Listening to music while playing poker can really benefit your game. It can balance your mood, act as a neat deterrent to tilt and provides a terrific soundtrack to some of your best moments at the felt.

Which poker songs should you add to your current playlist? We’ve compiled ten absolute essentials of the genre, and there’s not a Lady Gaga song in sight.

Kenny Rogers – The Gambler

It would be impossible to look at songs you should add to a poker playlist without kicking off with this bona fide classic. Kenny Rogers was quite a storyteller in this song all about meeting an old poker player on a train ‘bound for nowhere’ and getting bluffed out of his last shot of whiskey.