My Balatro Bajourney

Balatro is my new hyperfixation. I decided to create a file and track my own stats. Here’s what I have after 50 runs.

Note #1: 50 runs is still a pretty small sample size, but it’s enough to start seeing a few patterns emerge. Even so, I’m not putting too much stock in these numbers yet.

Note #2: This is the best formatting I can think of using Squarespace’s UI. I haven’t tested on mobile so if it’s unreadable, sucks to be you, sorry. I’ll think about ways to make it prettier in later iterations. Apologies for the dry stats.

Run Stats

Here’s the runs I won, organized by decks and by stakes.

Note #1: Most of the runs are White Stake runs, and they aren’t evenly distributed regarding the decks.

Note #2: I forgot to track win streaks by Deck. Oops. I’ll start that later.

Note #3: I am also tracking losses. However, there are only 12 so far, and I also forgot to write down half of them. So that data is useless for now. (The goal is to track which decks, stakes, and boss blinds tend to get me the most often. Currently, all the losses I remembered to write down are all from vastly different reasons.)

 

After 50 Runs

 

Type

Total

Wins

38

Runs

50

Win %

76.00

Last 10

8W, 2L

Streak

5

 
 

Win Rate by Deck

 

Deck

Red Deck
Blue Deck
Yellow Deck
Green Deck
Black Deck
Magic Deck
Nebula Deck
Ghost Deck
Abandoned Deck
Checkered Deck
Zodiac Deck
Painted Deck
Anaglyph Deck
Plasma Deck
Erratic Deck

Wins

11
1
2
4
1
0
9
1
0
1
5
1
1
0
1

Runs

15
1
2
4
3
1
11
1
1
1
7
1
1
0
1

Win %

73.33
100.00
100.00
100.00
33.33
0.00
81.82
100.00
0.00
100.00
71.43
100.00
100.00
0.00
100.00

Last 10

0

Streak

0

 
 

Win Rate by Stakes

 

Stakes

White Stake
Red Stake
Green Stake
Black Stake
Blue Stake
Purple Stake
Orange Stake
Gold Stake

Wins

33
4
1
0
0
0
0
0

Runs

43
6
1
0
0
0
0
0

Win %

76.74
66.67
100.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00

Last 10

9W, 1L
4W, 2L
1W
0W
0W
0W
0W
0W

Streak

5
2
1
0
0
0
0
0

 
 

My thoughts:

I don’t have enough data to really get anything useful.

Joker Stats

Stats regarding the jokers I used.

Taken #: The amount of RUNS in which this joker ended up in my inventory.
Seen #: The amount of RUNS in which I saw this joker in a shop or buffoon pack.
Taken %: Of the runs I saw this joker, the percentage I took it.
Wins: How many runs where this joker was in my inventory when I completed ante 8.

Note #1: I will only track my builds for Gold Stake runs. Haven’t done one yet, so no tracking.

Note #2: I’m tracking all 150 jokers, but am only listing the top 15 or so for each category.

Note #3: I’m also tracking the highest stake I won a run with this joker in my inventory in ante 8, but not listing it here.

Note #4: Finally, I’m tracking all the decks I’ve won a run with this joker in my inventory in ante 8, but not listing that.

 

Most Taken Jokers by #

 

Pos.

T1
T1
3
4
T5
T5
T5
T5
T9
T9
T9
T9
T13
T13
T13
T13
T13
T13

#

38
78
34
86
43
65
70
83
23
29
67
104
1
12
13
39
50
55

Name

Gros Michel
Photograph
Abstract Joker
Fortune Teller
Supernova
Square Joker
Hologram
Mail-In Rebate
Mystic Summit
Raised Fist
Riff-Raff
Smiley Face
Joker
Wily Joker
Clever Joker
Even Steven
Ice Cream
Constellation

Taken #

16
16
15
12
10
10
10
10
9
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
8
8

Seen #

20
25
24
21
28
24
17
22
24
23
27
22
26
25
23
18
23
11

Taken %

80.00
64.00
62.50
57.14
35.71
41.67
58.82
45.45
37.50
39.13
33.33
40.91
30.77
32.00
34.78
44.44
34.78
72.73

Wins

2
8
4
6
3
6
9
1
0
0
0
5
1
1
1
1
0
8

 
 

Most Taken Jokers by % (excluding Legendaries)

 

Pos.

T1
T1
3
4
5
6
T7
T7
T9
T9
11
12
13
14
T15
T15

#

61
123
128
38
89
55
95
138
91
136
78
34
92
70
86
139

Name

Cavendish
Blueprint
Seeing Double
Gros Michel
Stone Joker
Constellation
Trading Card
Brainstorm
Lucky Cat
Stuntman
Photograph
Abstract Joker
Baseball Card
Hologram
Fortune Teller
Satellite

Taken %

100.00
100.00
83.33
80.00
75.00
72.73
71.43
71.43
66.67
66.67
64.00
62.50
60.00
58.82
57.14
57.14

Taken #

3
5
5
16
3
8
5
5
2
6
16
15
6
10
12
4

Seen #

3
5
6
20
4
11
7
7
3
9
25
24
10
17
21
7

Wins

3
4
2
2
2
8
1
5
2
4
8
4
6
9
6
0

 
 

Most Wins

 

Pos.

1
T2
T2
4
T5
T5
T5
T8
T8
T8
T8
T12
T12
T12
T12
T12

#

70
55
78
115
65
86
92
47
58
104
138
34
109
123
136
144

Name

Hologram
Constellation
Photograph
Hanging Chad
Square Joker
Fortune Teller
Baseball Card
Burglar
Green Joker
Smiley Face
Brainstorm
Abstract Joker
Sock and Buskin
Blueprint
Stuntman
Burnt Joker

Wins

9
8
8
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4

Taken #

10
8
16
7
10
12
6
5
7
9
5
15
6
5
6
5

Seen #

17
11
25
19
24
21
10
10
28
22
7
24
12
5
9
9

Taken %

58.82
72.73
64.00
36.84
41.67
57.14
60.00
50.00
25.00
40.91
71.43
62.50
50.00
100.00
66.67
55.56

 
 

Least Taken Jokers by % (excluding Legendaries)

 

Pos.

T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
T1
15

#

14
18
21
25
28
59
64
66
69
72
77
120
125
134
49

Name

Devious Joker
Four Fingers
Ceremonial Dagger
Loyalty Card
Dusk
Superposition
Madness
Seance
Shortcut
Baron
Luchador
Glass Joker
Merry Andy
The Order
Runner

Taken %

00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
3.33

Taken #

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

Seen #

29
7
10
2
11
25
15
14
9
3
9
2
6
7
30

Wins

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

 
 

My thoughts:

  • There are still 14 jokers I have never even taken, despite having seen some of them a lot. I don’t count the legendaries here, since I can’t control which ones I get. However, there are two (Chicot and Canio) I have yet to see since tracking this.

  • In my main file I occasionally do Straight runs, but apparently in all 50 of these I didn’t go for them at all. A lot of the jokers I’ve never picked up relate to Straights somehow.

  • Hologram and Constellation are OP.

  • Burglar is REALLY good for the Green Deck. It’s even better when you get Burglar and Blueprint, which I have done at least once here.

Consumable Stats

Stats about all consumables.

Runs Owned: The amount of runs in which this consumable ended up in my inventory at least once, or was used at least once (excluding vouchers).
Total Used: The total amount of times this consumable was used (excluding vouchers).
Used per Run: The average amount of this consumable used for each run that it was owned or used at least once (excluding vouchers).

Note that for vouchers, I count things a little differently. The upgrades are naturally going to be picked much less often than the initial voucher, so I’m counting each voucher pair together. They are organized by which initial voucher was purchased the most. I’m also counting the “Upgrade %,” which is the percent of times that, after getting the initial voucher, I also purchase the upgrade. This gets slightly skewed by the presence of the Magic, Nebula, and Zodiac decks, which grant a free initial voucher that I am not counting. But in this case, I don’t care.

 

Tarot Cards

 

Pos.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

Name

Death
The Hanged Man
The Wheel of Fortune
The Hermit
Temperance
The Fool
The Emperor
The High Priestess
Strength
The Magician
The Chariot
The Devil
The Empress
The Tower
Justice
The Moon
The Hierophant
Judgement
The Lovers
World
The Sun
The Star

Runs Owned

42
42
33
37
37
39
36
32
34
13
23
18
20
21
17
14
15
23
13
17
12
13

Total Used

114
107
99
98
96
90
87
72
72
42
35
30
29
28
24
23
21
21
18
14
8
6

Used per Run

2.71
2.54
3.00
2.64
2.59
2.31
2.42
2.25
2.11
3.23
1.52
1.67
1.45
1.33
1.41
1.64
1.40
0.91
1.38
0.82
0.67
0.46

 
 

Planet Cards

 

Pos.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Name

Uranus (Two Pair)
Pluto (High Card)
Earth (Full House)
Jupiter (Flush)
Mercury (Pair)
Venus (Three of a Kind)
Mars (Four of a Kind)
Saturn (Straight)
Neptune (Straight Flush)
Planet X (Five of a Kind)
Eris (Flush Five)
Ceres (Flush House)

Runs Owned

35
30
26
18
24
24
24
21
16
8
1
0

Total Used

180
169
142
90
86
62
60
30
27
25
6
0

Used per Run

5.14
5.63
5.46
5.00
3.58
2.58
2.50
1.43
1.69
3.13
6.00
0.00

 
 

Spectral Cards

 

Pos.

T1
T1
3
T4
T4
T4
T7
T7
T9
T9
11
T12
T12
T12
T15
T15
T15
18

Name

Grim
Medium
Deja Vu
Familiar
Cryptid
Black Hole
Sigil
Immolate
Aura
Trance
Talisman
Ectoplasm
Ankh
The Soul
Wraith
Ouija
Hex
Incantation

Runs Owned

9
8
8
8
6
8
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
0

Total Used

10
10
9
8
8
8
6
6
5
5
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
0

Used per Run

1.11
1.25
1.13
1.00
1.33
1.00
1.00
1.20
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.00

 
 

Vouchers

 

Pos.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Name

Paint Brush/Palette
Blank/Antimatter
Clearance Sale/Liquidation
Grabber/Nacho Tong
Director’s Cut/Retcon
Wasteful/Recyclomancy
Reroll Surplus/Reroll Glut
Seed Money/Money Tree
Overstock/Overstock Plus
Hone/Glow Up
Crystal Ball/Omen Globe
Telescope/Observatory
Tarot Merchant
Planet Merchant
Hieroglyph/Petroglyph
Magic Trick/Illusion

Taken/Taken

27/7
22/5
20/3
18/8
16/1
13/5
13/1
11/2
10/2
9/1
9/1
8/5
7/4
6/1
3/2
1/0

Upgrade %

25.93
22.73
15.00
44.44
06.25
38.46
07.69
18.18
20.00
11.11
11.11
62.50
57.14
16.67
66.67
00.00

 
 

My thoughts:

  • Tarot cards that I use the most in total tend to also be the cards I use the most per run, with one glaring exception: The Magician is the card I use the most, by a fair margin. This means I don’t use it often, but if I pull out The Magician in a run, I’m going to use it a lot.

  • There are a few tarot cards in which the “Runs Owned” is greater than the “Total Used.” This happens when the card appears in my inventory but I never use it. When this happens, it’s always because of something that generates random tarot cards, such as the Judgement card, or the Cartomancer joker, to name a few. Three of the suit changing Tarot cards are like this, since I rarely have runs so far where I care about suit (except Clubs, which are the best suit, fight me in real life).

  • The Earth card is inflated by one particular run where I got it up to level 46, all using cards due to the sheer amount of blue seals in my deck (Hologram + Certificate + Brainstorm + Cavendish baybeeeee). I do like Full House builds, but I don’t do them at a rate anywhere close to High Card or Two Pair builds, but if you just look at the numbers it appears I run Full Houses just as often.

  • 50 runs is still a small sample size, but I’ve only had one run where I played a Flush Five, and no runs where I played a Flush House (or at least, no runs where I played one and then got the planet card). I love the secret hands, but they are usually too much work to get and I do just fine with all the other hands, thank you very much.

  • Because I haven’t played a lot of Ghost Deck runs and have avoided cards like Sixth Sense and Seance, the only times I’ve really used Spectrals is through Spectral Packs - meaning that it’s unusual for me to play the same card multiple times in a run, and downright impossible for me to own a Spectral Card and not use it.

  • Apparently I don’t think Incantation is any good.

  • I can’t believe I’ve taken Observatory five times. I legitimately can’t remember doing this, and have never once used its ability.

  • The top four vouchers on my list are the ones I take every single time if I have the economy. So what you’re seeing is the rate I’ve seen those vouchers, moreso than how often I want to buy them.

  • Hieroglyph and Petroglyph are actually really good but are highly situational. The times I took them ended up helping me win the runs really well, according to my memory.