She also stated that the main idea behind the song was sex and gambling. I gamble but I've also dated a lot of guys who are really into sex and booze and gambling, so I wanted to write a record my boyfriends would like too. She suggested that the song dealt with her personal experience with bisexuality. The idea behind the song was to be with a man but fantasizing about a woman, hence the man in the song needs to read her "Poker Face" to understand what is going through her mind. Problems playing this file? Poker Face is set in a common time time signature , with a fast tempo of beats per minute.