Hard stuck can't beat

[JmonDmon]

Trying to beat purple stake and using the Yellow deck.
Any advice on decks or other strats?
An example below,

I got a few close one's but the last big blind, I just cannot reach.
This was the closet in the recent runs.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/JmonDmon/screenshot/2493379529819309875/

My first joker was Certificate, so naturally was looking for Hologram.
Was torn on getting the Baseball but it's hard to get a common so took it. (maybe this was the mistake)
Invisible copied basedball
The Negative was acquired last minute.
Was looking for mults but the only other high-mult card was tarot which i sold (another mistake here, but now joker space was an issue)

I try to adapt with the jokers I get but oh boy it's tiring.

[srn347]

Early certificate is an interesting pick. Not saying it's explicitly wrong (maybe you were digging for red seal synergy or something), but just know that it's ok to not buy anything in the first shop. That said, your final setup is mostly reasonable. I don't see any +chips jokers though, you generally want one of those (unless there's a bunch of hand upgrades simply not visible in the screenshot).

Getting to the final boss is a good sign. It looks like you were only short of violet vessel's high target by roughly a factor of 2 (meaning 1 more uncommon joker would've won it). Just stick to the fundamentals: get +chips, +mult, xmult, and even more xmult, try to scale as many of them as you can, and try not to rely on lucky draws (e.g. don't commit to flushes or full houses unless you've got a lot of suit/rank changers to accomodate it).

[JmonDmon]

Certificate had 1.5, so it was a placeholder which just stayed until the end.

Originally posted by author:

I don't see any +chips jokers

This is something that totally slipped my mind.
I was too invested in mults on this set.

Originally posted by author:

high target by roughly a factor of 2 (meaning 1 more uncommon joker would've won it).

I am not at all a mathematical person so this insight is great! (I usually try to aim for what feels the highest)


Thanks for the feed back! It felt like the same unachievable thing over and over.
This was great encouragement!

Oh I don't know how many times but I reload a ton in this run.

[ENJOYMENT ENJOYER]

Ghost deck is probably the easiest deck to highroll. My only gold stakes win was with a ghost deck. You should aim for a good skip in the first small blind and a scaling joker in the first shop preferably with +multi.