@@skreebim9612 As a trusting person I was going to believe you at face value, but chat's outstanding incorrect amount of information otherwise has left me less than trusting for this game so I don't believe you.
Every time NL talks about the game he's playing or relates a personal story the content is gold. Every time he interacts with chat I want to change the channel. I understand streaming helps his business model, but his chat is trash. Literally nothing but bad memes and stupid bitching. He has the worst viewers of any streamer I watch.
@@michaellaporte4951 I'm still holding out hope Wildfrost will come back eventually... Even if it's just for a RUclips series, he made like one video with an official thumbnail and then stopped playing :'(
@absentchronicler9063 dude I was gonna leave a comment saying the opposite, watching this with chat was way more fun than without. I wanna see nl clown on idiots in chat who don't know how poker works
About the Flash: Did film science for a year. Using third person perspective in movies doesn't really work, while it works very well in video games. Seeing character's faces is much more important in movies than in video games. When watching something, the emotional value often lies in facial expressions etc. When playing a game the actual immersion is much more important.
8:08 he had an open ended straight flush draw if he kept the 10, and one of the two options, the 9 of spades, even shows up after the discard. That would have been a delicious point total.
If he simply kept the 10 he wouldn't have gotten the 9 tho, since it was the third card drawn. He would've had to discard another card or discard twice.
This is the first game since NL went mainly streamer mode where I've wished he was just doing youtube still. The backseating is grinding even my gears, can't imagine what it's like for NL. Shame cause it's a fantastic game
I feel like the tarot joker made sense, but was cute more than it was helpful. I think if he ate that one and kept something to generate chips this run could have picked up a lot of momentum in the next ante or 2
Seeing him be one card short of a royal flush opening hand on the first boss was soul crushing because I knew he was gonna break it immediately after being yelled at about straights but chat. Seeing him get the 9 of spades immediately after killed me.
I know that this game hasn't been released yet, but please, @LocalThunk, I would be grateful if this pog filled masterpiece came out on MacOS or any console (preferably Switch / PS5). Thank you so much!
Blue deck is strictly better than red deck. You have one less discard, but one more hand. And a hand is just a discard with the ability to score points.
Most of the time that’s true but, his winning run from last vid would have lost most of its multiplier from playing a face card so discarding them is better in that scenario.
Hats off to the poker pro who unironically said straights in poker can wrap around with the ace, playing 3 2 ace king queen, all because he seen aces played as both 1 and 14 😔
Seems like flushes aren't the right play with a lot of the jokers? Kind of like pai gow poker where you may not play your best possible hand because you need to beat both of the dealer's hands to win
I worry about the replayability of this game. I feel like on every single run, pair builds become so obviously the best way to go? I want this game to be perfect so badly that perhaps I’m being overly critical. Just feels like it’s pair builds or fail.
This is a demo, and it's a demo that doesn't even have all the content within it unlocked. With only 2 options in the shop and expensive rerolls, sometimes you won't be allowed to build a pair deck.
Yeah honestly every hand needs a "multiplier multiplier" as in the 1.5x mult and 2x mult that some jokers give, and it needs to be unchangeable. Right now it's so easy to make a pair, or two pair as good as a flush/straight/full house, that it's insane, and the current system doesn't really allow for a way to change that. If say pair gave no mult, 2 pair gave a 1.2 mult, straight a 1.5, flush a 1.6 etc. justifying hard to play hands would be way easier.
I agree with you. Pairs are obviously the easiest hand to make and yet it’s quite easy to make them be strong enough to beat the game… that just seems wrong. There’s little reason to chase better hands
@@chrishoward8500 I think the issue is how much power lies in the jokers as the game progresses. You start playing poker, where it makes sense to chase better hands for more reward, but soon the reliability of pairs becomes much more appealing because the massive multipliers make the difference between a pair and something like a full house negligible (and in many cases the pair is even better if you've built that way) but the full house is minimally easier to achieve than it was in the first round. Then you are basically just playing jokers rather than poker hands, which to me is a bit boring since its the same thing every round - just do whatever requires minimal resources to extract the value from your jokers - eg play small hands like pairs to trigger them. There needs to be less power in jokers, especially multipliers of multipliers are a huge problem to encourage players to continue to engage in the core mechanics of the game. Maybe more power shifted toward modifying the deck as well so you have more opportunities to stack a suit or put extra copies of aces or whatever, you can do this occasionally but its so much more consistent to just get 300x multiplier every hand rather than try and chase a chance to draw an extra few hearts. If you look at NLs first win, every hand toward the end is literally just his jokers scoring insane points by stacking both the points and the multiplier for the points. He can play literally anything, it doesn't matter because the jokers are the only things that matter.
people in chat talking about wraps,are blowing my mind, Omaha is what wraps are used in, and there's no river in this game, they're from another dimension or they've never actually played cards and they're just saying buzzwords, NL was right to bully them if they're allcaps spamming about that.
Balatro is the greatest dopamine generator since vampire survivors
Don’t disrespect dome keeper like that
Vampire survivors 🤤
@@nirboom I mean it's fine for someone to not say Dome Keeper if they've never played Dome Keeper
@@nirboom dome keeper kinda mid tbh
"'You bullied him out of chat'? Honestly good." sent me to the stratosphere
Flush discard on hand 1 is so perfectly on brand
not to mention had he not tossed the 10 of Spades, he would have drawn into the straight flush 9-K
on the boss too, discarding a flush to keep his 2 pair :D
Balatro has got me pogging my gourd up
Hell yea brother
who’s gonna tell him
who's up pogging their gourd
Based Prodigy fan. "Pog my gourd up! [siren]"
Yea. I ran out the demo too quick.
The sheer INDIGNATION that this man embodied when chat started in on the straight talk
At least he was humble enough to admit he has trouble identifying a flush.
the uninterrupted 3 minutes where every backseating chat message is wrong is so good
First hand of the full game and my man dumps a flush. This is gonna be a great series.
First hand of the boss and NL had 4 to a straight flush and dumps the ten of spades.
+2, i love it when it happens as im reading the comment
@@grant9904 and he would have got there too cause he drew into the 9 of spades right after.
@@grant9904 especially cuz he already had a flush, he only had to dump all non spades
The fucked up rule bending some chatters engage in for poker is WILD to me
wdym?
@@JS-oh2dp J Q K A 2 literally does count as a straight in this game though
@@skreebim9612 As a trusting person I was going to believe you at face value, but chat's outstanding incorrect amount of information otherwise has left me less than trusting for this game so I don't believe you.
@@skreebim9612me when I spread disinformation on the internet
“Are you a ten denier? 9, jack, queen, king, ace?” This fucking SENT me 😂
Honestly the whole 4:30 covo is amazing.
"We're not just gonna run Red Deck over and over"
MtG players when Lightning Bolt isn't in Standard.
This series has highlighted to me that the average person has no idea what poker hands are
Chat trying to call out the wrap around straight had me going
I love this game but I'm afraid that the backseating potential might kill it as a series. Chat finds a way to ruin many things.
Every time NL talks about the game he's playing or relates a personal story the content is gold. Every time he interacts with chat I want to change the channel.
I understand streaming helps his business model, but his chat is trash. Literally nothing but bad memes and stupid bitching. He has the worst viewers of any streamer I watch.
Weeps in Wildfrost
@@michaellaporte4951 I'm still holding out hope Wildfrost will come back eventually... Even if it's just for a RUclips series, he made like one video with an official thumbnail and then stopped playing :'(
@@wangledteb5671 It'll prolly get an update or expansion at some point.
Im loving this game so far and am excited to see more; i just hope chat stops the insane incessant backseating, let the man cook lol
How are twitch chatters always this obnoxious? It's actually slightly incredible
It's thousands of people actively chatting, and the obnoxious ones stand out.
@@gooblopit's astonishing to me why people are even chatting. 99% messages get lost anyway, what's the point
I hate twitch chat, i always turn it off. It's annoying and it distracts me from the stream
@absentchronicler9063 dude I was gonna leave a comment saying the opposite, watching this with chat was way more fun than without. I wanna see nl clown on idiots in chat who don't know how poker works
@@SerbianKnifeFight to each their own
Seven minutes in, and I can already see this starting to become a RUclips series lol. Chat is unbelievable sometimes, man.
I never would've guessed that Four-fingered Joker could give you a Straight Flush without you having a Straight Flush. That's so cool.
Fish for a flush should've been the upload name.
About the Flash: Did film science for a year. Using third person perspective in movies doesn't really work, while it works very well in video games. Seeing character's faces is much more important in movies than in video games. When watching something, the emotional value often lies in facial expressions etc. When playing a game the actual immersion is much more important.
gotta love the opening hand missed flush. gonna be a wild ride.
Missing flushes seems like a consistent theme amongst these videos
8:08 he had an open ended straight flush draw if he kept the 10, and one of the two options, the 9 of spades, even shows up after the discard. That would have been a delicious point total.
If he simply kept the 10 he wouldn't have gotten the 9 tho, since it was the third card drawn. He would've had to discard another card or discard twice.
31:12 pardon?
“We are all in here”
*checks time*
Yup looks about right
Binged this game last night, happy to see more!
luck be a landlord walked so balatro can run
Imagine if Vancouver had an NBA team. The NL banter would be wild.
This is the first game since NL went mainly streamer mode where I've wished he was just doing youtube still. The backseating is grinding even my gears, can't imagine what it's like for NL. Shame cause it's a fantastic game
The fact he didn’t get that interest card in the early game and then turned around talking about farming money had me screaming. Never change
Quit playing a game I can't have
31:12 i always wished hed say this to me
the pair with the ace and straight didnt work because the knife got rid of the ace the shop prior ;-;
So weird seeing that King start after the last run.
I feel like the tarot joker made sense, but was cute more than it was helpful. I think if he ate that one and kept something to generate chips this run could have picked up a lot of momentum in the next ante or 2
The egg suffers so heavily from recency bias
Chat really brought down the vibes on this one😅
NL mentioning Nate Silver just made my day; two of my nerd-worlds colliding!
Enelle needs to have a no backseating rule in chat. Send the kids to timeout
Seeing him be one card short of a royal flush opening hand on the first boss was soul crushing because I knew he was gonna break it immediately after being yelled at about straights but chat. Seeing him get the 9 of spades immediately after killed me.
Royal Flush is A, K, Q, J, 10 of the same suit. 9 doesn't factor in.
Love hearing NL talk about the nba even though he doesnt watch. Immediately grabs my attention no matter how little attention i am paying to the video
I need to play this! It's now on my wish list.
First play discards his flush. We are so back
I trust the devs in their choice to work on this game until october but god I want to play it so bad
I really hope chat doesn’t ruin this for everyone. This is a great game and I love watching NL play it.
Chat saves his butt half of the time though haha
And do you know when to run? Never count your money when you're sitting at the table. There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.
First hand. Has a flush. Tosses it.
Never change Egg Man
I know that this game hasn't been released yet, but please, @LocalThunk, I would be grateful if this pog filled masterpiece came out on MacOS or any console (preferably Switch / PS5). Thank you so much!
It's kinda funny that he started his flush build run off by missing a flush.
Pogged up for full release
Chat please don’t backseat this to death
Maaan, so sad test is over, I'd love to partake in beta test 😢😢😢
Blue deck is strictly better than red deck. You have one less discard, but one more hand. And a hand is just a discard with the ability to score points.
Most of the time that’s true but, his winning run from last vid would have lost most of its multiplier from playing a face card so discarding them is better in that scenario.
There's also some jokers that specifically synergize with discards
however the telescope deck seems wild
getting lvl 10 hands is poggin me up
I love the actual poker talk LMAO he knows the Brunson that's sick
Hats off to the poker pro who unironically said straights in poker can wrap around with the ace, playing 3 2 ace king queen, all because he seen aces played as both 1 and 14 😔
never played poker in my life, love these videos tho
14:20 Is NL superstitious? Looks like he intentionally avoided the dead man's hand here lol
I have now learned what a dead man's hand is.
@@Depressed_Spiderit has to be black aces and eights iirc.
He's not superstitious but he's a little stitious
Nah, it was better for straights on the next turn
"I'll buy and use Uranus"...if I had a dollar for every time a John said that to me I'd have about $11.
that full house in the end could have barely made it if he had 10 as his lowest remaining card . it would have been (80+44)*28+12532=16004
i dont think he ever sees a flush when he has one
I'm only halfway through the video, but Raised Fist seems like an insanely powerful joker
I already watched a 20 minute clip of this yet am somehow only just now realizing a complete hand is 5 cards and not 4.
The amount of pure dopamine generated by this game has me absolutely pogging out of my mf gourd.
1st hand and the egg already says no to a flush
when he played the pair, people.
why is the V in Venus so different from the V in voucher
So excited for this game and Dark and Darker that I'm on pause until they release. Put me in cryo, please.
I wonder if the Dev intentionally made the Tooth look both like a minimalist tooth, but also kind of like the Wario emblem.
Doubt.
This game really needs an option to change to four card colors instead of two, I don't think NL knows about flushes.
There are 4 colors, the red and black are slightly different hues
This is why chat was always wrong? Because they thought there are only two suits?
You mean a full on Five Crowns style?
I dig it.
Two uploads at once? Consider me pegged out of my gourd
Uh oh, we're 6 minutes in and he's been yelling at chat for half the time. Cmon man you've said it yourself, don't let them get in your head!
Dang i was just looking to see if you posted and boom its here.
Grinding out my pog receptors watching this game
Egg man lost his mind on Denver take....
I literally can’t with chat. Chat saying there is a straight when he has 3 cards in a row makes me go insane
31:13 😳
Call him an indochino sales rep the way he's suit blind
Seems like flushes aren't the right play with a lot of the jokers? Kind of like pai gow poker where you may not play your best possible hand because you need to beat both of the dealer's hands to win
It's Luck Be a Landlord, but with cards! double pog!
He sure hates using his discards
i’m watching this with low quality, and let me tell you, the ’venus’ does not look like it says venus…
Very first hand he discards a flush lol
I worry about the replayability of this game. I feel like on every single run, pair builds become so obviously the best way to go? I want this game to be perfect so badly that perhaps I’m being overly critical. Just feels like it’s pair builds or fail.
This is a demo, and it's a demo that doesn't even have all the content within it unlocked. With only 2 options in the shop and expensive rerolls, sometimes you won't be allowed to build a pair deck.
Yeah, it is probably possible to win with some other decks but the pair deck is obviously way too easy and strong
Yeah honestly every hand needs a "multiplier multiplier" as in the 1.5x mult and 2x mult that some jokers give, and it needs to be unchangeable. Right now it's so easy to make a pair, or two pair as good as a flush/straight/full house, that it's insane, and the current system doesn't really allow for a way to change that.
If say pair gave no mult, 2 pair gave a 1.2 mult, straight a 1.5, flush a 1.6 etc. justifying hard to play hands would be way easier.
I agree with you. Pairs are obviously the easiest hand to make and yet it’s quite easy to make them be strong enough to beat the game… that just seems wrong. There’s little reason to chase better hands
@@chrishoward8500 I think the issue is how much power lies in the jokers as the game progresses. You start playing poker, where it makes sense to chase better hands for more reward, but soon the reliability of pairs becomes much more appealing because the massive multipliers make the difference between a pair and something like a full house negligible (and in many cases the pair is even better if you've built that way) but the full house is minimally easier to achieve than it was in the first round. Then you are basically just playing jokers rather than poker hands, which to me is a bit boring since its the same thing every round - just do whatever requires minimal resources to extract the value from your jokers - eg play small hands like pairs to trigger them. There needs to be less power in jokers, especially multipliers of multipliers are a huge problem to encourage players to continue to engage in the core mechanics of the game. Maybe more power shifted toward modifying the deck as well so you have more opportunities to stack a suit or put extra copies of aces or whatever, you can do this occasionally but its so much more consistent to just get 300x multiplier every hand rather than try and chase a chance to draw an extra few hearts.
If you look at NLs first win, every hand toward the end is literally just his jokers scoring insane points by stacking both the points and the multiplier for the points. He can play literally anything, it doesn't matter because the jokers are the only things that matter.
Great series, love how NL is sticking to the Flushblind bit.
Flushes missed: 2
Edit: wow this vid really turned it around.
Yeah this game is going to be so fun.
Love the Balatro
people in chat talking about wraps,are blowing my mind, Omaha is what wraps are used in, and there's no river in this game, they're from another dimension or they've never actually played cards and they're just saying buzzwords, NL was right to bully them if they're allcaps spamming about that.
Can't believe he got rid of odd todd and not the 8 ball 😫
I can foresee NL rage quitting in the future due to backseaters 😂😂
"Eat it blow me ect,ect" xDD
Discard the duplicates to get better odds on flush or straight!!!!!!
i want to play this game so fuckin bad
31:11
Balatro coming to phones??
I was dead sure that read "penus"
The pair wouldve helped but you ate the pair buffing joker...
Please don’t let chat ruin this game I love it.
27:38 just for me
I'm hyped i love this game
13 years ago jay foreman released a video titled the unfinished northern lion And you know what? I think we today saw the finished northern lion
Are you a 10 denier? had me rolling.