does the game teach you how to play poker, card games etc. aswell?

[76561198378545136]

i didnt play any card games before but i'd like to try this game

[:3]

Hi, I'm pretty new to balatro and went in with absolutely 0 card game experience. I recommend looking up the basic scoring hands for poker and thats it. Everything else about real life poker doesnt matter.

Balatro is very fun in that you try to score as much as possible using basic poker hands (from real life) combined with the game's "joker cards" (which adds multiplier and other fun modifiers). Happy to answer any questions you have

[flyingmanticore]

If you have a little poker knowledge it helps for recognising hands quicker, but aside from that, this is quite far apart from playing it in real life as I do not think I've played a poker game with so many cards in the hand

[chrisbamb]

You can definitely play it without previous poker knowledge and as you play more and more you will pick up which hands to play based on factors like what Jokers you have, what special cards you have, how you have used your Celestial packs, etc.

[akivida]

Poker, IRL, is (almost, at least) more of an inter-personal game than a card game. Calculating odds, and reckoning what cards are likely in opponents' hands is one thing - but reading their actions and demeanor is a wholly different thing.

[Frostea]

The true strategy of poker is reading other players and knowing whether or not someone is bluffing or making safe bets to fool you into thinking they have a mediocre hand. Which is something this game will never teach you.

You’d have an easier time learning from the old telltale poker night games since each character had their own unique AI to how they played.

[Goblin]

Depends on your definition of "teach" I guess. It has a list of the poker hands, with a description of how to make them. If you don't know them, you may have to check the list quite a few times during your first run. But most people I've seen with little or no idea about poker picked it up rather quickly, they're pretty logical after all.

Originally posted by Frostea:

The true strategy of poker is reading other players and knowing whether or not someone is bluffing or making safe bets to fool you into thinking they have a mediocre hand. Which is something this game will never teach you.

You’d have an easier time learning from the old telltale poker night games since each character had their own unique AI to how they played.

Well, you'd have an easier time learning poker from that. But if OP is more concerned with knowing cardgames enough to play Balatro, than with potentially playing poker in the future, it'd be pretty bad advice. Hard to tell from the question as posed.
Plus the Poker Night games aren't for sale anymore, IIRC?

[Frostea]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Depends on your definition of "teach" I guess. It has a list of the poker hands, with a description of how to make them. If you don't know them, you may have to check the list quite a few times during your first run. But most people I've seen with little or no idea about poker picked it up rather quickly, they're pretty logical after all.

Originally posted by Frostea:

The true strategy of poker is reading other players and knowing whether or not someone is bluffing or making safe bets to fool you into thinking they have a mediocre hand. Which is something this game will never teach you.

You’d have an easier time learning from the old telltale poker night games since each character had their own unique AI to how they played.

Well, you'd have an easier time learning poker from that. But if OP is more concerned with knowing cardgames enough to play Balatro, than with potentially playing poker in the future, it'd be pretty bad advice. Hard to tell from the question as posed.
Plus the Poker Night games aren't for sale anymore, IIRC?

I’m pretty sure you can still trade for them. People should still have them as gifts in their steam inventories from back when it was still possible to do that. Unless something about that has changed and the old gifts can’t be sent in trades anymore. But I don’t know enough about how it works now.