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Carbon Poker Review |
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| Summary, Download & Bonus |
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Overall (7.5)
Software (8)
Bonuses (7)
Promotions (8)
Players (9)
Variety (9)
Site Traffic (7)
Cash Games (7)
Support (3)
Site Security (9)
Banking (8) |
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BEST FEATURES
Flash based software
Blackjack software built-in
Backgammon Software built-in
Daily Freerolls
Royal Flush bonus of 100X Big Blind
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Positives
Very soft competition
Awesome games variety
High traffic growth |
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CONS
US Players not permitted
Stakes categories not available
Texas Hold’em and Omaha only
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Summary (7.5)
Carbon Poker is a newer addition to the Merge Gaming Network and grew from what was Poker.com. The Merge Gaming Network, in its final stages of migration, is a rapidly expanding network with several online poker sites and is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing groups of online gaming sites. Unlike its’ predecessor, Poker.com, Carbon Poker offers several different variants of poker.
Software (8)
As a member of the Merge Gaming Network, you will certainly see great software on carbon poker. With clean and clear graphics the functionality here is above average. Players have the ability to add different tags to their opponents such as ‘sharks’ or ‘fish’. There are also added features in the lobby for players to see the average pot size, percentage of hands playing, and the hands player per hour. The only limiting feature here is that you can only view a single window, but you can tab though other games. That format can be bad in that players may mistakenly make a call on the wrong table.
Bonuses (7)
Together with Carbon Poker, we are offering an exclusive Carbon Poker Bonus Code that gives players 300% bonus on their first deposit up to $300 and a ticket the Carbon Pokers’ $1000 Freeroll Game. The refer-a-friend program is good for another $25 for every depositing player that is referred.
Promotions (8)
Carbon Poker has several promotions currently running. In the past they have held satellite tournaments to the World Series of Poker. Carbon Poker held a $25,000 Freeroll game on July 7, 2007 to celebrate Independence Day. They are also offering a ‘Summer Champs’ tournament that will include a $15,000 Aussie Millions Players Pack. Prize packages to both the WPT and WSOP will also be given away. Carbon Poker and PinDebit are running an additional special promotion where players get 10% bonus up to $100 when they use PinDebit. If you would like to participate in that promotion and don’t currently have PinDebit you can create an account through Carbon Poker’s software.
Players (9)
Generally speaking, the players here are quite soft. This site could possibly be the best online poker room to make a profit off of that soft competition. Players here are also remarkably friendly, haven’t seen anyone on tilt yet, with the exception of myself.
Variety (9)
While its predecessor only offered a few games, Carbon Poker has an awesome variety of games. From the typical games like Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo to the harder to find games like Razz, 5-Card Stud, Ace to 5 Lowball, Badugi, Blackjack, and Backgammon. Carbon Poker has quite a fee freerolls everyday, including $50,000 freeroll on the last Sunday of the month, a $10,000 freeroll every Sunday, $2000 freeroll every Saturday, and $1000 freerolls every Monday through Friday, a $500 Freeroll for New Depositing Players, $50 freerolls every 2 hours, $50 New Player freerolls every 3 hours. Please remember to check CarbonPoker.com terms and conditions for freeroll eligibility requirements. The table limits on the game varieties vary from game to game with some limits starting as low as $.01/.02 for Stud, $.02/.04 for Texas Hold’em and go up to $50/100. Your limits for Blackjack are $1 minimum and $50 maximum per hand. Other tables available are 6 and 10 person sit-n-go tables and Heads-up games.
Site Traffic (7)
With such heavy promotions on the freerolls at Carbon Poker, and the quite generous payouts on those, the traffic here is increasing steadily. Generally you will see about 4,000 players online with the majority of those players involved in tournament play.
Cash Games (7)
Since the start of the promotions for WSOP, WPT and APPT satellites, the amount of players seated at the ring tables here has dropped a bit. But the traffic at the tournaments has increased steadily as people are trying to win their seats to the all of those events and the Aussie Millions, with an average of about 3,000 players seated.
Support (3)
Ugh! The only support option at Carbon Poker right now is email support. That’s right, now live support and no phone support. Scores in this area would greatly improve if more support options were offered. The only upside to the email support is that the response time for emails is generally about an hour, twice as long though as Carbon Poker claims the emails will be responded to. I feel that once they begin to offer telephone support and/or in-game support these issues of timely customer responses will be resolved.
Site Security (9)
No issues of site security have been reported here.
Banking (8)
Several options are available here for both deposits and cashouts. You can use any of the following methods to make your deposit: Click2Pay, Neteller (in select countries only), ePassporte, MoneyBookers, my Citadel, Visa or Matercard, EcoCard, eWalletXpress, Fonelinx and also the newest addition, Pindebit. The withdrawl methods are generally the same except for the option to withdrawl by Check for US and Canandian players. I have made just one withdrawl from Carbon Poker by Check and if memory serves me correctly I received the check about 7 days after I made my cashout request.
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