• trashboat@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    Oh man…

    This run was a minute ago but pretty sure I leveled Five of a Kind up to like 25-ish by the time I lost

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    3 days ago

    There’s no shame in High Card builds. That’s actually under-leveled. Did you win?

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      1 day ago

      There’s some fantastic advantages, like more hand space for held in hand effects and you don’t have to worry about being able to find a high card. A good high card build is extremely consistent.

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        It’s super reliable. You can always play a high card. Sometimes you can’t play a pair.

        It’s really good with Blackboard because you can just select all the red cards and get it.

        You can get really low hand size, things like stuntman.

        If most of your score is coming jokers, then the hand type you play doesn’t matter so much.

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        2 days ago

        Not for every build. Baron is the main one I think you play high card for. Your mult gets multiplied by 1.5x for every king held in hand. So, it’s ideal to fill your hand with as many kings as possible and play only one card.

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      3 days ago

      I did win, and I had my first 1mil hand!
      Success in my book

      (Although i won with straight and full houses, not high card)

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    2 days ago

    I ran gold stake zodiac the other day, built around red seal, steel queens; I had 2 foil mimes, foil shoot the moon, polychrome free parking, and yorick at x14 by the end. My high card was, like, level 25, and my best hand was 2.54 billion. The psychic ended up taking me down in ante 12, but I wouldn’t have made it much further than that.