Balatro

Become the poker Joker

Four of a kinds get a heck of a lot easier to pull off when you’ve loaded your deck with eight aces. Straight flushes become less luck-driven when you’ve converted as many cards as possible into duplicate hearts. Even the humble two pair can outplay other hands if you rewrite the scorecard and heap multipliers on top. There are hundreds of ways to cheat the rules of poker in roguelike Balatro, but only the canniest of runs will see you snatching victory from the jaws of the biggest blinds. You’ve got to work your way through eight antes made up of three blinds, each one giving you a progressively higher score to reach by building poker hands from your cards. With a limit to the number you can lay down or…

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