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DyessMan89
09-20-2005, 08:25 PM
Will this improve focus? I would think that listening to com, mellow music might help you stay "in that zone" so to speak. Might keep you more relaxed. Anyone try this, or do it regularly?
mike4bmp
09-20-2005, 11:06 PM
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Will this improve focus? I would think that listening to com, mellow music might help you stay "in that zone" so to speak. Might keep you more relaxed. Anyone try this, or do it regularly?

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Yeah...but I do it mainly to be anti-social at the table...I hate it when some middle aged woman starts babbling to me about unimportant sh--.
Xhad
09-20-2005, 11:52 PM
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Will this improve focus? I would think that listening to com, mellow music might help you stay "in that zone" so to speak. Might keep you more relaxed. Anyone try this, or do it regularly?

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I sometimes find listening to heavy techno/metal music helps me get psyched up for a session so I concentrate harder. Other times, it's a bad idea because I get too psyched up and start playing over-aggressive. It's probably very player dependent in any case.
MyTurn2Raise
09-21-2005, 12:06 AM
I listen to Stephen Lynch...it puts me in a great mood, plus the rest of the table thinks I'm a moron.
jzpiano14
09-21-2005, 12:58 AM
Online I have music going all the time, live almost never
A_Junglen
09-21-2005, 01:05 AM
Online I practically need music playing through my headphones at all times.

Live, only sometimes. Mainly tournaments, never cash.
blaze666
09-21-2005, 02:26 AM
im usually listening to something like blackadder, or other radio shows in the background. it helps a lot. somtimes i'll have a riocky gervais live DVD in or something like that. music does nothing either way for me.
MyTurn2Raise
09-21-2005, 02:49 AM
oh yeah...I also listen to Loveline---helps me analyze my opponents
09-21-2005, 02:53 AM
I can listen to music and 1 table, but anything more than that and my play starts to worsen lots.
TheHip41
09-21-2005, 03:56 AM
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Will this improve focus? I would think that listening to com, mellow music might help you stay "in that zone" so to speak. Might keep you more relaxed. Anyone try this, or do it regularly?

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I have Comcast Cable here in MI.

I turn on either Jazz, Modern Classical, or Old School Classical on the Comcast box. It's like channel 430 here.

Or, I listen to my Ipod. I switch it up depending on what I want.
DyessMan89
09-21-2005, 02:23 PM
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oh yeah...I also listen to Loveline---helps me analyze my opponents

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NH
ebaudry
09-30-2005, 02:41 AM
I listen to loud techno to increase the "I'm a bad-ass flying my poker cockpit" sensation. But I'm a stimulus junky so this matches my adrenaline needs. Or something.
bryan4967
09-30-2005, 11:14 PM
Classical or jazz, specifically Miles Davis.
Aytumious
10-01-2005, 03:22 AM
Rhapsody is essential to the online poker player.
10-01-2005, 12:02 PM
Listening to Mozart music or Baroque music (Bach, Vivaldi, Handel) will make you a superior poker player. Really.

The Mozart Effect (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0380974185/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3385981-8155011#reader-link)