Very little happens in one year...
Best way to look around without playing yourself is probably by opening a poker client, selecting an ongoing game of your choosing, and looking at how some random table behaves.
I think that in a year something could not have changed cardinal in poker. Well, except that on the poker sites there have been minor changes in the design of the programs and new freerolls or tournaments may be added.
A very controversial situation This is much discussed with AA preflop, if you do this early I recommend you make small raises, because if you make a big raise all at once your opponents will probably call with worse hands and according to law of poker, opponents will get the picture. When you get further into the tournament, you show your hand with a bet and thus show everyone that you have a monster hand preflop. I believe that everyone should reflect on this.