Why do people play?  I have friends who like to play live for something to do, shoot the breeze at the table and are estatic if they win a little.  These are NOT INTJs and don't win over the long haul.

I believe INTJs play to win.  And love to study the game.

BTW, I'm an INTJ.

I came flat out as an ENTP. Well, not flat out. said slight on E and moderate on other three, guess I'm wishy-washy?

NE way, didnt' say if this would make me suck at poker or not. I suspect the stakes you play and live vs. online could influence their profitibality attributes at said games.

Good posts. I read the synopsis on my type and both the good parts and bad parts were pretty on,,almost scary on a couple of them,

I missed the 2+2 thread, so I'll have to go read it.  This is interesting.

A year ago I hit Shreveport 1-3 at the shoe and turned $100 into $2200 by the end of about 10 hours of play.  I felt much more confident in this session and played from about 10:30pm to 2:30am and turned $100 into $1127.  Not a bad night and it payed for our vacation we were taking.  There was the $300 that I lost in an hour in Oklahoma in February but  I don't like to talk about that

It is tough taking most of these concepts to the 1-2 tables because you just never...in any case get a 'steal' opportunity preflop.  I'm not sure I saw a single flop with less than 3 players that wasn't all in.

The bigest concepts that helped me out were big bets for big hands and small bets for small hands.

I had a nice Check raise to a maniac when I flopped the Nut Flush with AdQd.  I ended up getting his stack in the middle on the river and that took me up to around $400 on the night.  The maniac took a good bit back when I wasn't brave enough to call a $125 turn bet even though he was on tilt and I had a middle pair and a great draw.  I ended up finishing the guys night when I called his bluff with my Top Pair Ks.  The guy blew through about $1200 in 2 hours and a good bit of it ended up in my stack.  

I was probably up at about $1300 around 1pm but stuck it out for another hour and a half because I get so few chances to play and I'm too chicken to put any money on an online site.

There were also a couple of folks that I tried to isolate with minimal success.  It is just too hard to get people out of the pot.  My standard raise was either to 10 or 15 and I would get 2-3 callers.  Folks played horribly after the flop and most of my money was made with folks folding to 2/3 to pot sized bets on the flop and turn when I flopped top pair.

As far as what hands I was playing, I was really loose on the Button and the Cut off as a I had a woman after me that didn't play a single hand in the 1.5 hours she was there.  I did play a number of suited connectors in early position when someone I wanted to play with had already entered the pot and that turned out well for me on a number of seeming dry boards that set up for me nicely.

The first couple of orbits I was really tight.  By the end of the night I was probably too loose with my new found wealth.  If I had really tightend up when the maniac left I may have been able to up my winning quite a bit.  Hind sight is 20/20 but I'm pretty sure that most of the folks at my table at the end of the night were pretty solid.

There was also something about 33.  I flopped a set twice with that and no one saw it coming.  Or the 2d3h that I played on my bb that hit a flush on the river.  That guy hated that....but he never pushed me.

Could I make a living at it?  Probably not online. I'd love to be a simi-pro at a B&M but the closest card room is 2 hours away and is 2-5.  I don't quite have a bank roll for that.

A lot of times I see people calling some thing a donk bet and I think to my self that if I had top pair good kicker or a set I'd be doing the same thing and be calling it a value bet.

JJS said:

INTJ for me too…  Big surprise (NOT)

If I had had to pick one forum member and guess his/her type then it would have been you being INTJ, LOL!

- Tack -

let's find out if poker players tend to have certain personality types?

I'm not sure you can generalize to this extent. 

Mostly, because the people that will participate here, and on 2+2 are not a representative sample of poker players.

I would think that the NT types would show up much more among the readers of poker books, and participants of poker forums.

The N's are looking for patterns and theoretical information, and the T's are processing information by thinking about it, rather than reacting emotionally.  Moreover, the J types are more interested in the big picture than how they got there.  And the I's are think then act, rather than act, then think.

Frankly, the "feel" players aren't going to show up reading books, or posting on forums.  The "math" players are.

That's why you probably see INTJ types at a higher rate than in the general populace, or even a higher rate than their distribution among poker players.

--Just an INTJ looking for a pattern.

a few years ago there was a survey on 2+2 where readers posted their personality type according to a specific method. Out of the 16 possible types there was at least 1 (as far as I remember) that was significantly higher than in the "normal" population. I found the test very interesting. I realized a lot about myself and that helped me very much not only in poker, but also in the other areas of my life.

Here's more information on the concept: http://www.teamtechnology.co.u.....-simpl.htm

And here is the online test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cg.....Types2.asp

The result on 2+2 was that even though just 2.1% of the population are of the type INTJ (link to the table with the population split: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....._Indicator) there were a lot more people of that type in the group on 2+2 (at least the ones who replied to the poll ).

Needless to say that I am also INTJ...

So in case you not only want to study the book, but also yourself give it a try. If you like then let us know your type and let's find out if poker players tend to have certain personality types?

Enjoy,

Greyzy