Poker MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Poker? Poker is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - so/sp - 387 in Enneagram, SCOEI in Big 5, LIE in Socionics.
ISTP stereotypically, because it's associated with casinos and the seedy underworld, but professional poker is dominated by ENTPs and INTPs. It becomes more of a complex strategy game at that level, but one with a lot more instant gratification and risk-taking than chess or go (both INTJ-dominated).
Biography
The basic play of poker is: people are dealt a hand of five cards, which have a certain 'ranking' and will beat poker hands of a lesser ranking (ranking is generally determined by the rarity of the hand — a straight of ten, jack, queen, king, ace will beat a hand with just a pair of queens, for example). They keep their hand secret, and then bet money on it. The other players have to put in at least the same amount of money if they want to continue, or — critically — forfeit the money already agreed to, to the eventual winner. If it comes down to a showdown, the players show their cards, and the best hand wins all the money bet by all the players! This is why bluffing is possible; you can put in more money than your hand is really worth, in the hope that players will think you've got something great, and back down.
