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Personality Type and Poker?

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  1. BlackRain BlackRain is offline

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    Oct 25th, 2005 (10/25/2005 11:03am)

    Was just reading an article where the author argues that an introverted personality type, and more specifically INTP(Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving) and INTJ(Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging), are directly correlated with winning poker. This is the case he claims, because the introvert personality is more apt at self reflection, self examination and concentrating on the actions and words of other people for long periods of time. He argues that the INTJ is probably best disposed of the 16 personality types because "this type is motivated by the practical application of knowledge."

    He goes on to argue...

    "Perhaps 70, 75 or even 80% of all poker champions are of these two types[INTP and INTJ]. If this was an verified scientific fact, what might that mean for poker worldwide? Perhaps a correct but inverse conclusion could be correctly drawn. Perhaps some specific Myers-Briggs personality types are more apt to perform poorly at poker, in the same way a narrow subset of personality types is apt to do very well."

    The article is listed here

    http://www.pokerfyi.com/articles/4/20.aspx

    and the Myers-Briggs personality test is listed here

    http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

    Thoughts/Comments?
  2. Philly Bones Philly Bones is offline

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    Oct 25th, 2005 (10/25/2005 11:36am) in reply to BlackRain

    I would imagine it just means that those people with that personality type enjoy the game more and hence spend more of their time playing it. The more you play, and the more you study, the better you should get. FWIW I hope the article is true because I took the test and am a INTJ personality type. Being an INTJ I would like to see more data to support this claim. Reading over the article it seems plausible that these personality types are better equipped for a game such as poker. I wonder if we could convince the people in the player ranking to take the meyers-brigg test to see if that theory holds up in that case. It would be really interesting to see.
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