straights

[steady ingot]

currently, the highest ranked poker hand is flush five
this hand comprises of all the same card
meaning with good enough deckfixing you can guarantee drawing one immediately

straights on the other hand are made of all different ranks
meaning you can't guarantee drawing one on the first draw of every blind
unless you have only 5 cards or some other extremely difficult deckfixing

so why aren't straights more viable

i think the first step would probably be putting straight above flush in terms of base score
i know that's not what it should be in regular poker but balatro is a different game entirely
even said he just randomly picked numbers for base chip/mult scores of hands

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[raw musk]

erm actually there would be 4800 straight flushes an 480 royal flushes

because the cards can be ordered in 120 different ways

but in flesh five theres 1 way to order them only

[whole lance]

Also, picking a random card from a deck 5 times isnt how deckfixing works. The cards you draw are removed from the deck afterwards

Your first two paragraphs are good trains of thought (ones i can actively agree with) but your math is just completely unrelated to the point of deckfixing, and provides 0 value to your argument

[gritty brook]

people overestimate how hard straights are to draw

[ocean otter]

straights arent easy to draw but making them consistent isnt nearly as hard as youd expect

and playing them early for certain stuff isnt too unreasonable imo

unlike 4oak its not unreasonable to draw out a straight without fixing

also that hard deckfixing is trim the edges and add more of the middle ranks in say 8-q

or 6-10

also poker hand ranking doesnt matter especially when both flush five and straight flush require such heavy fixing usually that youd not use either on most runs

[steady ingot]

i'll kill the math bc it's ruining my point

thanks

[ocean otter]

also base score does not matter

flush is bad as is but the planet being so weak is why flush is bad

straights have good planet scaling

thats why you use them for scoring

[grizzled knoll]

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