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	Overview
Carbon Poker was launched in February 2007. It was actually established in 2005 but launched as a new poker brand in 2007, and it is powered by the Merge Gaming Network. It was originally established around the previous player base of Poker.com. Carbon Poker operates under a gaming license from the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. The games offered at Carbon Poker are absolutely on the loose side, with many new players taking their first try at online poker. Carbon Poker has been relatively growing because of its great diversity of games, fast and reliable software, remarkable multi-table-tournament leader board program, several live event satellites with smaller fields, a variety of deposit and withdrawal options and graphics that are superior and top of the industry. Because US players are welcome here, no wonder there is already a good player volume initially on Carbon Poker and it is gradually increasing day by day.
	Software
Carbon Poker is utilizing the perfected software of the Poker.com Network. It is usually unknown to the average poker player, but in spite of its lack of status, this poker room is indeed based on the highest class of software you can imagine. It uses Macromedia Flash which allows you to still have a quality image even when resizing down your table screen. Even though the table itself is not as customizable as some other sites, there are still many features at Carbon Poker that are good. You can even play for eight tables at once when preferring to play multiple tables. One of the highlights of this poker site is its poker client. The images are vector based and this result in clear graphics even when playing multiple tables with minimized windows. Carbon Poker’s statistics functions are good and satisfactory. Being unable to export hand histories to the hard disk may prove disagreeable to some players, but the replay feature makes up for it, so you will have no problem examining your played hands. There are many unique features of Carbon Poker’s software that are not seen in any poker room. Some features are: The Rabbit Hunt (this reveals what cards would have come out if everyone did not fold), Accolades and Trophies (Carbon Poker will place a special trophy on your player accolade for everyone to see whenever you win a special tournament), Expose 1 Card (you have the choice of only showing 1 hole card when you fold), and Poker Expressions (you can have an option of a donkey animation appearing on the table by just typing “donkey” into the chat box).
	Traffic
Carbon Poker has a large player base which constantly grows because of the awesome options and promotions they offer to both new and frequent players. Because of the growing fame of the whole Merge Gaming Network, the presence of active poker players is growing day by day. Real money player stats as of January 2009 up to March 2009 have shown that there are up to 1,200 ring game players and up to 8,000 tournament players during peak hours. Most of the traffic is held in Texas Hold ‘Em but Omaha and other games are getting fully crowded at times too. A large number of players usually play ring games, although the constant freerolls do entice a lot of new and frequent players to the tournament events as well.
	Opponents
The competition at Carbon Poker is usually very soft. Always present at the freerolls are typically the poker beginners and small-stacked players and then in the end they attend the poker tables and lose cash. The average flop percentages are generally 10% higher than most sites. The players at Carbon Poker are easy to beat. You can win a lot of money with a straightforward strategy. If you are looking for fish, go to the low and micro limit stakes even though you can still find very loose games at the higher levels as well.
	Tournaments
Carbon Poker offers tournaments with guaranteed cash prizes varying up to a few thousand dollars. There are lots of MTTs and Sit-N-Go’s, live event satellites with smaller fields, giveaways, many special tournament events, and a lot of profitable and exciting freerolls that will surely make your poker play at Carbon Poker enjoyable. Carbon Poker offers many daily guaranteed tournaments. The prize pools go up to $15,000
	Cashgames
Carbon Poker is perhaps the best poker room when it comes to a variety of games. Offered games at Carbon Poker are the Texas Hold ‘Em (Limit, Pot and No-Limit), Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo (Limit, Pot and No-Limit), Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, Five Card Stud, Five Card Draw, Triple Draw (A-5 Lowball and 2-7 Lowball) and Badugi (a variety of Chinese poker). H.O.R.S.E., Blackjack, Razz, Video Poker, Roulette and Backgammon are also available if you get tired from the other poker games. Even with a vast selection of games, most of the action is still found in the No-Limit Hold ‘Em games and mostly at the lower limits.
	Bonuses/Loyalty
Carbon Poker offers a very nice VIP/loyalty program. It's a tier based loyalty scheme, having five different tiers; Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Ether. As a loyalty player you can enjoy many special treats such as having a VIP Host, receiving Birthday Gifts and special Bonus Offers. Depending on which tier you belong to, the cashback (rakeback) and point conversion will differ. If you have reached the tier of Ether, you will have 35% rakeback and be able to exchange 5,000 points and receive a very generous $60.
	Transactions
The minimum deposit is $10. The following can be used for deposit: Visa, Mastercard, Moneybookers (Skrill), Neteller, Cash Transfer (Western Union), EcoCard, Instadebit, Ukash, ClickandBuy and Click2Pay. The following can be used for withdrawal: Neteller, Moneybookers (Skrill), EcoCard, Check withdrawal, Instadebit and UKash.
	Support
As for now, the only support of Carbon Poker you will get is through e-mail. Response time is fast and accurate, within a few hours at most.Carbon Poker also offers a very detailed FAQ page where you will be able to solve many of your queries yourself.

User Reviews

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bombsapphire	Friday, April 20, 2012
Carbon poker is one of Merge network skin. relieable, userfriendly software, exciting actions with US players. I especially love to play their guaranteed rebuy/addon tournament like $3000, $5000. So often held, fun actions, not so many players. That's exciting games and you would have a nice chance to make a good ammount of money. If you look their tourney tab carefully, you will find nice chances to join the tourney of which the participation fees are not over the total guaranteed prize amount. Enjoy EV+ games!
ProBucurest1	Thursday, April 12, 2012
Carbon Poker is the new version of the Old Poker, Merge Gaming Network. Carbon Poker offers a stable, highly functional software platform with a full range of poker games. The graphics are nice while the Lobby is easy for even the newbie to navigate. Carbon Poker is well suited for multi-tabling, as a new online poker room, the player traffic is small, but the Merge Gaming Network’s shared player base, combined with US poker players.A very popular $20k tournament runs every Sunday with a buy-in of $60. Deposits/Withdrawals (minimum $10): Credit Card, NETeller, Click2Pay, EcoCard, Fonelinx, Moneybookers, eWalletXpress and Pindebit.(minimum $25): NETeller, Click2Pay, EcoCard, Moneybookers, eWalletXpress, Pindebit and Check. Carbon Poker has a good and steady platform.
gymmy999	Friday, April 06, 2012
I hve firt signed up yesterday through BRM. I filled the registration form I have logged in and I was wellcomed by their staff telling me that I ' m not elegible for the bonus ) no problem that.. Anyway i got an email from them telling me that I haven't registered my home address well! What?then i went to the chat an after an hour they told me my address has been updated but they cannot give me any info regardin this!!! Are you kidding me?online support really sucks I spoke fr about an hour with them o have closed my account personally I don' t trust them!!! They cannot give yoh inform about anything regaring your data...they really suck. The platform even if is similar to cake poker or mansion poker is not so reliable! Had 3 connectiity issued and got diaconnected while on chat! There are not so many player as they say more then 17k online!! No you can notice this by watchin their tables and tournaments.it is an odd room BRM no offence
cononda	Wednesday, March 28, 2012
I dont like it, to be honest, i find it may be a little untrustworthy for new players, you have this very sofisticated players which plays with pot odds and practical math everywere, and for some people that might be a little bit disturbing, i mean, i dont like playing that much with maths because im not as good as Daniel Negreanu or those which act by math and instincts, but i do manage and i made earnings with poker luckiily, you should starty in a more frendlier site and then move onto carbon poker
issi1976	Thursday, February 23, 2012
well i did a review before for carbon poker but i want to come back on that one its realy hard to believe what i have seen there playing on the table's and everything is okay but i have the strong feeling people from staff are playing in the tournaments too was sitting on a table mtt tournament build my stack solid just like my opponent who's was doing well also but after a while i noticed that what ever he got he is going every time allin whit other players and he won every time whit cards like 2 7 - 3 9 - 5 10 and i tought i whait my chance and i am going to get this guy ahaha wrong from me after a while it was my turn to leave the tournament i got aces Ac Ah and he was sitting after the big blind and he called again allin everybody folds but i can't fold the aces he has 8c 6d and wtf did you think came on the table 4 diamonds after each other no problem whit losing thats not the isseu but i asked him if he is from the staff of carbon and my chat window got emediatly shut down very fast for i member who does not swore or did something else wrong only for asking if somebody is from staff ?????
sadamman	Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Carbon poker is a really good place to begin a poker career, with LOADS of fish but a few really good players also. Carbon poker is part of the merge gaming network of poker sites, and in a way is similar to titan poker on the i poker network, but with better freerolls. It has a wide variety of limits with alot of microstakes table if you havent got a big bankroll. Carbon poker is also one of the only site i know of with a rabbit option. A rabbit option is if a hand is folded, select this option and you can still see what comes down
ailinan	Thursday, January 12, 2012
it is very good!i like it,i will play in this pokerroom,if i win much money,i will be very happy,now,i will try!!!!!
Arithmajik	Saturday, December 17, 2011
So far so good at Carbon. I'm up a few bucks and they currently have an insanely good instadebit offer for all those Canadains out there. They have DoN's that have good traffic, I haven't had to wait more than 2 minutes to have a screen full of games going at the $5 stake level. As for competition, it's the usual mix. Some regulars, some fish, and some average joe's but if I had to compare I'd say the DoN's on the iPoker Network are looser and easier to place in. Also they have a neat promo on right now: If you rake $25 in a week (easy to do) you get into a $10900 value freeroll with about 1500 entrants, win!
Macubaas	Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Carbon poker is the best site from the merge network if you ask me, plus it's one of the few places where we can still play with players from united states. The promotions on the site are pretty good but i must admit there were better when they had the option to get a rakeback deal, nowadays they have a vip system for the players. As for the traffic is pretty good and it has covered the majority of stakes starting with 1/2 cents so it's accesible to everyone for that matter. My only complain is the software, it could be a bit better but it works and that counts the most
dusicahetzel	Sunday, July 24, 2011
i heard a few years ago for Carbon poker and at this time i was thinking that it is a good poker room. unfortunately,from then they didnt make some improvement, and now are average poker room or below average for experience users. Software is good, but not the best. easy to use, and found what you want. They accept USA players, and have good number of players, but must attract much more. Dont have no deposit offer or deposit bonuses. Rakeback is solid. They have a lot of tournaments. With some improvements and updates, they can be a very good poker room
ringer2142	Thursday, February 17, 2011
Okay so, so far I have reviewed FTP, Stars, UB, and AP, is now time to review Carbon Poker. Again I would perfer FTP or Stars and maybe AP here but Carbon Poker is pretty good. The layout is decent and passable with a pretty normal look, way better than UB IMO. Only fallback here? I think the tournaments and SNGs suck. I mean I would play a tournament from here time to time but not on a regular basis. The Cash Games here are pretty good including PLO, and last thing that have Shannon Elizabeth as a sponsored pro, so that a 10 in my book. Software: 8.5 Layout: 7 Cash Games: 8 SNGs: 4 Tournaments: 4.5 Support: 9 Promotions and Bonuses: 10
CMJ1102	Saturday, February 05, 2011
This site is not even in my top 20.. It does allow US players but bonus's are bad, players are rare and tournaments of quality suck. Satilites suck and there is not incentive for staying and playing for any long time frame. What this site needs is more affiliation with big events for live entries. If you like low stakes and slow action this is for you, but it is the hardest US site to get started on. and even if you do why would you stay? Are there points to keep you going, not a good enough structure to maintain a good relationship with them Software: 5 / 10 Opponents: 5 / 10 Tournament: 4/10 Cashgames: 6 / 10 Bonuses / Loyalty: 1 / 10 Transactions: 1 / 10 Support: 3 / 10
jovicakralj	Monday, December 20, 2010
I wasn't making any deposit on this site but I won freeroll there and had some money to test it. Software is interesting, you can choose youre own image and smilies are entertaining!!! They have nice freerolls and they have 4 first deposit tournaments. Also they have some nice microstake tournaments like bounty etc. BUT, when I wanted to deposit and enter their bonus code there was error. When I asked them why I have error they told me that my country cant use that bonus code??!!! That is not fair. Money from my country have less value then money from other countries? That is just bad. So I wasnt deposit and that was bad business for them...
MOAR	Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Carbon Poker is a part of the merge poker network, and it unfortunately doesn't have very much traffic. I'd not recommend it, if you only play MTT sngs, though. They take way too long to fill up, but if you're just looking to play cash games, then it's definitely an ok choice, considering they have rakeback, which is paid daily. The software is a bit ugly, but that shouldn't matter much. Poker is about winning money, not about playing on a room that looks good. If you start with $0, it's definitely a good place to play freerolls, considering the little amount of people registering! Overall I will give it 7/10.
lecorbu	Friday, March 05, 2010
good place to play, freerolls with fewer players and a simple lobby compared to other sites. the only thing worst is little traffic compared to other sites like fulltilt or PS. But it is a good option to take the initial $ 35.
shokaku	Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Carbon Poker is the biggest room of the Merge Poker network. So most what is written about Big Bet Poker describes the games at Carbon Poker too. Software is a bit on the slow side, but gets the job done. Traffic is a bit low on all but the Hold'em games. The clientsoftware offers mini tables. So players, who like to play a lot of tables at one time, can put a lot of tables on their screen. The Merge network was among the first to offer the Badugi form of poker. A lot of the players there come from the US, so peak hours are during night time in europe.

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