High-stakes poker archetypes

Extracted Attributes

• Concept

  Player profiles or personality types in high-stakes poker

• Purpose (General)

  To predict opponents' actions and understand their reasoning in poker

• Application by Molly Bloom

  Used to understand opponents in poker and now applied in sales coaching for human connection and relational capital

• Examples (from web search)

  The Expert, The Shmoozer, The Bully, The Maniac, Tight Aggressive Player (TAG), Passive Poker Player

• Key Learnings (Molly Bloom)

  Building Trust, managing Fear, maintaining Integrity

Timeline

• Molly Bloom encountered various high-stakes poker archetypes during her time running underground poker games in Los Angeles and New York City. (Source: d8b368c5-197a-45e0-a7e1-8f95137a5130)

  Unknown

• Following her legal troubles and the writing of her memoir, Molly Bloom began applying lessons learned from her poker experiences, including understanding high-stakes poker archetypes, to her work in sales coaching. (Source: d8b368c5-197a-45e0-a7e1-8f95137a5130)

  After 2013-05-16

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Web Search Results

• Play to Win: Meta-Skills in High-Stakes Poker - Forcing Function

  Let’s say that each of these meta-skill dimensions exists on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 = terrible and 10 = world-class. 1,000 points is a perfect score (10 x 10 x 10), so each player archetype is expressed as a percentage of a hypothetical perfect player. ### Player 1 [The Expert] Strategy = 10 [Incredibly talented player] Opportunities = 2 [Playing in tough games] Execution = 5 [Average execution] Winning = 10 x 2 x 5 = 100 [Realizes 10% of potential] ### Player 2 [The Shmoozer] [...] Unknown players draw my attention first. My first objective, whenever I sit down at a poker table, is to converge on a player archetype for each opponent as soon as possible. Once I converge on an archetype (e.g., tight/loose, passive/aggressive), I have a baseline for their preferred methods of reasoning and can then predict their actions. [...] A superior knowledge of the poker population as a whole—a well-defined archetype of how a player plays across all situations within a particular ecosystem 3. Opponent-Specific Understanding an opponent’s tendencies (both strategic and psychological) better than that opponent understands your tendencies

• The Psychology of High-Stakes Poker: 3 Compelling Archetypes

  In this insightful discussion, Molly Bloom, a high-stakes game architect, breaks down the nature of men obsessed with playing high-stakes

• The Three Archetypes of an Ultra High-Stakes Poker Player - YouTube

  The Three Archetypes of an Ultra High-Stakes Poker Player ... This content isn't available. Skip video.

• What Poker Player Personality Type Are You?-

  Aggressive Poker Player Personality Types · The Bully · The Maniac · Tight Aggressive Player (TAG) ; Passive Poker Player Personality Types · The

• [Serious] How does the personality of a typical poker player differ ...

  They seek satisfaction mostly from the social part of the game. The entertainment and interactionary elements are first priority and winning