Ever wanted to go pro in poker? Well, this is possibly the closest you are going to get to achieving that dream of yours. Balatro is a card game—a literal card game—where you play Poker. There is a twist to this seemingly simple formula, however. You don’t really play legal hands of Poker. Confused? We were, too. To many people, the world of cards and card lingo is a little unfamiliar. In Balatro, you get to learn all of this and how to make insane combos with certain cards. You will quickly need to learn words like Ante and Blind if you want to survive in this card world.
Terms in games like Balatro are often a little bit of extra content the game gets you to unknowingly get involved in. Don’t quite understand? Well, the purpose of a good simulation game (like Balatro) is also to educate the audience playing it, because, there would be no point to a simulator if the person playing it did not learn a thing or two about what they were playing. Similarly, this game ropes you in with the gameplay and the concept and teaches you worlds like Blind and Ante in the process.
Balatro: What does Ante mean?
Ante, to put it in Poker terms, is the mandatory bet you are required to place. In the Poker world, this is essentially a buy-in of sorts. It makes you eligible to receive your hand in the game and then proceed to play. Balatro does not intend this word in the traditional Poker sense, however. While it is used in that sense, what it really means in-game is a Level. You are required to clear Antes to progress in Balatro. This essentially equates it to a level. Each Ante is then filled with multiple blinds. A blind is a round or a single fight. Additionally, each Ante in Balatro has 3 of them in ascending order of difficulty.
What does it mean for the game?
Since Ante is basically a level, it is a system the game uses to progress you. Each Ante you beat, you get harder opponents and better rewards. You can sometimes clear multiple Antes to progress and each time you are offered the same 3 blinds. Each Ante has a total of 3 (always) blinds. Each blind denotes a different difficulty, which progressively increases. The Small Blind is the lowest. Big or Large Blind is in the middle of the bunch and finally, we have the Boss Blind. Each completed triad of Blinds will ascend you an Ante in-game.
Yeah, we know, that is a lot. But once you get used to these terms, your in-game journey will get far easier, considering you know your way around the game. Anyway, that is all we have on what an Ante means in Balatro. If you found this article helpful and want to read more such content, make sure to visit Android Gram daily.
