- go for money, and when you buy items, buy the right-most item you can (so always go for bullet upgrades first, if you can't afford it, go for the gun upgrade, and if you can't afford that, go for the boots)
- shoot in the direction you're going when reaching for items close to spawn points
- avoid bombs and tombstones if you can, leave them for emergencies, because they can despawn items/money
sometimes it's RNG and luck, you'll have good runs and you'll have bad runs and you'll die very, very, very much. but you can do it!