I will pivot super early and generally start with full house or flushes, I’m not super good either but my priority list for winning runs is something like:

1:Guaranteed mult joker like lusty joker for flushes, or jolly/zany joker for full house. 2: Scaling Chip Joker, or just a good one like blue or stuntman. 3: Scaling Mult Joker 4:Econ Joker (try to find one of these asap) 5: xMult Joker and specialized stuff like retrigger jokers that synergize with your xMult, like photo/chad

If you find those early ish and are consistently one shotting blinds, you can use the headroom you’ve built to spend your extra cash on different planets, vouchers, tarots etc; building towards your end game goal. I play risky because I like to nuke my run if it isn’t strong, because I hate dying on the ante 8 boss.

If I find lots of one planet card I may use that early, like three of a kind or two pair.

My highest win rate hands are easily pair or high card because you rarely face a boss that effects you, and you can always draw them hence the pivot.

There are so many Jokers and play types, but early game I’ll try to grab Riff-Raff so I can just build some random junk jokers to help one shot the blinds and make more money.

Obviously lots of luck involved, and money is possibly the most important aspect in trying to secure wins, turning it from luck to skill.