Some additional comments
Game 1: i thought my swindler, forge, watchtower, fishing village would work better than it did. Antony got an early swindle of my swindler, which really set me back, and might have been the difference. I did start greening way too late.
Game 2: As Antony said, my pirate ship was a little slow, even though I got more consistency witha heavy scheme back up. But when my Pirate ships did stall at four, I should have started picking up markets, instead of hoping to hit the copper jackpot with my pirate ships. Good, solid win for Antony
Game 3: I don't know if 1st player made much of a difference. I think it was that I was able to get the early goons by havening away a copper and getting 6 the next turn. That might have been lucky, and it was the difference.
Game 4: I got lured by a quick trader duchy-duke, which I thought would be a little quicker than it was. Antony gets a little early game luck (being able to get haggler AND scrying pool second cycle; loaning and farming villaging through lots of green cards), but uses it very well to create a good engine that trounces me in the long term.
Game 5: I think that a quick duchy duke in this set was a mistake by Antony. I build up my deck first, grab 3 duchies to stop the value of his dukes, and just slowly build up an engine while his deck falls apart due to early greening and questionable copper buys. Maybe a cartographer would have been better instead of a couple of Antony's dukes. I would not have wanted to pick up a duke that early anyway, and it would have made Antony's deck more resilient to greening
Game 6: I think Antony overlooks courtyard here; In a game with trade routes as buys (which Antony neglected and which I feel might not be worth it considering it was a very quick game), I think courtyards helped me set up my turns better. 1st seat almost saves Antony, but his deck is not able to snatch up the last province
Game 7: We both had comparative swindler luck, but mountebanks made the difference. Antony neglected an early mountebank, which i think was a mistake, and luck with throning mountebanks was the difference.
Thanks for the great games Antony