Been seeing heaps of fresh poker guides and clips lately, and way too many of them are chucking solver chat and fancy range stuff at people who are just trying to work out why position matters. Feels completely backwards. If someone is new, the first stuff they need is dead simple: stop playing rubbish, value bet your good hands, pay attention to who keeps calling light, and don’t go punting chips just because you’re bored.
Some of the advice getting pushed now is honestly doing people no favours. Telling a brand new player to defend blinds super wide and start mixing bluffs like they’re in a high roller... mate. Most low stakes games are full of people making basic mistakes over and over. You don’t need galaxy-brain stuff to beat that. You need patience, decent hand selection, and the ability to fold when a spot stinks.
Also reckon bankroll talk gets skipped way too often. New players hear about aggression and pressure and all the sexy stuff, then torch a week’s budget in one bad arvo because nobody told them not to sit in games they can’t really afford. Same with tilt. Half the battle early on is just not doing dumb revenge calls after a bad beat.
If you had to give a new player a proper starting roadmap, what’s on it? Not theory for theory’s sake — the actual stuff that helped. Keen to hear what people reckon is still the best foundation, and what advice floating around now is just bloody noise.