Music Tagged as a Helpful Poker Winning Tool

Playing music to make you feel good is certainly not a new concept, nor is slapping on a pair of iPod headphones when you sit down to play poker. What may be new to some people, however, is the idea of consciously picking the type of music you listen to in order to produce a specific reaction or event, right down to a particular song. Many pros will use specific genres of music to help them through different parts of a tournament, and winning pro play lists are a hotly requested item. Using a particular song or play list to put yourself in a winning mode is part of a psychological technique called classical conditioning, where you associate one thing to mean another.