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What everyone else said, but also, people shouldn't have this magic obsession with starting hands as if that is the key to poker strategy. I agree with just about everyone that beginners need to tighten up their games a lot, play only premium hands (and, in multiway pots, hands with good drawing potential), and play them aggressively.
But poker is fundamentally a game about reads, not simply waiting for a good hand and then playing it. The most important factors about whether and how you play most starting hands are what your position is, what other players have done before you and what that tells you about what they have and what types of players they are, and what the rest of the table is likely to do after your action. Whether, for example, something like KQ suited is a "good starting hand", and what you should do with it, depends entirely on these factors.
So I am not much of a fan of these lists. I think most poker players know the basics-- pocket pairs, aces with a high kicker, broadways, and suited connectors. Tighten up in early position, loosen a little bit in late position. Beyond those generalities, however, it's best to rely on your reads and not a list.
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