A beginner’s guide to dominating Balatro. Everything you need to beat antes 1-8.

Balatro is a nice balance between players going greedy, loss aversion, fear of change and the paradox of choice. Greed is trying to god roll a specific build in a game with randomness, it's a dice roll, it may happen but if it don't, you need to adapt, also it may take a while to gather the puzzle pieces and you need to survive until it happen.

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Mar 13, 2024 · Hey, r/games! I am localthunk, the developer and artist for Balatro, and today I'm joined by my publisher Playstack. We launched Balatro on 20th Feb and so far the game has gotten a lot of love from fans and community We’re here …

A little bit of meta commentary to begin. Balatro is fairly akin to rogue-likes such as Rogue Legacy, specifically in that each run will actually give you more to work with for the following run, Rogue Legacy does this with the castle upgrades etc, Balatro does this …

Feb 22, 2024 · I mean the idea is you need to have a bunch of played hands in one category, that you also never need to use again to win. Ideally, start playing a ton of high cards or pairs, only using your real hands when necessary to win rounds. This should hopefully be getting you around 2-3 procs per round (maybe more). Once you start getting to the bigger point totals and need …

They are decent or even great for high card runs or for anything that doesn't require 5 cards. Typically when you're running high card or pairs, you don't really care about the actual cards you're playing, so you can just jam in as many stone cards as you can to give you the base chips you need to push through higher antes. Weaker hands get very little from the cards you make …

Mar 22, 2024 · For me, I reframed "winning in 12 rounds" as "can only play 4 small/big blinds". That's your budget.

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Tips on reaching Ante 12 / getting 100,000,000 chips in one hand? Strategy and/or Synergies