Music while playing poker?

**waltypies** · 11th December 2006, 09:25 PM

So what do you listen to if you do listen to music at all while playing?

Changed to soulful music at present and its working a treat!!

It calms me down and avoids tilt

Avoiding tilt is fun

**Raiser** · 11th December 2006, 09:34 PM

music is a must - i have same playlist for online and live games.... i like listening to entire live concert recordings.... like green day at the bowl, david grey live, coldplay & the verve etc....nice chilled out music to keep me calm....

but sometimes i never even have my music on in a live game just have my earphones in my ears - people think you are not paying attention!

**trustme** · 11th December 2006, 09:39 PM

I find Radiohead ok computer has the same effect, pretty chilled out and you fold a lot of draws because of the extra pessimism that it brings.

Generally I have a couple of playlists set up for poker, ones a bit more up heavy the other a little chilled out.

**waltypies** · 11th December 2006, 09:42 PM

At present i have a radio station on. Soul Power on 1xtra. Very very chilled out!!

**Dice Man** · 11th December 2006, 09:55 PM

In the past I have simply relied on my random playlist. I have noticed however that playing just My Vitriol makes me concentrate about 5x more, I even start noticing how diffeent players play different hands when ususally I don't bother. It's because their music is so intense it puts you on a higher plane of reality.
I have Bullet in a Bible on my playlist but I often just go to the next song whenever they come on because all that screaming is so fucking annoying. Shows you how far they came on that album as about 80% of the crowd thought they were a boyband.

**Raiser** · 11th December 2006, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by Dice Man

I have Bullet in a Bible on my playlist but I often just go to the next song whenever they come on because all that screaming is so fucking annoying.

Thats one amazing album.... i was lucky to be there aswell which makes it even better to listen to!! I would say its propbably one of the best concerts i have been to!! and no i wasnt screaming! lol

**Dice Man** · 11th December 2006, 10:04 PM

I was there too and it wasn't as good as when they played Leeds festival the year before.

I agree it was a great gig. I can't believe he played Good Riddance on an electric guitar at the end. It's a bit too far to say that ruined the song but playing acoustic would've been 10x better.

**Raiser** · 11th December 2006, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Dice Man

I was there too and it wasn't as good as when they played Leeds festival the year before.

I agree it was a great gig. I can't believe he played Good Riddance on an electric guitar at the end. It's a bit too far to say that ruined the song but playing acoustic would've been 10x better.

If i recall correctly - the last song was we are the champions? not on the cd.

**Dice Man** · 11th December 2006, 10:23 PM

Yeah Id forgotten about that but noticed it at the time of the CD. It was predictable theyd play it as theyd played it on the whole tour. Shout was a surprise though.

**Thor2007** · 12th December 2006, 01:26 AM

Go to www.di.fm and listen to hard trance, see how much u can concentrate then

Been listening to the oasis greatest hits recently and tend to have to turn it down when I am involved in a big pot, guess that tells u that it aint doing much for the concentration levels!