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Old 06-20-2012, 11:02 PM   #1
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Arrow Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

My personality type is INTJ > for me poker was easy from the beggining, i didnt read any books for 2 years about poker and was able to make money consistently.

When I started telling to my friends how easy is to make money I was suprised to see how many of them failed.

1 of my friend which I teached became successfull as well he is INTP and now he plays poker full time.

My theory is that Sensoric people will do very bad online, because they do not see "big picture" of things. They do not see the sequence of the events.

Another crusial ability is thinking instead of feeling.

Because all Feeling types will be keen more to tilt and will make more judgemental errors.

Another important function which is very important for success in poker is IQ.
I bet all very successfull online poker players will have IQ of 130+ Thats roughly top 2% of people.

My IQ is 130, my friends 125.

Would be interesting to know what personality type and what IQ posseses successfull high stake players.

What are you thoughts on this formula?
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Old 06-21-2012, 12:12 AM   #2
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

Doesn't seem to take a genius to figure out this isn't the right forum.
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Old 06-21-2012, 12:31 AM   #3
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

There is a correlation between job performance and IQ. Mainly that people with higher IQ will learn how to do the job better quicker. However the playing field is kind of leveled once the "dumber" people catch up or if they have more experience. Then IQ isn't really an indicator of good performance.

the personality part. I don't remember all the aspects of the briggs test. But I remember there being some criticisms to it. That it wasn't very reliable nor accurate.
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Old 06-21-2012, 12:38 AM   #4
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

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Doesn't seem to take a genius to figure out this isn't the right forum.
The way I see it > People who are interested in Science, Math > will be very logical, systematic and good at problem solving.

Thats why i think its the right place to ask.
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Old 06-21-2012, 12:52 AM   #5
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

I heard about research that over 120 don't correlate to more success. There is research showing that IQ doesn't have anything to do with top level chess players and research showing that only has correlation with very very few areas like a part of math when talking about expertise.

At top level is hours you put studying, playing and quality of it. Mostly because it's from memory, you chunk complex information in one "locus". If you autopilot you stop growing despite putting a lot of hours.

Being INTJ seems to be a considerable advantage.
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Old 06-21-2012, 03:34 AM   #6
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

People of various personality types play and are successful at poker.

One thing to be aware of is that Myers Briggs letter types mean less than the actual numbers associated with them. for example, you and I could be be ENTP, but my E score could be 50 while yours could be 5, making me a much larger extrovert. So I think if you're really looking to correlate Myers-Briggs w/ poker, you may want to look at the individual traits measured rather than the perfect letter type.

I'd have to say it would probably be better to be a "T" (thinker) rather than an "F" (feeler), since emotion can get in the way in decision making. However, you wouldn't want to high of a "T" score, since that lack of empathy could be deterimental in reading people. Having a higher "P" score is clearly better for people who wish to multi-table online, since this score indicates how well you handle multitasking. Is it better to be an "E" (extrovert) or "I" (introvert)? Not sure there is anything definitive we could point to in terms of success at poker here. Some of the best players love to talk constantly and others don't say a word.
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Old 06-21-2012, 03:51 AM   #7
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

What I was reading that introverted intuitives consist only of 5% from the whole population.

And that the whole scientific breakthroughs were made by introverted intuitives.

Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton... and so forth.

Also I was reading that introverts trying to find answers to the questions from internal frame of reference. And the way intuition works is that it gathers all missing puzzles of the information and then comes up with the answer subconsiously.

I think this is huge advantage for introverted intuitives and I bet that they will be leaps ahead agains other personalities in the fields of..

financial market forecasting, system development, anaything that requires to find hidden meaning, sequence, or missing piece of the puzzle.

Also introvert if he sits at the computer he doesnt feel drained. I have a friend who is good at poker but he is extrovert and he says i simply cannot sit at the computer for more then 4 hours.

Also what i said previously - i tried to teach my friends to be good at poker but all of them failed.

ESTP, ENFP and others... The only 2 who "got it" and makes a living were

INTJ and INTP.
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Old 06-21-2012, 04:30 AM   #8
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

Your sample size is a bit low. There's a thread about Briggs types in the high stakes subforum (with a bunch of successfull players posting their results).
Sklansky supposedly has a fairly high IQ but AFAIK never did anything noteworthy in online poker. He probably has "no time" for it etc.
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Old 06-21-2012, 12:21 PM   #9
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

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The way I see it > People who are interested in Science, Math > will be very logical, systematic and good at problem solving.

Thats why i think its the right place to ask.
Is > a new notion? I know it means larger than but what is this?
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Old 06-21-2012, 02:33 PM   #10
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

I'm an INTJ, and I absolutely SUCK at poker.
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Old 06-21-2012, 05:08 PM   #11
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I'm an INTJ, and I absolutely SUCK at poker.
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Another important function which is very important for success in poker is IQ.
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Old 06-21-2012, 06:05 PM   #12
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

I'm not very intelligent at all but very knowledgeable imo. I can remember facts and figures easily but can't figure out problems to save my life. As a result I know pretty much all the basic fundamentals of poker and how I should be playing hands, but in game I constantly make mistakes and wrong decisions and cannot apply them correctly. I never seem to learn from mistakes either, I always do the same stupid **** in the same spots over and over.
Somehow I break even, I think with a slightly higher IQ I could be a decent winning player. It's definitely something you need to be a winning player, unless you're Russian
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Old 06-23-2012, 07:33 AM   #13
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Re: Briggs Personality Type + IQ = success posibility in poker?

I think IQ and poker success will have a weak positive correlation once you pass ~120-125. There are so many other factors more important than someone with an IQ of 125 v 135.

If your interested in what personality traits make a good poker player.. Greenstien wrote a long piece on it in his book Ace on the River.
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