r/balatro • u/ZainoTV • 2d ago
Welcome to Major League Balatro Playoffs! The playoff structure is a best-of-five, where the higher seed picks both deck and stake for games 1/3/5, and the lower seed picks for games 2/4. Note: no deck or stake can be played twice in a single best-of-five!
Visit MajorLeagueBalatro.com for stats and full schedule
Semifinals & Grand Finals Playoff Schedule
| Creator 1 | Creator 2 | Date | Time (EDT) | Creator 1 Twitch | Creator 2 Twitch | Casting Stream |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sizaak (2) | Edzy (1) | 10/14 | 4:00 PM | Sizaak | Edzy | MLBA |
| Feinberg (4) | Skoottie (2) | 10/15 | 4:00 PM | Feinberg | Skoottie | MLBA |
| Winner SF1 | Winner SF2 | 10/18 | 12:00 PM | TBD | TBD | MLBA |
Full schedule, stats & results here
Stay Connected
There are several ways to stay connected to Major League Balatro this season. The first is these weekly threads! Come here to discuss the match-ups, recapping the last week and previewing the week going forward.
You can also check out our YouTube channel that has all the info you need and will have VODs of all casted games, as well as weekly recap/preview videos.
You can also follow on Bluesky here or Twitter
Multiplayer Balatro
The league uses the Balatro Multiplayer mod to replace boss blinds with PvP rounds, with both players playing on identical seeds. Each game, you start with 4 lives, and when you lose to a blind or a PvP round, you lose a life. Whoever reaches 0 lives remaining first loses the game.
League Structure
There are two conferences and four total divisions with 6 competitors in each division. Each week, competitors will play a match against another opponent in their conference. Each match consists of 3 games, and you earn a point for each game win and a bonus point for winning the match either 2 games to 1 or 3 games to 0.
The top 2 players in each division, as well as 4 wild card spots in each conference, will go on to the playoffs in weeks 9, 10 & 11, where they will fight a bracket-style tournament to be crowned the Major League Balatro Season 4 Champion and win a $500+ prize pool for the charity of their choice.
Every streamer will stream their perspective, and all games will be cast this season!
Disclosure: This event is monetised by the organisers through Twitch/YouTube revenue as well as our sponsors, John Brown Ceramics & Forever Joint Tops.
r/balatro • u/AutoModerator • 18d ago
Monthly thread for new players / Community Spotlight !
A thread for all new ( and old ) players to ask anything about Balatro to other players !
Questions, tips, mods suggestions. it's all welcome!
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Community Spotlight:
Joker Tracker by u/Outside_Sun398
'You can upload your save file and it automatically checks jokers for you, as well as not having to have a gmail account to use it. It uses your browsers local storage, meaning that it saves your progress without having to make an account (if you clear your cache you have to reupload your save) and is completely ad free and non invasive.'
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Major League Balatro Discord - MLB Website - Competitive Balatro hosted by ZainoTV
Balatro Speedrunning Discord - You read that right! Check it out !
Balatro Multiplayer Mod Discord - There are always weekly tournaments; Head over there to check it out !
Cryptid Mod Discord - a huge mod with ton's of added (intentionally unbalanced) content ! Their wiki is here
Got a community doing something fun or creative with Balatro and want it included here? Send us a modmail
r/balatro • u/player_314159265 • 14h ago
It's a very low chance, so most of the time useless, but it's very useful on that one off-chance. This is mainly a joker supposed to be taken advantage of through Oops! All 6s jokers to maximize these odds. Not an uncommon or higher, because even if you do have Oops, it's still a pretty lower proba.
(Also, art by me, Krita :D)
r/balatro • u/Key_Function9791 • 13h ago
r/balatro • u/Deedrah22 • 1h ago
Because who doesn't love gambling?
It could double (or more?) your round winnings simply by a flip of a card (red/black) or by a round of blackjack for example. Would be fun to break the game by fixing your deck to benefit gambling. The feature could be behind a Gamble voucher (second tier?) to so it would feel more exclusive.
r/balatro • u/notacoptrustmeplease • 11h ago
r/balatro • u/ItIsCraky • 16h ago
A few days ago I posted about these new Joker Stickers I had implemented and fallen in love with for a mod I'm working on, some people showed a lot of interest, so I decided to focus for a day or two on polishing and releasing just this as it's own mod.
You can get it from Github: https://github.com/UnknownDevices/BalatroHighStakes/tree/main
Feedback is super appreciated!
r/balatro • u/UghBurgner2lol • 17h ago
r/balatro • u/BugEyedBigSky • 1d ago
I drew this on Procreate on my iPad! :) Hope y’all like it!
r/balatro • u/Dontrez12 • 7h ago
Finished the C++ grind today. My wife doesn't care and says I should get a j*b. So, I'm sharing with the balatro fam instead. I love this game, but looking forward to a break until the update drops. God speed.
Last Joker: Throwback
Favorite Joker: Spare Trousers, Rebate, Hologram
Least Favorite: Red Card, Dagger, 8 ball, Space
Edit: Done mostly on Yellow, with some Ghost and regular ass Blue deck.
r/balatro • u/deeznutsman2 • 7h ago
ITS DONE. i can finally put this game to rest.
r/balatro • u/Adventurous_Bug_9888 • 1d ago
Seed: 4ACN1RAR
10(+)ectoplasms used (I cant remember if thats right), 4 negative tag skips taken with an ungodly amount of double tags, and a single nat negative brainstorm in ante 37.
Plus a negative invisible joker I held for the whole run to get 1 extra copy joker at the end, bringing me to a total of 24 blueprints and brainstorms. On top of that, I also at one point held $600,000, had 100 jokers, and had a 900+ fortune teller, among other things.
With enough money, its possible to go into the ante 24 and 32 boss blinds with Retcon, 5 turtle beans, and multiple blueprints and brainstorms that are already negative, and the Crimson Heart selects the beans generously.
Along with the natural negatives that show up (Mime, Brainstorm, Idol, Sock and Buskin, Oops All Sixes, Photograph, Hanging Chad, Golden Ticket, Lucky Cat, and more) and everything else, this seed really is something else.
r/balatro • u/SwimmingAd8415 • 11h ago
Please help me decide; it's the first ante, you're about to fight the boss, (and thus get a new voucher after.) You have exactly 10 dollars. Is it worth it to buy the clearance sale voucher, or would your money best be saved for interest?
r/balatro • u/Great_Letter_3683 • 18h ago
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Needed a gold sticker on one joker. Can you guess which one? It’s not any of the jokers in this video I just had to win a run for the trophy to pop. But I finally did it after months of trying and failing.
r/balatro • u/youraveragedrugdeal • 22h ago
took the chad but dawg
photo never appeared again btw
r/balatro • u/Automatic-Radish-360 • 6h ago
I fucking suck.. recently got gold stake red deck and every other deck minus abandoned is at least red stake. Feel like I’m bashing my head against a wall.
I do seem to make some shit decisions that cost the win sometimes and anaglyph seems hinged on making the right decision at right time.
Had acrobat… was literally my only xmult over the course of the entire run why I would abandon it I don’t know. But I did it cus I finally popped double tags on spectral pack (it was ante 8 already I was looking for handy tag for satellite finally) got the rare joker in like the last spectral and said my scaling is good I can probably do it and got brainstorm which actually wasnt the worst.
Rest of my setup was onyx agate blueprint blue joker dusk supernova with two pairs.
Every other deck white stake is easy mode this shit feels like gold stake red deck for me lol
Honestly though this was probably more of an economy loss because I wasn’t poor but never really could fish for good shit
r/balatro • u/undezra • 8h ago
any deck, any stake, and it’s what’s present on your board when you clear ante 8. you can name honorable mentions if there are dream early jokers that you’d sell before getting to the end (like a $21 egg) as part of setting up your dream board
r/balatro • u/GrossenCharakter • 10h ago
No prizes for grossing which joker it is.
I even had a great run going, with 2 jokers left for my C++, the other being Gift Card (which thankfully got gold stickered so it wasn't a total loss). Those temperances came in super handy for the rerolls. Found my dear banana on Ante 6 and skipped small and big blinds all the way until Ante 8 boss blind, which I won... and then arghhhhh
All jokes aside, any tips for finding Gros Michel with a little more reliability?
r/balatro • u/Zestyclose-Click6190 • 16h ago
I have few other custom jokers If you are interested
