Use yellow deck on white stakes.
Here's a good way to start:
Small blind 1 - discard 9, 8, and 5. Then play a full house of face cards.
Shop 1 - Open buffoon pack, grab S&B. Buy clever joker
Big blind - discard K, 10, 7, 4, 3 and play full house of 2s and Q
Shop 2 - open arcana packs, grab triboulet and then Emperor in the second pack. Use hermit, and buy blueprint. Now you are very powerful, congrats!
The Club Boss - Discard lowest 5 value cards. Use Death to turn a card into a queen or king and play a full house of face cards, earning 3 million points when you only needed 600. You will go into ante 2 with 20 bucks too
Ante 2 - You can get the hieroglyph voucher here