I would go for the steak, at least it is something you can touch, feel and enjoy! I would recommend a Ribeye since I do think Tenderloin it's too dry: lacks the fatty and delicious contents.
Anyways... those are rookie numbers, in 134 third place had over 2k..... so I wonder what the first place had.
Keep in mind that when you reach a certain level of skill in this game, you get the gold mine, giving you gold every second, so we are not looking at "pay to win" here, it's just a skill gap.