Aqualung made a statement to me that got me thinking.
He said, “NPP is not NPP anymore because it doesn’t have very many of the original players left.”
My fertile brain really started to digest this statement.
Like for instance, is the United States not the United States anymore, because the ‘original’ people that understood the Constitution and how valuable freedom is, are no longer with us?
Score one for Aqualung.
But a poker ‘club’ is not a country. It can’t be (ironically), because everyone is so FREE and untaxed to do what they want with their cash.
But let’s pretend NPP is a country, and the citizens have total liberty and freedom, as they do at NPP.
NPP is also a country broken up into several states:
Internet
Home Game
Casino
High Stakes
Low Stakes
Different Games
Holdem Only
Time (Multiple States)
Day (Seven States)
Tourney
Ring
Blog
Rail
Hen Pecked
There are probably a few other ‘states’ not on this list.
Because NPP citizens are so free, they are able to move to any state at any time – and stay or go as they please. Some never visit other states. Some visit them all. Others stop by – just to look around. Others go to one state and never leave.
NPP is made up of players from all states, and most have at least rental property in some of the other states.
Some of our NPP citizens no longer visit the ‘State of Internet.’ Some will never venture out of that state. Some only visit the state of Blog. Some never visit blog unless it is necessary.
Some NPP’ers moved too far away from the State of Home Game to visit there. Some only play at Home Game or State of Casino. Still other NPP’ers will never visit Home Game.
Some think the State of Home Game is actually a part of the State of High Stakes or Low Stakes.
Some citizens think the NPP Tuesday is in the State of Low Stakes and others think it is in the State of High Stakes. Either way, these citizens ended up in the State of Rail.
Some NPP citizens claim they can’t leave their State of Day or Time to visit NPP in our State of Tuesday at 8pm.
Many NPP citizens are visiting the Rail – some temporarily, some permanently, and some are just in the State of Rail - but only in the country of NPP.
Regardless, NPP can still be NPP for all our citizens, even with our citizens moving all over the country often and freely.
What we must do - as citizens of NPP - is to make more citizens! Recruiting is what it is all about. It is all a population game. The more citizens - the more movement between the states, for all the states of NPP.
And just like the United States of America, the country of NPP can only be strong if the citizens are involved and working to make it a better country – instead of expecting the leaders to do everything for them.
Ask not what NPP can do for you, but ask instead, what can you do for Faldo?….errrrr, I mean NPP?
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Faldo -
Very good posting here.
Something else...back in 1994..when I was being courted to join NPP while regularly attending the Beefeater restarunt. One of the selling points was '..it was an oppty to come together with a good group of guys to improve my poker skills, so I can take down the mopes in other venues..' (set aside the fact that Nik was also my manager at the time - I was under a tremendous amount of sexual pressure - but enough about my ANnuAL review.)
To improve your skills at NPP, there needs to be some turnover, and evolution in the regular players' games.
For example - put Nik, Thai Food, Tolly, LarryP, Beerhog, 7jokers and myself at a table for 8 hours and all we do is; try to order pizza one hour after the pizza joints close, quote lines from the same rated 'R' movies, throw in 2 or 3 hundred BBM references and pass money around the table. No big winners - no big losers...Why?
Because we all know how each of us play. We have a great night, but we do not hone our poker skills.
So it is important that NPP grows and new members bring 'their game' to the group. In the end, all NPP players become better poker players, and to me that is what it is all about.
It won't go without saying that Faldo is the heart of NPP. He has been the one constant in the game for 17? years.
Herbavor
PS: Someday I will be on TV playing in a poker tourney. I look forward to wearing some NPP gear, so people can ask, What is NPP?
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