No Lie

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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.
If I'm not mistaken, this is even a Royal Flush with the given jokers.
- It's close, but a royal flush would require four of these five A, K, Q, J, 10. The hand only has three A, Q, J.
  
  Ah, I see. I thought the check is if it's a straight to the ace.
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?
- I don't know jokers by sight yet, but there's one that lets you do straights with gaps... So 2, 4, 5, 7, 9
  Another that counts hearts and diamond as same as club and spade as same.
  3rd allows straights and flushes to be played with 4 cards.so 7, 9, J , Q.
  8 is a skip, 10 is a skip. Ok'd by jokers. Ace isn't counted in scoring or hand.
  
  Ace will get counted as part of the straight.
- 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
  
  The ace isn't scored here, but even if it was, if you had 4/5th of a straight and 4/5th of a flush, it's still a "straight flush".
  In other words, if the 7 of Clubs was actually a 2 of Clubs, it still counts.
- 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.

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