Hope you guys enjoyed this video! Shout out to u/realitylime4896 for the suggestion. Let me know your thoughts on including a run where we talk strategy, but arnt necessarily successful. Also, let me know how your runs are going!
Honestly its more realistic for my expectations. All these tutorials tend to show perfect expectation seeds and then i wonder why my rng is never like that. Keep up the great work. I feel like i really understand the game better now!
The part about putting the steel on cards you're going to use was brilliant I didn't even think of that! That's definitely going to help my game a lot! Thank you for that and the shout out to the original person came up with the idea!
Glad it was helpful! Yeah, I always debated it, but was slowly moving to steeling cards I used. Then BalatroUniversity made some great points and swayed me 100%. Ever since then, my runs have been better.
Watching this video made me realise I had a misunderstanding of how the game is supposed to be played. I’ve been trying to get through just by making hands whether it be flush, straight, etc and if they happened to get boosted by jokers I had purchased then that was a bonus. I had no idea you could manipulate the deck to be more of one card/suit. Makes sense as to why I could never make it past ante 4 lol
Really appreciate the advice! Only to ask if in future videos you could maybe select packs...etc... like 5% slower so we can really see what you're taking? Thanks mate!
So the cards are going ranked left to right, and also a tid bit is cards are ordered by suit, Spade, Heart, Club, Diamond. I am making a guess based on the fact I had way more Kings of Hearts/Spades than the two (a Club & a Diamond) Aces but I was wrong when saying IT HAD TO be a king. For some reason in the moment I thought I did not have those two aces in deck.
Just recorded it on stream Saturday, so its going to be a few weeks until it comes out in the Lets Play! If you want to see it though (And don't tell anyone this) you can watch the Live archive from Saturday on my channel, it was the first run of that stream.
Thank you for these tips because what really helped me was the Hallucination Joker that had the 1 in 2 chance of opening packs I ended up beating the final blight by 24 chips!! 😱 so I am not good at this game lol I ended up with a large deck and not a clear strategy so I was having cards I couldn't use or couldn't use till later and I just somehow barely squeaked by because I realized I didn't have my joker order right and only got it together in the final battle. I want to be better at this cause I really enjoy seeing the different depths of strategy but I always end up making the same hands. I really want to try like a two pair or high card money build but I just bought this game and I don't know how to play poker and I am awful at this game ha ha I've played now 60.5 hours 😅 and I've only now gotten my first win but I am enjoying it!
I'm not sure what the name of the joker is, but there's one that says "all cards are considered face cards." I've tried using that one a few times and nothing ever happens with it. Would you be able to share what that one is all about?
The biggest thing this does is allow other jokers that effect face cards to effect all your cards. I.e. sock and buskin retriggers face cards when scored, so now with pareidolia every thing retriggers. There is scary face that adds 30 chips for each scored face card, well now all scored cards add 30 chips. Etc. it's only useful if you pair it with face-card specific jokers.
I realized right after it could have been, there are ways of switching between suit/rank and knowing what's in your deck that you can tell, but I got lucky.
@@ZainoTVLive Got it, thanks for confirming! I'm always trying to find ways that help figure out what the face down cards are, but wasn't sure if I missed some way to tell. I saw in another video that you can use tarot upgrades like Empress or Hierophant to briefly flip the cards and see what they are, which can be useful in a pinch. Anyway, thanks for your videos, they've been super helpful! Gonna have to look into some of your full runs too.
Sometimes you get unlucky with shops. Focus on getting scaling additive mult, xmult, additive chips - also try and build an economy (Max interest is at $25), before opening packs.
@@ZainoTVLive ok first off did not remotely expected you to respond. So I really appreciate that. Appreciate your content. I have learned a lot, just need that next level.
Very interesting. How do you deal with a boss that disables face cards or hearts if you build this way? I just lost a run in ante 5 cause I was playing based on pareidolia and buffs to face cards and the boss debuffed them all.
@@joja922 There are a couple of jokers that can create them. However, the most common way is spectral packs. Ghost deck will also have them loosely in the shop
@ZainoTVLive true. I'm playing right now and I like it but I have this itch that I want something more. Like I'm hoping there's something undiscovered. I guess preperked decks are really the only long term unlock.
What do you mean? If you strength an Ace it becomes a 2? And a King an Ace? This is because in poker/Balatro the flow of cards is circular hence why you can do A-10 or A-5 straights. So when youre at the top (A) and move up you end up circling back to a 2
Is there anything to do if i just get unlucky because thats what seems to happen a lot like if i get a good run with dna i never get justice or chariot
I am new to the game, your teaching style is very fast and you don't explain what your doing, thanks for the attempt. Do you have a beginner level tutorial? You mention going for Kings, but you don't mention the strat or why. is there a Joker tutorial that explain them? You are explaining as if I have your knowledge.
There are so many cards it is easy to get lost. Which happens to me. After playing this for two days I finally got to 10000 blinds where I finally lost
Good video, but lowk why should I trust someone who folded so easily one White Stake Yellow deck on Ante 4 (bro just like me fr) I mean you're obv better than me, looking at your channel I see wild stuff like the 100k wee joker on a filtered run (for Perkeo) but like I was not expecting you to actually lose on an advice video on white stake lmao
Things scale extremely fast, you almost need a steel card, red seal build with mimes to do it. You can go with glass until like Ante 12-13 but soon your glass all breaks.
Lol, I love your videos and have been watching several over the last few days. But I literally had to stop this one after about the 3rd hand where you kept getting the best cards over and over. Bears absolutely no resemblance to my games hahaha.
@@ZainoTVLive I don't remember everything, would have to rewatch. But the biggest thing for me was not paying attention to mail in rebate, there was one time You played 3 cards that could be 15$ if discarded. Moments like that could get You passive income from economy, so not sitting on 25$. And not paying attention to boss ability which made You lose final game. I think it was better to either play 3/4 of a kind with kings (even disabled) and have bonus from jokers or play heart flush without kings and hope for bloodstone triggers. Things I liked are: - There was one time You could play winning hand but decided to dig for 6 to get spectral from it. - Not playing 5 of a kind to avoid getting planet x. - You said something like that having any upgrade on cards is better than playing vanilla cards. I think it's those details that often decide the outcome.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video! Shout out to u/realitylime4896 for the suggestion.
Let me know your thoughts on including a run where we talk strategy, but arnt necessarily successful. Also, let me know how your runs are going!
Honestly its more realistic for my expectations. All these tutorials tend to show perfect expectation seeds and then i wonder why my rng is never like that. Keep up the great work. I feel like i really understand the game better now!
Very refreshing to see the unsuccessful runs. So many games streamers only show the good bits.
The part about putting the steel on cards you're going to use was brilliant I didn't even think of that! That's definitely going to help my game a lot! Thank you for that and the shout out to the original person came up with the idea!
This and focusing on removing cards you don't want (not just adding cards you want) from your deck were my two biggest take aways
Glad it was helpful! Yeah, I always debated it, but was slowly moving to steeling cards I used. Then BalatroUniversity made some great points and swayed me 100%. Ever since then, my runs have been better.
Thanks your tips, and your chat’s tips, I was able to get 100 million in one hand and unlock the joker Stuntman
Watching this video made me realise I had a misunderstanding of how the game is supposed to be played.
I’ve been trying to get through just by making hands whether it be flush, straight, etc and if they happened to get boosted by jokers I had purchased then that was a bonus. I had no idea you could manipulate the deck to be more of one card/suit.
Makes sense as to why I could never make it past ante 4 lol
Literally me haha
Really appreciate the advice! Only to ask if in future videos you could maybe select packs...etc... like 5% slower so we can really see what you're taking? Thanks mate!
I've been really struggling to win my first Gold stake run and this video has really given me something to think about for future attempts.
I'm super glad I could help!
Felt like I was finally understanding this game util I saw your run at the end. 🤯
One day I’ll win a run. I think I’m about 0-20 so far.
You got this, I'd also checkout my tutorial video on how to win a run. There are also great resources from other creators like BalatroUniversity!
Loving your vids they have been the most helpful I've found
Glad you like them & thanks for the support!
Appreciate your knowledge and expertise. Such a great game! Rock on🤘🤘
thanks for the tips!
i'm not into games like StS and the likes, but Balatro is the exception.
This game is ridiculously addictive. Downloaded it last night at like half 8 and next thing I knew it was 4am 😂
22:47 I thought you were playing pretty well, but the run stopped so soon?
Didn't have enough basemult or cards for bloodstone to 2x on :(
Followed this and got a hand of 8 steel kings! great guide
Why does it have to be a full house at 10:15, I don't get that
So the cards are going ranked left to right, and also a tid bit is cards are ordered by suit, Spade, Heart, Club, Diamond. I am making a guess based on the fact I had way more Kings of Hearts/Spades than the two (a Club & a Diamond) Aces but I was wrong when saying IT HAD TO be a king. For some reason in the moment I thought I did not have those two aces in deck.
@@ZainoTVLive glad he asked that, I felt dumb lol
Thanks. Today I won for first time after seeing your other tutorial video. Great tips man!
Thanks for the tips!
What video was that final run from? I'd like to be able to look at it in full!
Just recorded it on stream Saturday, so its going to be a few weeks until it comes out in the Lets Play! If you want to see it though (And don't tell anyone this) you can watch the Live archive from Saturday on my channel, it was the first run of that stream.
Thank you for these tips because what really helped me was the Hallucination Joker that had the 1 in 2 chance of opening packs I ended up beating the final blight by 24 chips!! 😱 so I am not good at this game lol I ended up with a large deck and not a clear strategy so I was having cards I couldn't use or couldn't use till later and I just somehow barely squeaked by because I realized I didn't have my joker order right and only got it together in the final battle. I want to be better at this cause I really enjoy seeing the different depths of strategy but I always end up making the same hands. I really want to try like a two pair or high card money build but I just bought this game and I don't know how to play poker and I am awful at this game ha ha I've played now 60.5 hours 😅 and I've only now gotten my first win but I am enjoying it!
I'm not sure what the name of the joker is, but there's one that says "all cards are considered face cards." I've tried using that one a few times and nothing ever happens with it. Would you be able to share what that one is all about?
The biggest thing this does is allow other jokers that effect face cards to effect all your cards.
I.e. sock and buskin retriggers face cards when scored, so now with pareidolia every thing retriggers. There is scary face that adds 30 chips for each scored face card, well now all scored cards add 30 chips. Etc. it's only useful if you pair it with face-card specific jokers.
@@ZainoTVLive thank you for the info!
10:16 How do you know that the left face down card is not an Ace? Am I missing something?
I realized right after it could have been, there are ways of switching between suit/rank and knowing what's in your deck that you can tell, but I got lucky.
@@ZainoTVLive Got it, thanks for confirming! I'm always trying to find ways that help figure out what the face down cards are, but wasn't sure if I missed some way to tell.
I saw in another video that you can use tarot upgrades like Empress or Hierophant to briefly flip the cards and see what they are, which can be useful in a pinch.
Anyway, thanks for your videos, they've been super helpful! Gonna have to look into some of your full runs too.
10:14 How does he know though? Blind doesn't say "Face Cards are face down", it says "First hand cards(faces AND numbers) are face down"
Misread and got lucky
If posting a stream or talking over a stream, could you just put a picture of the card(+description) up on the screen for a moment?
Yeah, I'll need to do better at this.
Still stuck on doing a Red deck run. I just get to level 7 and get screwed. I’m at a loss
Sometimes you get unlucky with shops. Focus on getting scaling additive mult, xmult, additive chips - also try and build an economy (Max interest is at $25), before opening packs.
@@ZainoTVLive ok first off did not remotely expected you to respond. So I really appreciate that. Appreciate your content. I have learned a lot, just need that next level.
How do you get Spectral cards in your consumables area. I've never seen them in the shop except for booster packs
Seance/Sixth Sense or the Ghost Deck
Nice guide, ty
Glad it could help!!
Very interesting. How do you deal with a boss that disables face cards or hearts if you build this way? I just lost a run in ante 5 cause I was playing based on pareidolia and buffs to face cards and the boss debuffed them all.
You can die, its not a fool proof play depending on your build.
How do you get spectral cards? I don’t think I have seen any at all
@@joja922 There are a couple of jokers that can create them. However, the most common way is spectral packs.
Ghost deck will also have them loosely in the shop
So should I focus on a specific joker card and build around that? Of course add addrl utility cards that help it and then. The tarot cards etc???
Build up your deck towards one card and then look for one of the two high scoring pairs (idol/sock or Mime/baron)
@ZainoTVLive thank you for your response gives me idea how to approach
how am i gonna build a deck 5 antes in and not a single tarot/ spectral pack😭
Pain
How is it deck building if there is no progression outside a run? Unless there is which no one has explained
I guess its deck build/manipulation on a per run basis
@ZainoTVLive true. I'm playing right now and I like it but I have this itch that I want something more. Like I'm hoping there's something undiscovered. I guess preperked decks are really the only long term unlock.
If I put 2 kings up and 2 aces up why do they move up and down?
What do you mean? If you strength an Ace it becomes a 2? And a King an Ace?
This is because in poker/Balatro the flow of cards is circular hence why you can do A-10 or A-5 straights.
So when youre at the top (A) and move up you end up circling back to a 2
Is there anything to do if i just get unlucky because thats what seems to happen a lot like if i get a good run with dna i never get justice or chariot
Focus on building the economy and resource jokers that can help generate money/tarots - purple seals and copying those are also great
I am new to the game, your teaching style is very fast and you don't explain what your doing, thanks for the attempt. Do you have a beginner level tutorial? You mention going for Kings, but you don't mention the strat or why. is there a Joker tutorial that explain them? You are explaining as if I have your knowledge.
Checkout my How to Win video for a quick explanation and general overview. I also have another video specifically about high scores
There are so many cards it is easy to get lost. Which happens to me. After playing this for two days I finally got to 10000 blinds where I finally lost
Good video, but lowk why should I trust someone who folded so easily one White Stake Yellow deck on Ante 4 (bro just like me fr)
I mean you're obv better than me, looking at your channel I see wild stuff like the 100k wee joker on a filtered run (for Perkeo) but like I was not expecting you to actually lose on an advice video on white stake lmao
How did you know what those face down cards were going to be???
by selecting them so they pop up, then switching between rank and suit order, you can get a pretty good idea of what cards they are
@@RC.13 ooooo of course, thanks so much.
Getting spectral cards in the store is extremely unlikely.
Correct, you need ghost deck. I forgot that Omen Globe voucher only adds them to tarot packs.
I have no problem beating the game but cannot get past ante 11 to save my life
Things scale extremely fast, you almost need a steel card, red seal build with mimes to do it. You can go with glass until like Ante 12-13 but soon your glass all breaks.
Lol, I love your videos and have been watching several over the last few days. But I literally had to stop this one after about the 3rd hand where you kept getting the best cards over and over. Bears absolutely no resemblance to my games hahaha.
Don't worry, I ruined it.
wtf you didn't buy restock?
Idk
...incantanation?
I'm bad at reading words
Just excited about Elden Ring DLC. I get it. Thank god we have Balatro to hold us over.
@@ZainoTVLivelate comment but no worries, it's In-cant-ation, or at least that's how I like to remember it
The flush five planet card is pronounced air-ihs not air-ees
I know but I prefer Greek mythology
@@ZainoTVLive ah
I looove manipulating my deck
Please turn off the screen shake its so annoying to look at!
quite a lot of mistakes for a guide
Please feel free to drop them in, while this video needs to be updated I want to hear what people disagree about it most
@@ZainoTVLive I don't remember everything, would have to rewatch. But the biggest thing for me was not paying attention to mail in rebate, there was one time You played 3 cards that could be 15$ if discarded. Moments like that could get You passive income from economy, so not sitting on 25$. And not paying attention to boss ability which made You lose final game. I think it was better to either play 3/4 of a kind with kings (even disabled) and have bonus from jokers or play heart flush without kings and hope for bloodstone triggers.
Things I liked are:
- There was one time You could play winning hand but decided to dig for 6 to get spectral from it.
- Not playing 5 of a kind to avoid getting planet x.
- You said something like that having any upgrade on cards is better than playing vanilla cards.
I think it's those details that often decide the outcome.
Stop doing a guide and showing a run where you lose.
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