My advice to new players is always to begin by learning to play tight aggressive ABC poker. This approach will help you stay in tournaments longer, which means you'll get to see more hands, which gives you more opportunity to practice figuring out how other people play, which is what you have to learn in order to improve your ability to put other players on hand ranges.
For example, if you've seen that a given player tends to limp small pairs from late position but not early, you can assume he doesn't have a small pair if he limps or bets out from early, or if he bets out from late.
The key thing is to watch all the hands and to look for patterns in their play. If you simply forget each hand once it's finished, it's difficult to establish players' tendencies that will help you gauge their ranges more accurately when you play hands against them.
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