• @Takumidesh
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    512 months ago

    As the game goes on, the poker hands also get increasingly unrealistic and different from real poker including things like five of a kind, and a pair being worth more than a royal flush.

    If you tried to take the skills you learn from balatro to a poker table you would get kicked out basically immediately.

    • Stern
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      2 months ago

      I place a torn up joker on the table, a tarot card, a llanowar elf card, and a pair of threes

      “So with my score multiplier basically I own the casino.”

      The dealer frantically calls security

      • @Nikelui
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        22 months ago

        “I’m sorry, the Llanowar Elves are banned, you should keep up with the meta” Activates the Pot of Greed and draw two.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      “Sir, you can’t bring stone slabs to the table and play them as if they were cards. Also, where did these glass shards come from?”

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      I’ve never gambled, but I’m pretty sure if I got 1.630e11 chips at a casino, something bad would happen to me, the casino, and the economy if I cashed it out. I think that’s 84 billion chips…

      • @CrazyLikeGollum
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        It’s 163 Billion chips.

        1.630e11 is the same as 1.630 x 10^11

        Which probably wouldn’t be that bad for the economy, but it might bankrupt the casino, depending on the value of the chips.

      • Steve Dice
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        2 months ago

        Times are different now, there’s no more turning up in a ditch. If you start winning too often, they’re gonna keep an eye on you and try to determine if you’re cheating. If you’re not, they’re gonna ask you to leave and ban you from the casino before you can actually win anything significant — the justification given is that it’s their casino and they can refuse entry to whoever they want. If you are cheating, then you’re just going to jail.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      12 months ago

      I had a run where I legitimately had to stop and compare the point values a Two Pair Vs. One Pair Vs. Straight Flush

      And ONE PAIR wound up being the one with the highest point value…

      I was still 600 dollars short of winning against the Boss Blind, ending my run