When you and your friends are about to sit down for a quick game of poker or online poker some evening, do you play some tunes in the background to get the mood right? If you do, what kinds are the best kinds of music? Is there a definitive “poker music?” If so, what does it sound like?

If the game is being played in a German pokern room, the music could be something staccato but heavy, like an old school Ramstein record. Those big angry beats would get any poker player’s blood boiling enough to play really aggressively, and would ensure big pots.

But maybe heavy metal is too much for your virgin ears to handle. If that’s the case, maybe you’re in an online poker room, and you want to keep things modern and cool. Maybe some top 40 songs, just to serve as something familiar to keep your personality in check should the anonymity of online rooms get you a little ahead of yourself.

Or maybe you’d like some French hip hop, which is huge in the poker en ligne rooms of Paris and Versailles across the pond in France. There’s an immense amount of crossover taking place in the Frnech hip hop and online poker room worlds, and it would not be surprising to anyone to hear those beats. Some of them are even worth listening to away from the poker table!