This may sound stupid, and some of you may feel the urge to shout at me as perhaps it’s all right there for me and I just don’t see it, but what I'm after, and this is something I am sure will help most people trying to improve their poker, is a structure to my learning. I currently spilt my small amount of poker time each week about 50/50 between playing and studying (reading articles/posts/analysis) but I think focussed studying in certain areas would be far more beneficial.

There are so many good articles and posts on this site that it can be a bit overwhelming at times. Every now and then I stumble over a new post with links to 20 other awesome posts eg Robb's Giving something back post or ISF's poker strategy articles
(anyone who hasn’t read these should do so, including all links within, ‘cos they are friggin awesome) as well as many, many others.

My issue is half the time I don’t know what I should be applying at what level and what I should be studying next. What I would like, and think could be really helpful to lots of people, is a structured study guide.

For example, I am currently playing the 5nl tables. I think I need to be focussing on playing tight, spotting monsters/sets, categorising players (eg Tagg, Lagg, calling stations etc) and putting players on ranges. What I don’t think I need to be thinking about is balancing my range with bluffs & good hands to ensure I’m not exploitable or attempting to use Rentons ABCD theorem. If indeed I should be thinking about this in detail, then I am doing something wrong. But the trouble is I stumble across lots of interesting articles and then want to apply what I have half learnt.

So my point here, could someone who knows what they’re talking about work on a post that will be a full structured pathway of learning, perhaps starting with the basic strategy (or links to) needed for beating the micro stakes and pointing out what areas of your game you should be focussing on here, and then pointing out how your strategy should evolve as you slowly move up, perhaps linking to appropriate articles or forum discussion threads that you should be looking to learn and focus on as you move up to the next stakes level

For example, at 5nl focus on this, good links are here.... at 25nl now start to adjust your game like so, focus on xxx area of your game and read these links .... and so on

Sorry if this seems lazy, but I have read all articles in the digest (some many times) plus many more, but I still feel a lack of structure is hindering my progress.

(You may now commence with sarky links to the digest page and/or links to the beginners circle forum)

On a side note, is there a post somewhere purely focusing on putting villains on ranges cos I suck at this and it seems to be the most important part of poker.