Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
The first lesson seems to be a band-aid that seeks to slow the bleeding of chips through the TAGG cure-all - to ensure that you at least start any hand you play with better equity on average than the opponents.
The biggest leak any player can have is playing too many hands and to play them out of position. If we tighten up only to hands that ought to be played from all positions, and then add in hands for the LP seats, a noobie will quickly realize the game isn't hard. When the flop smacks them in the face, they're generally ahead and should bet. When they wiff the flop, look for weakness before attacking. And they need to learn to start "feeling" the game, learning to scan the board and think and decide if they're likely ahead or not for turn and river.

Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
For a beginner post-flop section I would consider something like the following simpler to follow:
Understand how pot sized bets (heads-up) mean that the pot is 3 times bigger on the turn and 9 timers bigger on the river than it is on the flop and consider what that means for all betting decisions.
Try to play a pot that by the showdown contains:
Straight flush, quads, full house, straight, flush, sets: All of your stack
2 pair: Half your stack
1 pair: Between one fifth and one quarter of your stack.
High card (like A or K): A tenth of your stack
Every time you are faced with a decision (check/call/bet/raise/fold) consider if you are ahead or behind. If you think you are behind check or fold. If you think you are ahead call, bet or raise with a plan to put in as much of your stack at showdown as described above considering the strength of your hand - unless too much of your stack is already in, in which case you have to fold (and you'd have to be very sure of your opponent bluffing to do otherwise). If you are in doubt and cannot tell if you are ahead or behind: Fold every time.
I'll summarize: Big hand, big pot. Small hand, small pot. At 10nl, I'm pretty much willing to stack off with 2 pair, probably 70% of the time.

And it also matters how the chips go in. I'm much happier to play for two-thirds of my chips when I was the one leading out with bets on every street, even with TPTK. I'm pretty unhappy playing for 2/3's of my stack with TPTK when I've had to call a couple bets to get there.

Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
This all said, I'll skip the rest of lesson 1 and start wrapping my head around lesson 2.
Thanks for all your thoughts on this - I appreciate them. Good luck with the rest of it.