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From the perspective of a participant rather than host of my soon to be regular home game, the following are my thoughts of a "beginners school or class for the newbies of any game".

I would welcome the host of my game to teach any newbies that want to enter our game the basics and strategies to become more consistent players. The best players to have in your game are not the newbies. In my experience it is the mediocre players, who have yet to learn the subtle nuances that make a consistent winner, that are the best opponents. These are players that have a good understanding of the game, and a decent amount of experience, but have yet to make that transition into a consistent winning player. A beginners school no matter what guidance was provided will only help a newbie become mediocre. Only experience will allow a player to advance much further than that.

My only reservations would be the following:

1) No advice during a live game in which the "regulars" are playing

2) No specific advice or tactics on how to play any of the regulars during "beginners school" for example, I wouldn't want there to be some sort of lesson such as, when "xyz" regular has raised in our game in early position \that it usually means that he has a hand in xyz range and you should usually fold, call or raise accordingly.

Tactics and lessons should be taught in a generic sense such as if anonomous player y has been raising in middle position and has been observed to have xyz range of hands at the showdown then you may want to play xyz range of hands in xyz fashion.

Although the sharing of certain player's tendencies is a regular and intergral benifit of being part of a circle of casino regulars, it may not be as welcome of a practice in a formal setting within a limited population of a home game rotation.

Only my thoughts, for what they are worth.