Sequence Queens Strategy To Kick Your Friends butt

About Sequence Queens, from BoardGameGeek:

Like classic Sequence, play cards from your hand to capture matching spaces on the 10 x 10 main board and form a Sequence of 5 gems in a row. But to win, you must also play pairs from your hand to place gems on the new 4 x 6 Queens Court board and form an Alliance of 3 gems in a row. You'll get an extra card in your hand for each Alliance. All queens are wild for making pairs in the Court and a pair of queens will let you remove one gem and place on of your own. On the main board, one-eyed queens remove a gem and two-eyed queens are wild. Kings and Jacks have been thematically replaced with Knights and Ladies.