Balatro: An Increasingly Illegal Game of Poker 

God I love gambling

The fact that the developer of this game doesn't even play poker is brilliant. They just looked up the rules, and built their own unique game out of that, like a hermit crab finding a tuna can and making it his home.

I taught him everything he knows

Imagine seeing something like this happening in an actual casino. Man comes in with $20 bucks, excited that he's played Luigi Poker before. Proceeds to steamroll the house. Leaves.

“Never punished” is a terrifying phrase coming out of dan’s mouth. Especially when he’s right

His deck is literally the heart of the cards

The fact your glass King didn’t break at all, you should buy a lottery ticket lmao

The most bs part of his run is that the glass king never broke

Only minutes in, he's already grasped the entire point of the game: 7:22 "Wait, no, what am I doing? Just get the flush, nothing else matters." The greed, the flushes, the high from the lack of punishment... I love Balatro.

I can't believe RT managed to win his first run when he definitely should've lost multiple times

To everyone saying Dan’s glass king not breaking is a statistical wonder, I would like to remind you all that during his Miitopia playthrough, throughout hundreds of battles, I Want Die only Bluffed, a 20% chance proc, on the final floor in the Tower of Despair. Dan doesn’t just live in statistical impossibilities, he _revels_ in them

I think what makes balatro so great is that it's a game designed for maximum gambling without the requirement of getting you to spend money while you play, so it can just lean into the insane fun factor all it wants.

All those years RT has put into Luigi Poker has finally paid off after beating the tutorial because as we know, he used to be called the King of Hearts and Flushes back in college. *Mscupcakes would be proud!*

“Poor, predictable RT. Always playing a flush.” “Good old flush, nothing beats that!”

See, what Dan is doing here is actually an advanced form of method acting. It has been two years since he finished playing Ace Attorney and he’s now getting into poker. From this we can conclude he will spend another five years playing nothing but poker until he fully becomes AA4 Phoenix Wright and returns to play the Apollo Justice trilogy in 2029. This is my Mayan Calendar

As someone who works in credit cards a lot of people do think if you get rid of the card you're free. Fun times.

Leave it to Dan to understand JUST enough of a game to absolutely destroy it in a single playthrough. Flushed this whole game like it was a Zelda no death challenge.

10:29 as someone with a few dozen hours in this game, I felt like walt screaming for hank to stop.

Why does this happen every time?! Every time you play one of these games you fucking destroy it. It’s the weirdest case of streamer luck ever. The fact the glass king didn’t break the entire time is mad.

Dan keeping the joker which gives 10 mult if a flush is played over replacing it with the card which gives 15 unconditionally is funny to me

Insert the breaking bad meme. " HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!"

The glass king never breaking is wild, never punished!! I hope you play more of this Dan

Me: currently playing balatro RT: uploads video about balatro

100% legal solitaire

*joke on how you stop playing Balatro to watch someone play Balatro.

If only RT was this successful when he gambles in other games… …And when he gambles in real life…

He beat a roguelike in the tutorial level……NEVER PUNISHED

LOVE RT playing these very strategy focused wombo combo games. The Slay the Spire video is one of my favourite RT videos of all time, and I think this one will be joining it :))

Amazing how, in one run, RT found the amazing strat of “turn all your cards into one suit then buff the f*ck out of flushes”

38:19 "Seed: TUTORIAL" lmao

They may have called him the Drift King back in college, but now they call him the Flush King

Of course the Flushes win, the reoccurring toilet jokes persist.

Bro had the luckiest "TUTORIAL" seed imaginable "First game seed is always "tutorial"

I haven’t seen RT talk about Flushes this much since the last video where they talk about Toliets and the Bathroom for 22 minutes

It’s gambling, strategy, cards, risk and roguelike all in one game. Basically, Dan’s home turf. The only way this could go more his way is if you gave him a place to drift.

I had my doubts about this game, but damn this looks attractive. Look at the texture on those packs.

24:27 *RT succumbs to his inner gambling monster.*

So like, we’re giving Dan a new title related to his unbelievable performance here, yeah? He’s absolutely earned it

At the discord he posted a pic that he continued the run. He died at ante 10/8

rt the game

Holy crap he got lucky his first game, but also he is kind of a natural at it regardless in being able to understand everything going on pretty decently. He understands that joker / card order is important (after getting corrected on how glass works), and he makes decent decisions (outside of some, you know, Content™ plays every now and then).

Truly, RT has the Luck of the Irish. Never punished.

This game perfectly combines the addiction of poker without ever running out of funds.

rt just feels like an old friend to me now. he uploads something gambling related and im just like "ohh, what did he do this time?"

He took Yugi´s advice. Believe in the heart of the cards

Daneshiro is never punished for gambling. It's his innate ability.

I can't believe RT flushed his life away

Balatro is such a fun game I’ve been playing it since it came out it’s very addicting

Gotta love when RT gambles in the most reckless way possible and it just works for some reason

*In this episode, RT gambles himself into massive debt.* Props for a realistic simulation!

Really impressive rt won his first ever game! Almost never happens, especially in rougelikes. Have fun with your new gambling addiction rtgame!

man i love it when you can get really good at one thing in these deck building games and its just so broken

While others hide a few aces up their sleeves, Dan hides over a dozen hearts.

Nobody tell him about the Duck Shuffler in Toontown, every Buck kinnie I know is OBSESSED with this game.

It took him 3 hands to discover flush meta lmao

The focus on flushing in this video fits really well with the previous video

Hey, it’s a game I’m actually really familiar with! I’d love to see some more of this; Dan’s barely scratched the surface of the insanity this game can be. He did manage to hit on a pretty strong strategy this run though. BTW, I think my best score was about 10 to the 32nd, and that run died on the 16th Ante. Give Endless a try, it scales fast. Also check out the collection tab, it explains the things the tutorial skips. It also hints at a few of the nuttier things you can do.

Me and the boys in the bathroom: "Oh, we flushin'!"

Daneshiro is back

It's so fun to see Dan think that scores that make 4 digits are strong at all strong.

I can't believe I just witnessed Dan defeat gambling

Puts the heart of the cards in a whole new light

0:50 Toad serving a MARIOgarita!😂

I’ve been avoiding this game but as soon as I saw the name Jimbo I was sold I will give you all of me and my family’s kidneys for you to make more.

Balatro has quickly become one of my favourite games after I bought it on day one

You put a lot of heart into that strategy.

As someone who has gone to ante 25, seeing dad get excited for 100k chips brings me back to when i started playing this game

Dude I've been playing Balatro nonstop, this game is straight gas, dopamine injected straight into my veins

Honestly the fact that Run 1 Dan fell into the Steel Kings strategy is astounding Never punished

Not to be confused with the Poker Night at the Inventory series, where you play a poker game with insane people.

Gambling, the best way to spend your time

My jaw is dislodged from being open the entire video, all the luck in the world. This was amazing. I love this game❤

Petition for Dan to set a Twitch subgoal for a "Gambling Week" of sorts Where for a whole week, Dan streams nothing but games that involve some aspect of gambling, chance, or betting. Starting from something like Balatro, moving up to Poker Night at the Inventory, and then Buckshot Roulette, and so on and so forth, until the final day eventually culminates with him revealing he's in Vegas once more and currently engaging in a gambling rematch with the Willy Wonka slot machine that costed him thousands of pounds that one time. If that glass king not breaking isn't proof enough that his Irish luck has rebound and ready for the slots, this weeklong event should do it.

I’m amazed RT did so well with his first time playing, meanwhile with my ten hours in the demo I’d only won once, and it took me several more hours in the full release to get another win. Then again Ive had basically no other roguelike experience so I probably just suck at them

Good thing Dan learned his lesson and quit when he was at the top

Personally, this is my favourite RTGame video, it represents all that Daniel is about, a genius when it comes to breaking the game, his humour that gets me laughing every single time no matter how much I rewatch it and seeing how dumb his luck really is.

Between this video and the last toilet related one, I’m concerned about Dans obsession with flushing ☹️

This has been a terrifying display. I will be having nightmares tonight

he played that glass king so many times and it NEVER broke. literally unpunished

Coming back to this from the most recent Balatro video is like watching the origin story of a supervillain

RT's poker nickname has to be something like "The Serial Flusher" after this.

Best deckbuilder roguelite since slay the spire. So glad you checked this one out

Absolutely amazing, this is just RT's game. I want to see more!!! The flush deck is good, but there are SO many other builds!

Please more of this. Its hillarious!

This is madness, out of all games Balatro is the embodiment of "never punished"

They called me the Wild Card King back in college

From a video all about toilets to a video all about flushing, I think RT decided on the future of the channel

they used to call him the gambling king back in college

I loved the stream and was so excited to see the highlights finally come out. If there’s a second Balatro stream then I’ll defs be there for it!

And it’s no, nay, never No, nay, never, no more! Shall I play the wild rover No, never, no more! -RT, improbably

So, my brother spent a whole day playing this and the next day after. He hadn't won, so he asked if I wanted to play. I had almodt the exact same experience as RT did. The only exception is instead of the "all played cards count" joker I had the "diamonds and hearts count also as eachother" so I had super flush synergy.

he already figured the game out, the best simple strats are specializing into either flushes or straights for the ease of access/value ratio

please defenitly do a second stream! this game fits you so well and balatro is my fav game of all time

This man has a wanted poster at every casino in existence

Wait his name is actually Jimbo, I thought it was doing the thing where the game pulls my name from my computer to mess with me LOL

They used to call Daniel the Flush King back in college.

Every time Dan plays one of my favorite games, he manages to make the most reckless decisions and still wind up doing better than I do

Balatro has joined the growing list of games that I have purchased after watching you stream them... I've already lost control of how much I'm playing because of how addicting it is lol, I blame you mr streamer rumble tumble games

This was the most entertaining Balatro playthrough I've ever seen...

i really like this cuz the only other playthrough i've seen was from Woops and he somehow fell into doing a pair build in both of his videos