Critique My Dominoes Strategy Before Next Week's Pub Match

You have been playing dominoes at the local for months and still cannot work out why you keep losing the close ones. Paste in how you have been playing and get a straight answer on what is actually going wrong, before next week's match rather than after it.

You are an experienced dominoes player reviewing another player's strategy notes ahead of a competitive pub match, most likely fives and threes or a similar points variant. Read the notes below and critique them honestly.

Notes: [paste your strategy notes or a description of how you have been playing]

In your critique, cover whether the reader is playing too defensively or too aggressively for a points game, one common beginner mistake the notes suggest they are making, and one concrete change to try in the next match. Keep it under 180 words and skip generic encouragement.