music

bookiebasher

hi guys...just wondering does anyone stick the headphones on while playing online and if so what music do u listen to...i slapped on metallica last nite and for once the slowplay did not pee me off ha ha

phantom_lord

yeah music is great, you can put in a six hour stint pretty easily and it flys by. pretty much listen to everything when i play, i don't think floyd is good to listen to while playing tho

In a tournament i usually listen to kyuss in the early go with the flow stages, then a bit of qotsa later on in the more active part...



btw, a big well known punter has been telling everyone to back detroit city ante post for months now...

BigCityBanker

phantom_lord wrote:

btw, a big well known punter has been telling everyone to back detroit city ante post for months now...

I will eat my racingpost if this hound wins the champion hurdle.

phantom_lord

BigCityBanker wrote:

I will eat my racingpost if this hound wins the champion hurdle.

yeah, my dad's of the same opinion. but the other guy has him as a dead cert, I've never seen anyone so certain about a horse.



well, except for my dad about media puzzle/hedgehunter/amberleigh house months before their wins

5starpool

phantom_lord wrote:

In a tournament i usually listen to kysuss in the early go with the flow stages, then a bit of qotsa later on in the more active part...

Did you just use random combinations of letters to represent bands/music types?

Kids today, I just don't know.

Hawk Eye

qotsa=Queens Of The Stone Age

5starpool

Hawk Eye wrote:

qotsa=Queens Of The Stone Age

Ah, those I have heard of.

Damn kids and their abbreviations.

HiCloy

BigCityBanker wrote:

I will eat my racingpost if this hound wins the champion hurdle.

Agreed and I certainly wouldn't back him antepost at the price he is now - he's hardly going to shorten

phantom_lord

I don't think I've ever managed to derail a topic so well so unintentionally.

Rnger

techno... music without lyrics is best i think. Prevents you from singing at the table If i think im tilting a bit and i cant leave (in a tournement), air and sigur ros have been doing wonders

peeko

Zero Seven, Jack Johnson, Faithless be good poker music for me. Think a lot of the time it depends on the mood you're in.

Lex

Straddlefor6 unintentially introduced me to the track Verdis Quo from daft punk.
Stick that on after a beat. Sort you right out! :cool:

Glowingmind

I usually listen to instrumental music. Lately i have mostly been listening to Clint Mansell's excellent score for The Fountain (should have gotten an oscar nomination for this), and the soundtrack for Pan's Labyrinth. Mogwai and Dirty 3 are also regular poker soundtracks for me.

patmac

Rnger wrote:

techno... music without lyrics is best i think. Prevents you from singing at the table If i think im tilting a bit and i cant leave (in a tournement), air and sigur ros have been doing wonders

Not too sure if about techno especially if your anything like this fellow:

On a related matter unfortunately I'm still on dial-up and I find the connection slows down when the radio is on, is this possible? In answer to the original question I used to listen to Lyric fm (very good for stopping you going on tilt, but not for the agressive player) until the interference problem, now it's a combination of all my cd's on my pc.

shoutman

I'm going to tryout a genius idea of mine, I feel I have becoming a bit of a nut peddler at the moment (absolute lie but bare with me) so i've decided what I'm going to do is have one playlist on my ipod consisting of eight Johnny Cash albums, then I will put on four "power songs"(songs which regardless of my whole cards I will bluff at every street in an attempt to win the pot.) 1)Christina Aguilareraerea - fighter, 2) Scissor Sisters - I don't feel like dancing 3) No Dout - I'm just a girl and finally the insta push song 4) Barry White - Cant get enough of your love baaabbbbbbbbbe.


So everyone there is your new tell on me, if i'm singing a song that isnt the bif JC then call simple as.... or is it?

phantom_lord

pimp!

Hitman Actual

Glowingmind wrote:

I usually listen to instrumental music. Lately i have mostly been listening to Clint Mansell's excellent score for The Fountain (should have gotten an oscar nomination for this), and the soundtrack for Pan's Labyrinth. Mogwai and Dirty 3 are also regular poker soundtracks for me.

Any suggestions on where to start with Mogwai? (A band I've been meaning to get into for ages).

Instrumental stuff works well for me too. 'Godspeed You Black Emperor' never fails me. Another thing I've taken to doing is recording Donal Dineens "Small Hours" on Today FM, and listening to that: an excellent eclectic mix of laid-back tunes.

RasTa

When playing live or on-line I always listen to Rockabilly Rumbles or the top 20 Rockabilly classics. Also the best of Surf, or Surf Rumbles. Sometimes Booker T, basically lots of instrumental or something uplifting.

Glowingmind

lenny_leonard wrote:

Any suggestions on where to start with Mogwai? (A band I've been meaning to get into for ages).

Instrumental stuff works well for me too. 'Godspeed You Black Emperor' never fails me. Another thing I've taken to doing is recording Donal Dineens "Small Hours" on Today FM, and listening to that: an excellent eclectic mix of laid-back tunes.

For poker playing (their mellower stuff) - i'd recommend 'Come on Die Young' and 'Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait'

'Young Team' is their best though.


Love my GYBE! too, but don't listem to them for playing poker.

One of thier offshoots - A silver mt. zion, is well worth checking out.

LuckyLloyd

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Hitman Actual

Cheers on the Mogwai recomendations lads; 'Come On Die Young' will be getting a spin shortly so.

nineten

young team and rock action - absolute musts for the mogwai..

must concur with the godspeed and silver mt zion reccomendations.. but not for poker.. too absorbing, better off with fly pan am, explosions in the sky or the redneck manifesto..

sixtoo, 1 speed bike, slint - can't go wrong

nothing like a bit of dead kennedys though for a bit of the aggressive...

Lazare

The only time I'll listen to the ipod is in slow clock tournaments and cash, when I feel I need help keeping patient, but other than that I think it's a pretty bad idea.
The amount of info that you're missing out on is huge. People give out so much information talking at the table. How many times have you heard someone telling the table what draw they had or what they mucked preflop and so on.
Basically, people love to inadvertantly tell you exactly how they play, and by stickin Metallica on full blast and drowning the world out, you're missin out big time.


No offence to anyone, but I think most people who listen to music at the table do it because they see it on TV. Same with sunglasses.

phantom_lord

LuckyLloyd wrote:

And to go against PL, I find Dark Side of the Moon to serve a purpose for the first couple of levels of a deepstacked event.

no no no no! you can't listen to and appreciate an exquisite album like that playing poker, ugh, all the background noise and the distraction, and taking off the headphones during it. tut tut. should be ashamed of yourself.

ianmc38

At the moment for me, Sufjan Stevens, Super Furry Animals, Hot Chip, TV on the Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Knife and The Good, The Bad and The Queen are at the top of my playlist...

robinlacey

LuckyLloyd wrote:

Obviously, the rites of spring or Shostakovich is not what you are after in that regard - but some bog standard Mozart or Handel tends to do the trick for me.

shostakovich is great poker music!

i used to always listen to doggystyle by snoop dogg as my final table music,then when i lost the cd i started listening to the waltz from jazz suite number 2 instead,i defy anyone to listen to it at the start of a final table and tell me its not perfect for the occasion...

phantom_lord

robinlacey wrote:

shostakovich is great poker music!

i used to always listen to doggystyle by snoop dogg as my final table music,then when i lost the cd i started listening to the waltz from jazz suite number 2 instead,i defy anyone to listen to it at the start of a final table and tell me its not perfect for the occasion...

do u listen to music when u play online?

redzerdrog

usually johnny cash or christy moore for me. JC is bringing me good look these days so mostly him

robinlacey

yeah always when i'm online,usually rap,minimal techno or jazz or classical

i dont usually listen to music when i'm playing live,tried it a few times but i like to keep track of whats going on at the table

Daithio

Lazare wrote:

The only time I'll listen to the ipod is in slow clock tournaments and cash, when I feel I need help keeping patient, but other than that I think it's a pretty bad idea.
The amount of info that you're missing out on is huge. People give out so much information talking at the table. How many times have you heard someone telling the table what draw they had or what they mucked preflop and so on.
Basically, people love to inadvertantly tell you exactly how they play, and by stickin Metallica on full blast and drowning the world out, you're missin out big time.


No offence to anyone, but I think most people who listen to music at the table do it because they see it on TV. Same with sunglasses.

I've found the same recently. You miss out on a huge amount of info, and you're slightly distracted by the music so you don't even end up following the hands you're not in etc. as much.

I always bring my mp3 player along though, there are some players at the table who you need to block out in order to avoid tilt.

LuckyLloyd

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Goodluck2me

ianmc38 wrote:

At the moment for me, Sufjan Stevens, Super Furry Animals, Hot Chip, TV on the Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Knife and The Good, The Bad and The Queen are at the top of my playlist...

love a bit of Surfjan stevens, paulo nutini recently, Hard-fi and the kooks.

Hitman Actual

Daithio wrote:

I've found the same recently. You miss out on a huge amount of info, and you're slightly distracted by the music so you don't even end up following the hands you're not in etc. as much.

I don't find this a problem at all to be honest. I just keep the volume down fairly low, and usually just have one earphone in. I never miss anything at the table. And the music can have a great settling effect after playing a hand badly, or when you're involved in a big hand.

Anyway (slightly off-topic), some people might as well be deaf and blind at the table, the amount of information they take in. Wearing headphones makes no difference!