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.
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
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.
