Beginner friendly?

[HotLocalSingles]

Hi everyone,

I've never played poker before but I'm intrigued by this because I love roguelike deck builders. Is there any sort of tutorial or are you expected to be knowledgeable about poker from the start?

[YouDon'tKnowWho]

While knowledge of poker isn't required to play Balatro, a basic understanding does help, specifically of what the poker hands are. However, it does tell you what the hands are if you click on a specific button (i cant remember what it says, but its pretty easy to find).

Even then, if you play for long enough, there isn't any hidden mechanics that would need explicit and extensive poker knowledge to know about. It's pretty easy to get into even if you've never played poker.

[Bootrom]

The game will also tell you what hand you have when you select your cards. If you don't know the hands you might find having a quick reference on a second screen or printout helpful but I imagine you'd learn them fairly quick by playing.

In some ways the hands aren't all that important because once you understand the mechanics of the game you're trying to build your deck towards a specific hand(s) to accrue big bonuses.

[marharols]

Originally posted by TK-421:

The game will also tell you what hand you have when you select your cards. If you don't know the hands you might find having a quick reference on a second screen or printout helpful but I imagine you'd learn them fairly quick by playing.

In some ways the hands aren't all that important because once you understand the mechanics of the game you're trying to build your deck towards a specific hand(s) to accrue big bonuses.

Had no clue about anything poker when i started playing this, skipped the tutorial but quickly got an understand from playing as it says what you got. There is also a tutorial that shows everything you need to know, and you can check the cards panel to see the different hands.

[Ersatz]

I knew absolutely ♥♥♥♥ all about Poker before playing this, and it was no problem at all.

[HotLocalSingles]

Thanks for the replies everyone!