant you did so. 110 chips a hand when you have a 90x Mult on every single hand. . .Is about 9,900 points a hand. You never would have lost.
Entry 73 of asking Jon to play the original command and conquer
Entry 74 in this long endeavor of command and conquer Jon must know …. KANE…
just send him a bunch of money....I liked C&C but unless he does a full run, I would prefer he didn't. I hate seeing one offs of games I like here.
@@ravinraven6913entry 75 of asking John to do a full playthrough of the original command and conquer, and dang this video was uploaded late.
@@ccspludge7208 petition # 76 of asking for a full playthrough of the original command and conquer
Journal Entry 76 Jon why haven’t you played the original command and conquer it’s an awesome series
The description for this video is fantastic
There is a deck that starts with the Telescope Voucher. Basically if you buy a planet card pack you'll get your most played hand as an option every time. Tried it with High Card and ended with it upgraded to level 16 :) So if you have the right setup you can win with the 'worst' hand in the game!
There are 3 secret hands that only show up in the list of hands once you've played at least one in the run. The flush house which is a full house but all of the same suit. The five of a kind which is five cards of the same rank, and the flush five which is five of a kind but all in the same suit. You also won't get planet cards for these hands until you've played them for the first time in each run.
What's really interesting is that lower scoring hands like 2 two pair, pair, and high card are really easy to buff but high scoring hands like strait flush and four of a kind take much more work to build towards.
LOVE THIS GAME.
It's called a blind because it's the bet you make before you've seen your cards. A small blind is half the big blind. The big blind is equal to the minimum bet set by the dealer. So if the minimum bet is $5 the Big Blind is $5 and the small blind is $2.50. There's more to it than that but that's the gist.
I was hoping you'd play this game. Ive been having a blast with it! Hope to see more!
6:38 I see what you did there, Jon.
In one run, I got Flush to lvl. 10, roughly half of my deck was diamonds, and I had a Joker that added 4 mult. whenever a diamond was scored.
See, I was trained by Luigi on Mario 64 DS, so we're equal there.
That said, there's some settings in the Accessibility Options you may want to tick on/off -- things like turning off screen shake, higher vis cards (seriously, it makes the clubs blue and the diamonds more yellow), and faster animation speed. Long term, these just make things smoother.
the pants are infinite scaling, and you fed it to the knife, but then stopped feeding your knife, and then at the end you thought your mistake was not buying more planets? smh.
I learnt Poker by thinking it was Yahtzee but Cards; which it probably literally backwards from what actually happened.
1st game I played and thought, cant wait for Jon to find this
I need this as a live stream
I know the A is the ace but I keep reading the title of this game as Baltro, who was a husky right?
That was Balto.
Jon: Space Joker, how *dare* you use one of your unlimited number of upgrades on Four of a Kind, don't you know focusing on a certain thing means other things aren't allowed to get better no matter what? Anyway, wow, this Four of a Kind hand got me a lot of points!
I avoided this because “poker” but it actually looks incredible!!
Nice.
This game is so wonderful! :) I have been debating whether or not to buy it and now I know that it is fully worth it! :) I hope it will become a Livestream material! :)
I have seen this game, even wish listed it and after seeing this I am probably going to get it.
Same 😊
People all saying that jon missed some tricks
Am i the only one who freaked when he sacrificed the blue joker over the wrathful joker?
15:41
Za Warudo!
I am the ace of hearts*
Jon, if you play more of this, the rocket, in my mind, is rather good for economy. The wording is a bit misleading, but the card GAINS 2 dollars when boss blind is defeated, so the next blind gives you 3, after the next boss each round would give you 5 dollars etc etc.
The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed.
I don't think I've ever seen a poker game that has less to do with poker than this. What is even happening?
What do you mean? You've never played a game of poker with 40 aces in the deck 😂
@@tzera_rhuonI have never played poker with 40 aces in the deck. Up my sleeve is a whole different thing 😂😂
Right? I''m baffled. I tried watching the live stream (it's Thursday in the future) and was immediately confused. Jon's comparing it to Snap makes zero sense so that's no help. The only relationship to poker seems to be the hands. Based on the live streams Jon seems to think only flushes are worth trying for. Maybe that's true with this game? But I can't imagine how you'd manage ever winning a hand if you ignored all the lesser hands. His comparing it to Snap confuses the issue even more. It's nothing like Snap except that their are pairs involved.
@Mixxie67 Flushes are the easiest hand to play by virtue of how many cards are drawn (8+), and the numerous ways to remove cards or alter their suits. This is mitigated by the score of flush hands scaling terribly in later antes.
In short, there are 8 antes with three blinds each; the 3rd blind in each ante is considered a "boss" and usually negates some aspect of your deck. Each ante increases the score needed to succeed (so the very first blind requires 300 points, the last 100k). The deck played determines how many hands and discards can be used per blind.
Score is determined by chips x mult(iplier), which is set by the degree of difficulty of each hand type (straight-flush scores higher than high-card obviously). Cards played will score their numerical value in chips as well.
Joker cards are used mainly to augment the number of chips or mult a hand will score. Planet cards will upgrade a certain hand type, thus scoring more chip/mult if that hand type is played (Earth upgrades full-house, Saturn upgrades straight, Jupiter upgrades flush etc). Tarot cards modify the cards in the deck in some way (changing their suit, upgrading their rank, copying other cards, removing cards from the deck).
The hope is to assemble a group of jokers, upgrade hand types, and rig the deck in such a way that you can consistently score your most valuable hand (which are *not* always the most difficult either ~ my best score overall was with a high-card build)
@@tzera_rhuon Thanks! I feel bad you went thru so much trouble to explain this game so thoroughly to me because I will never play it. I kind of got it after rewatching. Definitely not my thing, though.
Nice music!
Balatro live stream please!!!
Would whatever is making that noise stop it! No?!
I'm losing it. I'm yelling at some sound echoing through an endless black void I am suspended in. I've absolutely gone insane.
Day 0054/1230 of requesting Jon read Macbeth to us with accompanying funny voices for the characters.
Jon plays a dead man’s hand and then immediately loses.
James Bond actually originally played Baccarat, it was changed later because poker was more popular.............................
Love how Jon totally missed getting the extra hand voucher...........😁😁
Reroll is $5 or you can spend $10 to make it cost $2.
Star Control Date 0046!
I really feel like we're picking up steam now.
Speaking of Steam... did you know you can play a modern port of Star Control 2 for free on Steam? It's called "Free Stars - The Ur-Quan Masters". Crazy, the things you can do with computers these days...
Now that that non sequitur is out of the way, I'd like to humbly and promptly request that Jon play Star Control 2 (wait a minute... that's that game from my random steam-related factoid!! what are the chances??).
It is, after all, his favorite game. Regardless of whether or not he knows it.
Thank you very much, and good bye.
I fear I’d struggle because I do understand how to play poker…
I got this for my brother because he says he only plays games in the evening, when he is too tired to tackle anything too demanding. I thought this would be ideal. There is thought involved, but really how much thought is up to the player.
He spent two hours teaching himself the rules. How do you help somebody like that?
Another great small game. If you ever decide to stop making lets plays i hope you get into game review. You find some great diamonds in the rough
Keeps playing non fib cards with a 2 in hand....
The reviewers for this game seem to have a decent amount of hours played.
Dude, YES!!!
17 mins in. You had a royal straight. 10 to ace.....
Plus at the end you had another sraight....
if poker is so good where's poker 2
poker 2:
this game is immensely addictive and ive been (slowly) working my way towards 100% completion lol
Day 53 of requesting _Age of Mythology_
Today's book suggestion is _Hoyle's Games_ by Edmund Hoyle. Jon's pretty excited about playing card games, so I thought I'd suggest something that would help him out with learning some new tricks. Also, did my recommendation from yesterday disappear?
What is snap?
I love watching balatro videos but I always get annoyed with some plays 😂. Always feed the knife, it gets you a higher multiplier, and it leaves you a joker space when you're in the shop. I would have knifed the spade joker and astronaut instead of holding on to them.
Wow!
I did not understand anything in this video.
I've tried actual poker before and did not understand any of it.
I think my brain has a blind spot for poker - it just makes no sense!
This game, from what I'm seeing, has very little to do with actual poker except for the hands involved.
Know what's funny? i was watching the Starfield series recently and just finished yesterday i think the episode where you go collect the debt from a guy for the bank and you literally said you don't know poker =)))))))))))))
Thanks for this video. I've been thinking about buying the game. With your video, it is easier to get a feeling for the gameplay before buying it.🙂👍
Jon... whats snap? I know poker but not snap
The term 'snap' can precede any poker action to indicate that the action was taken immediately without any form of hesitation. For example, if our opponent calls our bet instantly it is referred to as a snap call
@@ravinraven6913 that's not what he was talking about though? He acted like snap was a different game
@@gabrielbarron7667 Snap is a card game present in most of the Commonwealth countries. Very easy - you sit facing one another, and each get half a deck. You deal cards one at a time onto a central pile. If the card you place is the same value as the card on top of the pile, you have to yell 'snap' and touch the pile. First one to touch the pile means the opponent gets all the cards in the pile, and you continue until one player is out of cards and wins - or you could do it where the winner gets the pile, and then the person who is out of cards is the loser at the end. It's really simple, based on reactions. It's a common playground game.
it's always funny when someone says they don't know how to play poker. I would usually say, whats next, you don't understand how to play pictionary or know how to count or know face cards are worth more based on their royalty? except jack, I don't get it, it was called knave, but that still doesn't make sense why its not a prince or something like that.
but basically poker is like memory but with a hand...so kinda like go fish
@Jon The reason James bond can make poker classy is because it not a game about making hands, its about your hand in relationship to others. It is all about probabilities and social abilities. Video games cant capture what makes poker really work. I tied with a professional poker player in my neighborhood through just reading people and perception deception/manipulation. He would have won, but I made it such a confusing grind he just gave upXD
for the love of all that is sweet in this world - why care about this game ( watched play through two times, 100% mystified by the enthusiasm for this )
Roguelikes are addicting because of the randomness, it's like gambling. Poker is also gambling. It's a double snap of gambling or something.
I'm with you. I know how to play poker and this is baffling. I don't know from deck builder games though.
first?
and then? Technically you are two minutes too late, jon posted a comment before you.
What even is "Snap" in this case?
My thoughts exactly. Sounds like a drinking or maybe stripping game but I really have no clue. Poker on the other hand, Ive known my whole life
I have no idea. But if I had to guess, I’m gonna bet it’s something that involves a lot of….
B R I T I S H
@@silentortoise3627well Strip Poker is a thing sooo maybe that's it
i figured everyone knew snap haha
if you're from the US its in the same style as ERS or slapjack. a group takes turns place cards in a pile till something is met (in snap i believes its two of the same value card in the row) and you slap it to claim the pile.
Told Jon this was the best game from the Steam Fest so I'm glad he finally played it. It's addictive AF.
It's called a Blind because in a standard game of poker it's money you have to wager on the hand "blind" meaning before you've seen your hand. Typically the big and small blind rotate around the table as hands are played with the small blind being half the big blind.
It's the game the main character in Hotline Miami pays
If you're looking for more Balatro content after watching this then check out Northernlion, he has a large backlog of videos at this point.
Hey Jon, fun video, one thing though, James Bond mostly played baccara, not poker :)
For once I’m watching Jon play a game I’ve already played quite a lot of… and he somehow doesn’t know how poker works except in reference to a game I’ve never heard of that he seems to think everyone knows?
Lots of people know what Snap is. You may know it by another name. It isn't Poker unless his version of Snap was very, very slow. The idea of Snap is everyone is dealt the cards from a full deck and take turns flipping them over quickly as possible. The first one to spot a consecutive pair (i.e., a 2 followed by a 2) slaps their hand down on the cards and yells Snap. They get that hand and all the cards beneath the hand. I don't know how Jon thinks that's like Poker.
Jon, you have no idea how relatable that title is.
My favorite FPS of all time is Wolfeinstein: Enemy Territory, which was built on the Q3 arena engine. I put something close to 67k hours into the game, and you eventually hit a point where you get bored of the normal game play. I got pretty invested in the trick jumping scene and really enjoyed the break from the norm.
It had such an impact on me that I'm specifically trying to recreate the physics in an MMO 1st person RPG I'm developing.