Tried this at poker night once
I am no longer invited to poker night
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?
- 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-Qfour card straight flushThere’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.
