Jeremy is a useful player page for beginners because some poker hands only look bad when you ignore where they were played from. Viewers often see a suited gapper, weak ace, or thin defend and assume the lesson is “pros play trash.” Most of the time the real lesson is that position changes what a hand is worth.
That is one of the biggest beginner traps in poker media. A hand is remembered by its two cards, but the profitable decision was often created by seat, stack depth, and initiative long before the flop hit. If you copy only the cards, you usually copy the wrong part of the hand.
Bad-looking hands are often position stories
The clean reason a Jeremy-style open can work is that late position allows more hands to realize their equity. On the button or cutoff, a hand does not need to make top pair every time to be useful. It can win by stealing blinds, c-betting favorable boards, or controlling the size of the pot with information advantage. Those edges are invisible if you only stare at preflop card strength.
The opposite is also true. Move the same hand into early position and the whole decision changes. Now more players can wake up with stronger holdings, more callers can attack weak top pairs, and you lose the comfort of acting last. A hand that is routine on the button can become a leak under the gun. That is why professionals can seem loose without actually being careless.
Initiative makes later streets easier
Initiative is the second piece beginners often miss. Being the first raiser gives you fold equity and lets you tell a more believable story across later streets. Defending a marginal hand without initiative is much harder. So when you review Jeremy hands, notice whether the play starts as an open, a flat, a 3-bet, or a blind defend. Those labels matter more than the highlight title.
This is also why starting-hand charts help beginners even when strong players seem to ignore them. The chart is not there to imprison you. It is there to stop you from borrowing advanced position-based opens before you have the postflop skill to support them. Cleaner preflop ranges buy simpler turn and river decisions.
What beginners should keep
When you review Jeremy hands, ask where the hand began before deciding whether the cards looked loose. Then ask who had initiative and how much pressure the player could realistically apply after the flop. If you build that habit, “bad-looking hands” stop being mysterious and start looking like structured position poker.