This is not how you play baseball (Balatro)

[@danonsgard4616]

goes into debt with credit card sells credit card gets another credit card while still in debt " Its just like real life bro" lmao

[@williammitchell6254]

I came here to escape real life now its invading my escapism.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Finally something for the type B chatters.

[@austinsmith3676]

I hate when my escapism escapes my escapism.

[@juice6521]

"We noticed you lost your credit card, so we took the liberty of sending you a new one, free of charge." The bank

[@mononaut]

1:19:10 he assembles a flush house and then discarded a 2 of clubs to make it a regular full house D:

[@mdoubleub]

i lost it

[@AlmightyJu2]

Turned me into type A chatter right there

[@Hsel-lc1wt]

I felt physical pain, nothing prepared me for this

[@jasper7439]

Cant even be mad cause Ive done way worse, but damn does it hurt

[@JsnVrhs46]

Don't point it out, you'll hurt his feelings

[@peterholcomb4922]

19:38 checking what the boss blind was by clicking run info even though he’s on the screen, Big play

[@MangroveLord]

Hilarious,

[@ValTheGnat]

36:10 “it was the blind it was the blind” “it was the blind leading the blind” Fucking sent me

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

The confidence he had when said "That's like 30,000 bro" followed by the result was glorious

[@mihailmilev9909]

1mo44lik

[@Shoelid]

18:25 the urologist explaining that I have testicular cancer: "your pair is level two"

[@iseechords]

+2

[@azechase6597]

And soon he will be -2 ​@@iseechords

[@RustBatman]

​@azechase6597 and you get a +2 then

[@mattiascrowe2549]

1:15:30 "okay focus on the six inches on front of our face" my reply to the urologist I've been having a scandalous affair with

[@Pettfej]

also your urologist: nuts on the table

[@pellevif1913]

Lobster pointed at in the restaurant: Brother we're cooked.

[@omyyer]

Something really funny about "pointed at in the restaurant"

[@Lino797]

+2

[@jakeleearmy200]

man with bad grammar when asked about what happened to his male sibling who was in a fire: brother were cooked

[@SikGamer70]

When your best friend gets dipped in Mama Liz's chilli oil.

[@zeb51]

+2

[@MrTDWfan]

Man I love the balatro content sure hope twitch chat doesn't ruin anything for me, red seal me

[@Nikowo1610]

Man I love the balatro content sure hope twitch chat doesn't ruin anything for me

[@karikora8279]

Seltzer

[@Nikowo1610]

Man I love the balatro content sure hope twitch chat doesn't ruin anything for me, lucky card me *ckdoing* YOOOOO IT'S BACK HE HADN'T STOPPED STREAMING IT

[@incription]

get ready to learn balatro buddy

[@joshuakruebbe3762]

Would you like to know more?

[@DukeChameleon]

Nah I'd learn it from the 🥚best🥚

[@darkiller76521]

Send da video

[@ShadeOrmol]

22:16 I lost it when he pointed at the joker on the screen when saying "you're gone first matador"

[@radarhead82]

I was absolutely crushed when it didn't work during the 2 discard boss, I don't blame him for obliterating the joker

[@DracoseandCO]

A vision of reality where Apollo is an omniscient god that comes to tell you how good you're doing every now and again

[@AngelJimenez-cs4yq]

Me cooking instead of ordering doordash 7x per week as a form of atheist defiance

[@xFrostmawx]

+2@@AngelJimenez-cs4yq

[@WhytefangYT]

@@AngelJimenez-cs4yq Extreme +2

[@not_ryuka]

i already have a furry in my head i do not need 2

[@radarhead82]

what do you mean? Apollo's been an omniscient god since the days of ancient Greece

[@JesseSep.]

Is he cooking, or brother, is he cooked and dipped in Momma Lizzie's chili oil? Find out on today's episode of the Pogged Up Polychromepill Show with Egg and the Joker!

[@lagspike7763]

Honestly I love NL’s despair arc when playing balatro he’s so animatedly distraught

[@Nikowo1610]

This game really gets the emotions out of you

[@jasper7439]

@@Nikowo1610It really does give you the gambling experience without the crippling debt

[@picklenik9658]

They brought Balatro to Mac so I’ve finally had the pleasure of playing for myself. Just had a crazy run in my third ever that started as pants and DNA and ended with a Steel Joker at x4.75, Hologram at x6.75, Constellation at x4.2, Baseball hitting 3 uncommons and a Campfire to top it all off. Would’ve beaten Ante 12 if I realized I was against the boss blind that only lets 1 hand type before playing High Card. I would like to apologize for any past Type A chats, because dang is it easy to make even a glaring mistake like that.

[@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT]

welcome to balatro :D

[@Jabadamazo]

Going "all in" on Driver's license and then never buying a single playing card pack is absolute madness.

[@BenRHarsh]

41:20 Reminds me of when I had a double tag and negative tag and the two negative jokers it gave me were Popcorn and Seltzer. I'm still salty about that one.

[@heysimone]

balatro really said "here's a snack"

[@desertedham37]

started out not understanding Balatro. then I bought and played the game and now i'm HERE

[@xhshdd7113]

You understand it??

[@desertedham37]

@@xhshdd7113 I really feel like this is one that you have to play to feel the pogs. now i watch to get ideas on synergies for future runs.

[@craiggentile313]

LOCK IN

[@halowaffles]

@@xhshdd7113 It's poker with fantasy caveats over it. If you understand poker hands, you understand this game.

[@jabronijackpot]

Same experience for me. kind of impenetrable to watch before youve played it.

[@SunshineXz]

I am so addicted to these daily Balatro videos

[@mdn9721]

A basebaaaall, dipped in mama liz's CHILLY OIIIIL

[@PravusTheKid]

He was right, I liked it and then hated it but now I'm starting to like the chili oil meme again

[@Nosirrbro]

@@PravusTheKidI hated it strongly at first and now I love it

[@mdn9721]

@@PravusTheKid It's in my head. I can hear him say it in my head and it cracks me up

[@SikGamer70]

OOOOH

[@okcoolmax]

Can someone explain the meme to me 🫡

[@andrewmcbride88]

Just seen a previous stream where you seemed surprised that people found you through Balatro. Just came to let you know that I had as well. Love the game and you make streaming it fun and so enjoyable. As a 30 something father, I relate so much to the discussions. You're such a funny and smart person and I appreciate that. I look forward to more balatro. Also my son wants me to watch new backpack battles videos since it's release so I'm gonna need you to get on that 😂

[@boyxgamer]

41:20 i don't think I've ever seen the egg man so genuinely distressed in my whole viewership

[@jasper7439]

What Balatro does to a man

[@BenRHarsh]

He's right about the straights. It's way too hard to scale and needs a buff. Maybe the planet should give more mult and chips or get some more powerful jokers to make the effort worth it. Sacrificing a joker slot or two to make straights easier without any other benefit is too limiting to be worth while.

[@iamfunnyface]

Agreedo. They should make full house, four of a kind, and high card worse

[@Almaburger]

I think you guys gotta try playibg straights more. Idk how youre messing up with them enough to want buffs

[@manuelstammler]

​I think a straight deck is perfectly playable. You use either four fingers or that gap joker as a transition until you have a deck that can reliably give you straights. make them a single suit and pick a range of numbers you want to focus on and straight flushes become easier than you'd think.

[@VocalTK]

@@Almaburger They want buffs because they're objectively worse. You can obviously win with them but ideally the power level would be scaled with the difficulty or ease of enabling them. Like just based off raw statistics alone they are worse.

[@Almaburger]

@@VocalTK i have to win more and turn those raw stats into cooked stats

[@tyusbro8063]

Matador really lies in the job interview

[@frompz67]

He’s spitting honestly at 13:50. In terms of probability you got a pretty good chance of getting the one or two cards you need to finish your straights, but what the hell do you do to make them show up more consistently? Make more of every card? What do you delete? The only things I can really think of are shortcut and four fingers joker

[@aidanferguson3867]

it's kinda broken on abandoned deck though, just bulk up on the center cards (5,6) and drop as many cards on the edge (T,A) Can likely make 3 straights per round easily even without 4 fingers

[@aidanferguson3867]

Extremely hard to not have 4 to a straight at all times with shortcut And if you have 4 in the form of like 2, 4, 5, 7, it completes with all non pairing cards other than tens, pretty ez

[@noisepollution4473]

Legitimately, the concept of putting steel on cards you actually want to play because you can duplicate them and you still can play them in case of emergency has made the game even more enjoyable to play for me, so thank you for showcasing that so much in your Balatro videos. It's a plan that has both a higher floor and a higher ceiling. Higher floor because the worst case scenario is you play the steel card and actually play a decent hand rather than not playing the steel card and being forced to throw down a terrible high card while fishing for something better. Higher ceiling because if you ever do get on that magic run where you duplicate/convert your entire deck into steel cards, it's better if the one card you're copying is one you don't mind playing. Steel cards kind of make the game play a little less smooth if you're always putting steel on cards you won't play. You feel bad discarding it, but holding on to it doesn't advance your game plan either. Maybe, like, objectively speaking it's incorrect to put steel on cards you want to play. I don't actually know how the math breaks down. But from a pure game feel perspective I now put steel on cards I actually want to play and it's genuinely so much more enjoyable playing this way.

[@kaleidoscope942]

you put steel on cards you play but you wouldn’t want half your deck to be steel, if I could have any deck I would have all kings or all aces with 1/3 of them being steel and 2/3 of them being mult or bonus

[@SlamDunc_an]

The baseball Joker run was so funny

[@christianflora2316]

Watching him skip every tag where he was guaranteed an uncommon joker went crazy

[@averydeloach]

1:20:33 picking from a lackluster selection of candy bars

[@GynxShinx]

19:36 Should've never told him about Run Info>Blinds lmao

[@ethandavis7310]

11:35 is the most bonkers play I've seen in my life, had to be a misclick. The full house would've done it

[@HardCandy01]

I blame chat

[@yehusinede9913]

that moment when you would get 6 mult and extra chips for just playing a full house but you have to justify your steel card usage so you play a two pair which 1.5x's the 2 mult you get from playing a two pair resulting in 3 mult and less chips.

[@ethandavis7310]

@@yehusinede9913 tbf he simply didn't see it. Commented before watching further where someone points out he had a house and he's like oops

[@calmonnier2512]

Balatro desperately needs tarot cards that help enable straights. No idea how you do that in a balanced way but it’s true

[@darbstre2900]

Not at all. Just take note of what you're deleting and stack the deck with high cards and delete low ones. A wild rank would go insane tho

[@canox6017]

It's just hard to manipulate the deck, there's too many variables compared to other hands.

[@radarhead82]

At least one more way to target delete cards from your deck would help a lot I think

[@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT]

nah idk, i think straights just need to scale better with planets again

[@pakofajer838]

You could perhaps add a tarot card that similarly to a Wild Card adds a property to a card so that the card acts as itself + a rank above it + a rank below it. For example you add this to a 6 which can then act as 7-6-5. If you have an Ace, 2, 3, 4 and a 6 with this property it would count as a 5. Or if you have a J,10,9,8 this card would count as a 7

[@BenRHarsh]

My steel card strategy is always to put steel on the off-suit fed off-rank first. It gives utility to non-playable cards early and then can be fixed to the proper suit later in the run if you have a chance.

[@aliakhtar8622]

14:30 I agree with NL here, it’s hard to work a straight build. I’ve managed a straight build once, and it was only by committing super early, nuts on the table style. I had to emphasize discards and hand size to maximize my chances of drawing a royal flush and even then I needed the jokers specifically tailored towards straights and flushes score to get it to Ante 11. You also have to win in basically one hand every time, because there’s no way you’re drawing 2 of them in one round 😅. Other builds are just more flexible and reliable early game and scale better I’d say even in the late game.

[@reinoflame]

Trimming the edges works good but needs a ton of maintenace thats why checkerd deck is good or abandoned so you can cut down on a ton of excess

[@DJchoppa666]

it’s about as easy to get as a flush but you have to focus on the numbers. it helps to delete cards from the lower end of the deck helping enable stronger straights

[@aliakhtar8622]

@@DJchoppa666 ​ @reinoflame Hmm, I don't necessarily disagree, I just feel like if you go for a straight and then don't get it, then you're kind of out of luck, whereas a full house/pair build can at least leave you with some relatively okay hands.

[@azechase6597]

In the beginning its as easy to get, straights only get harder to get as a blind goes on while flushes arguably get easier.

[@jabronijackpot]

​@@DJchoppa666Yeah, and so far in my experience they're only really practical in the abandoned deck unless you get the Shortcut joker.

[@brandoninacio]

23:42 amazing work honestly

[@dedmanwalken8565]

1:08:48 Losing the gaurunteed dollar for the 50% chance of getting two dollars into not taking burglar when Mystic Summit is in hand increased my type by a full letter grade

[@radarhead82]

I legit never realized that burglar and summit synergize like that woah

[@GavinPoggins]

Honey wake up! A new Balatro episode dropped!

[@omyyer]

More like honey mixed with mama liz's chilli oil

[@agustinbarquero8898]

More like honey mixed with mama liz's chilli oil

[@quincyjones9657]

1:08:50 me to my jobless friend when he says to hop on league

[@vexterium4639]

Loved the part where he said "it's Balatro time" then Balatro'd all over the place.

[@videoaccount4323]

+2

[@BARTZ13]

To comment on the difficulty of straights. We have wild for suits but what about a wild for card rank? Obviously it would be OP, but possible to nerf like no foil, mult or poly?

[@baroswista3504]

# Edition?

[@DeathClawz]

Maybe it could be rankless but it can fill holes, or add to the end, of straights. Like if you play 4, 5, 7, 8, X or 4, 5, 6, 7, X it would make a straight. That would be less op than a wild rank, since it only works on straights, and not be confusing by messing with all the types of modifiers.

[@holygon]

@@DeathClawzYeah that would be the only way imo. Too OP to make it all ranks as it would be too good to enable 4/5 of a kinds (although would be a fun Legendary Joker that could enable it to work that way). I think that kind of rankless card + mult buff on Straight Planet Cards is necessary for its viability.

[@quandang3686]

3:33 4 hands, 2 discards, four 4's, four 2's, score at least 4,200 ... crazy how numbers just appear together sometimes

[@sevenayashinedown1283]

Its like watching humpty dumpty Jr get real drunk and climbing onto that wall out of spite, itys inevitable, it's messy, and he's completely cracked.

[@MrLevonhardt]

I love when he says "we're cooked"

[@eamonntee]

Turning down Rare Jokers while holding on to the +4 mult joker? He's pogged beyond belief

[@connorsmith75]

From Isaac to Balatro, the man follows the tarot

[@wurthdurt_]

The first "Mama Liz's chili oil" at 24:33 sent me. You really don't know what you're missing till it's gone

[@takeback181]

6:30

[@wurthdurt_]

@@takeback181 hidden in plain sight, he's a genius

[@DukeChameleon]

My man be playing like federal treasury the way he being in a debt all the time huh

[@DukeChameleon]

I got zero clue how US monetary system works, I'm from Ukraine

[@eduardoalvarezfranco6445]

@@DukeChameleon Bro added a disclaimer like he was about to be procecuted over a YT comment 💀

[@jasper7439]

@@eduardoalvarezfranco6445to be fair, you never know with youtube comments lmao someone could just get pissed over it

[@MimikimiXD]

40:29 i thought his chair squeaking was the sfx for issac getting hit

[@IProHeadhunter]

On console, when you play the boss blind that lowers your hands level, you can go to level 0

[@CharlieHM]

Happens to me on switch brother it stinks

[@NomoreMONTE]

Haven’t been watching the balatro videos played it for the first time yesterday and I get it know

[@mdoubleub]

he discarded that flush house @1:19:00

[@heykak]

Begging NL to just move over to Balatro youtube Vods

[@pokidokipanic6268]

pogged out of my gourd and dipped in mama lizzie’s chili oil.

[@desertedham37]

were cooked

[@Thisisanalt333]

Generational comment

[@entropete_]

Mama Liz's chili oil is the funniest thing

[@SchmavidSchmobb]

1:07:00 weird how no face cards came up. its almost like the deck only has 2 of them

[@SchmavidSchmobb]

round 1: creates extra 5's Round 3: Deletes a 5 can't make this stuff up

[@otskuu161]

Nutson the Table is a beautiful name

[@Jabadamazo]

Hitting aces off the spectral pack is just fucking crazy

[@MegaOgrady]

_sells credit card_ _gets a new one for free_ Literally just like real life.

[@A_Lily_by_Another_Name]

Heterosexual Neo realizing he misunderstood what Morpheus meant when he said that he swings for both teams:

[@lafiki999]

+2 but I'm bad at math

[@texaswilliam01]

The Balatro videos are popping off like crazy

[@rythespyguy7718]

Jesus Christ I thought we weren’t gonna get a Balatro today

[@MaximumAxiom]

Maybe you could augment a card to be rank wild, and that would make your straight a lot easier if you ever find that card

[@siri7005]

I'm going to second the recommendation for "Thinking, fast and slow"

[@randomname12246]

Oh shit, Joker at the baseball game?

[@poadude]

I am content knowing I am a lowercase type b viewer. I gain enjoyment from my type a side raging at NL discarding a flush house and then playing a full house for literally no reason 😂

[@BenRHarsh]

Egg really plays the single king with an expected ROI of $1 just to lose $1 from less hands remaining... Incredible.

[@utm0st]

So he did something completely neutral. How incredible

[@Mognet_t]

This is the vod where he learns about run info!!!

[@samdavidson6274]

Loving the content, just quick question for anyone that may know - is it just me or when I play the 'decrease level of played poker hand' boss blind it decrease it to zero, but seemingly not when nl plays? Unsure if I am missing something. Thanks if anyone can clarify

[@rishianand5250]

There was a patch released a while ago. Make sure your game is updated.

[@genieinthepot2455]

I think depending on what platform you're playing on you might not have gotten the patch that changes it yet

[@samdavidson6274]

Brill, thanks folks

[@Nangesoup]

all of these streams came from February 29th? lol

[@crashfan360]

8 hour compilation called this is how you DON'T play Balatro with NL's face superimposed over DSP's body

[@cinnamonroll5659]

when he played the pair instead of full house on first run after 5heading the 5 aces was so hard to watch

[@colemcegg3894]

Balatro, dipped in Papa NLs squammy sauce.

[@HmongHeroo]

Theres something about NL just saying a random meme so casually

[@aliakhtar8622]

58:20 Wow! Only off by a single 0! 😂

[@tootall1999]

Songs in the Key of Clubs ♣️

[@BeeBoi24]

In terms of straights you should make them with the ancient deck and remove outside cards like aces and 10s. Thats the best way to make it happen

[@p3rcey]

literally me when I have exploding head syndrome

[@GeminiMayhem]

25:30 Stoner Xemnas be like

[@MrCloud254]

Nuts on the table dipped in Mama Liz's Chili Oil

[@CaptainMangles]

World's most egg baseball gaming

[@Pyrox645]

This game goes at least as hard as Isaac

[@cokeMONSTERps3]

35:15 OMEGALUL

[@jasper7439]

We can always use a justice card later, right?

[@Elaydzha]

Brother were well done

[@Blackmagickdude]

This is one of those games where i see people do a different choice than i would have made and i start to turn into that toxic chatter

[@bensonfamily6302]

Wait am I crazy did he repeat the “watch the videos your wife sends you” thing ad verbatim in the past???

[@maestromarat6195]

Egg does not know ball(atro)

[@arlangibson109]

Missed the golden chance to name this “OH THATS BASE-BALATRO”

[@anthonyrupprecht8659]

NL:” you gotta think about the long term.” Also NL:”true I could have died broke.” Giving the number of Isaac runs I’ve watched die with so much in the pocket, this is on brand.

[@anthonyrupprecht8659]

Also him getting 1 face card, doubling it, leaning into a face card joker, then flaming a chatter for “having no face cards” is a actually hilarious

[@anthonyrupprecht8659]

1:00:30 he tilted into oblivion this run

[@Username_CC_]

Last night I got this deck and received no less than 5 face card buffing jokers including 1 negative in the first Ante. I should have quit then.

[@MrCloud254]

1:19:18 egg got lost in the sauce

[@MrTact67]

Okay now I feel less bad about the 3 games I lost earlier tonight.

[@DRACFAN18]

Can anyone explain how when I play, The Arm is able to delevel my hands to LVL 0, but in every NL video I watch it won't let them go below LVL 1?

[@DeathClawz]

There was an update to the game on Steam, I can't speak for the other places though. I played earlier this week and remember that it didn't go to lvl 0

[@vmp916]

They call me a British sandwich But my chips are anything butty

[@Shield_OW]

this episode got me dipping tendies in mama liz's chili oil

[@XThePrincessOfMusicX]

BALATROOOOOOOOO 🎉🎊💐

[@bensonfamily6302]

BALATRO FOREVER

[@googlepoodle5814]

The cruelest thing ever? I had a polychrome DNA and Polychrome blueprint in the same shop, neither of which I could afford 😭

[@wurthdurt_]

Missed a tinted joker at 54:42

[@Vario69]

58:15 🎉

[@ericvivian9160]

locked in today

[@JustinHampton-l5j]

They should fix matador, what a piece