Quote Originally Posted by dzeanah
Are you trying to argue that by playing with your 19 hand strategy (essentially, playing fairly tight with very little to no adjusting for different table dynamics, etc), that position, suitedness, pot odds, reads, notes on other players, table image, disuising the strength of your hand, etc., all of a sudden don't matter?
He's saying that for someone new to poker, this strategy is a non-losing one. I'd also guess he's saying that these more advanced topics you're bringing up, while important, will cause a noob more trouble than they're worth.
Things like position, reads, and pot odds aren't advanced concepts. They are fundamentals of poker. To the point where I can't imagine a player beating any game that isn't downright awful without grasping these concepts.

Make sense?
I understand what you are trying to say. FWIW, I don't think your strategy is horrible for beginners in lower stakes games. I think that it could beat a lot of the real loose wild games. But starting hand selection is only a part of NLHE ring games (and I fully understand how not playing certain hands keeps beginners out of a world of hurt postflop), but the game cannot be properly taught to anyone in my opinion by just using a general, non-adapting preflop strategy.

If you stressed the importance of position, how to use it to your advantage, how to avoid playing out of position where you don't really know where you are at, the importance of agression, etc., I think your strategy would be more helpful to those just starting out.