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  Casinos are loud places. There is nowhere to escape the sound of clanking coins, sirens, lights, and the excited chatter of strangers. Regardless though, the general activity of a casino can be a huge distraction. This can be doubly so for players who learned the game by playing online in the peace and quiet of their home.



  As any good poker player knows, distractions and poker go together about as well as Toddlers and Smith and Wesson products. So how does a player filter out the distractions so that they can best concentrate on what they are doing with the cards?



  Let's start off with what not to do. Alcohol is cheap and easily accessible in most casinos. In fact there are usually well built young ladies walking around in costumes that cover about as much as gum wrapper offering to get you your favorite adult beverage. And the idea of having a few drinks just to take the edge off is a complete myth. Putting alcohol in your system in order to perform better is like injecting Dr. Pepper into your veins instead of steroids to improve your athletic performance. All a good stiff drink will do is screw with your decision making abilities.



  The best friend of a number of high profile players is their iPod. They filter out the distractions with a steady diet of Aerosmith, Tool, Man-o-War, Weird Al Yankovic, or whatever else strikes their particular fancy.



  It may not be proven that music soothes the savage beat, but it can block out the background distractions like nothing else.