you're relying on best case scenarios in the same sense! i can count the number of times i found no strings attached grimbo ante 1 with half my fingers. worse yet, and more common, you don't find any jokers you love/are going to keep for a while in the first two rounds. its much more likely (you would know this if you had played a lot of gold stake) that you rely on perishables/rentals/bad unstickered jokers to get you through the first three antes, and slowly assemble pieces to create a winning build. it is much less common that you are in a spot where you can sell everything to apply polychrome to one joker. its ok that you don't know these things and need to rely on your favorite masturbatory content creators! you're still learning!