If you could go back and tell yourself a single key piece of poker advice during the different stages of your poker career, what would it be?

• Advice for when you were a Beginner struggling to win (or even break-even):
• Advice for when you were an Intermediate struggling to consistently win:
• Advice for yourself today as an Advanced player wanting to crush the game:

I'm really curious about what the old hands and experts here in the forum have to say.
Cheers!

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Beginner: play tighter. Seriously. Like, super tight.

Intermediate: choose better bet sizes given your opponent’s range and playing style. Go for three streets of value more often.

Advanced: you’re better than most, but your hand still sucks. In short, play tighter (again). Exercise good bankroll management and don’t take shots you can’t afford to take.

Beginners: no matter how far you make it, never become complacent. Never stop learning.

Intermediate: bank your big wins, it’s all just clay chips or numbers on a screen until you quit. If you never quit when ahead, you never book a win.

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How tight would you recommend?

Only play TT+/AK, 3!/GII with AA/KK only. (Like fold AQ-, lesser broadways (suited or not), lower pocket pairs, suited connectors, bad suited aces, regardless of position.) Do this for a few months then slowly open up to a more standard opening range, gradually.

Beginner:

"Flop is 6s8c9s and you hold Tc9c. Villain shoves for full pot and turns over his hand to show you AA. Do you call?"

This lesson was my first major breakthrough as a beginner. I started to think in pot odds instead of trying to think whether or not my hand was winning more than half the time. Our hand is technically behind, but it has more than enough equity to call.

Intermediate:

"Board is 22233. You hold KK OOP, check to villain. Villain can either hold QQ or AA. Villain shoves for full pot with all of their aces, and some of their queens. How often do you call?"

This basic situation taught me how game theory works. You need to figure out pot odds, MDF, expected value, and you need to piece it all together. You should call 50% of the time to make villain's bluffs indifferent, obviously.

Advanced:

"Stop being such a ****ing calling station, you're never good here. They aren't balancing their AA value bets with nearly enough QQ bluffs."

You'll learn nothing playing that way.

That is if you consider only the technical element in the equation.

What you're saying is true as far as the physical practicing is concerned; indeed it might seem like you won't get any creative maintaining a way of operating as monotonous as the one described here.

But given the overview required to actually succeed, the learning goes, in a general way, far beyond, implicating other non-technical elements, most of which can be discovered by actually just practicing as described for a start.

I think the person who wrote the post you responded to took this for granted, in the end mentioning future development of your game.