Do you ever listen to music while playing online?

Cianos

I find it distracts me too much. Sometimes I get bored and put on some music. But I usually just turn it off after a few songs! I multi-table though, so I guess if I didnt it wouldnt be so bad. I remember reading that Erik123 won the world online poker championship (or something like that - some big event at the time) while watching about 5 episodes of the Sopranos!

Cianos

Imposter wrote:

Oh look .... a "New Thread" button .... I wonder what this does!

FYI I was testing my Sig! Then I thought of an interesting topic, so mbleh!

Imposter

I was just kidding, dammit!

There's a thread on iPods here discussing something similar too.

Fathead

all the time, i play much better if the tunes are on and the lights are off (could be just the romantic in me ) helps me concentrate .

Yup, Kenny Rodgers all the way.

karlh

i find really sadistic porn in the background helps maintain a more aggressive style.

as kencleary says "take it bit*h!"

Karl, My back still hurts!

karlh

jesus.

anyways, back on topic. i want top 3s!

1. Mo' Money Mo' Problems - Ma$e
2. Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
3. Ace of Spades by Motorhead (sudden blast when i get the card)

/edit 4. 'Maidens of the Whip Vol.5' and 'All Holes Filled 12'

lordofthetilt

I think you gotta choose the music well, poker music.

The Pogues worked very well during some online omaha on the weekend(although I was getting monsters). I'm a fan of Johnny Cash while playing poker as well.

Towards the latter stages of a tournament you have to choose some crazy all-in style music like some Sergio Leone western style soundtrack. Beware though, all the trumpets kicking in DOES NOT!!! mean that you are obliged to call.

AmarilloFats

Papa Smut wrote:

Yup, Kenny Rodgers all the way.

Kenny Rodgers!! I thought he abstained.

Juan Pablo

lordofthetilt wrote:

Sergio Leone western style soundtrack.

You mean the great Ennio Morricone. Anything by Ennio is No 1 poker music imho. PL Omaha and the Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu sountrack work wonderfully well together! After that give me a bit of the Omen soundtrack (better for home game atmosphere though) or some nice chillout d&b, anything off Bukem's Good Looking label fits the bill for me.

Vamos

Caught By The River - Doves
Always soothes the bad beat pain.

BrendanB

At what point do we call oversize and intrusive signatures obnoxious and out of order (not to mention pimping). Is there a size limit? If yes can we make it smaller?

nesf

BrendanB wrote:

At what point do we call oversize and intrusive signatures obnoxious and out of order (not to mention pimping). Is there a size limit? If yes can we make it smaller?

I don't know, I'll prob have an oversized Warpcon sig when I get around to making one, but since it's an event that raises circa 20K for charity through various means (including a charity poker tourney) I would hope people wouldn't have a problem with it.

Now that said,

I listen to upbeat bouncy music while playing online and am generally making use of my dual monitor setup to do some browsing or watch a film. I play multiple tables on automatic (cash games not tournies) and turn over a bit of profit while doing it. If i'm in a tourney I generally have music on and am playing another cash game simultaneously, but I wouldn't be surfing or watching a film, since tourney's require me to think more.

But playing low stakes no-limit or limit can be profitable played on automatic. If I decided to play a higher stake game i'd generally just play one table and concentrate on it, but theres no point in concentrating heavily in a 1/2 game since most of the players on the table won't act in a predictable fashion since they have no idea of the stats or relative hand strenghts.

Cianos

BrendanB wrote:

At what point do we call oversize and intrusive signatures obnoxious and out of order (not to mention pimping). Is there a size limit? If yes can we make it smaller?

Is this the general consensus? Because I dont want to have said effect. I actually thought it may be a bit big, but others have avatars around the same size as mine, so I thought why not.

BrendanB

Got pointed towards the hide signature option in the control panel, so I no longer mind

Cianos

Heh heh. Yeah but I dont want to be pissin people off. Even though I dont really see why it would, but since you brought it up I'm obviously interested in what others think.

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Korn. The attitude helps me focus on kickin' some ass.

john_g83

good call on korn Iceman, a bit of aggressive bagpiping really gets the blood running.
try also: Three Days Grace, Breaking Banjamen, Sevendust and crossfade