Poker Room Review
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Carbon Poker is temporarily not accepting players from the USA.
Carbon Poker is a medium-sized room with about 5,000-plus players at peak hours. This is actually the re-birth of the site which first launched in February 2005 under the name Poker.com. In early 2007, the old Poker.com management created the Merge Gaming Network, of which CarbonPoker.com was the first member.
The software platform is excellent...the action is fast and the lobby has great filters which allow you to easily find what you are looking for. The overall level of skill is pretty low, with many reckless players who buy in for short stacks. It is not uncommon to see people all-in pre-flop with less than premium hands (such as AJ or KT) and sometimes not even suited! Players represent countries from all over the world, and each player is able to select or upload a custom icon to be displayed next to their name at the table.
Geographic Restrictions
Carbon Poker do not accept traffic from any of the following countries/regions: Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syria and Yugoslavia. Unfortunately untill these terms are in place players from the above territories will not be able to participate in the Carbon Poker promotions offered by PlayingPokerNow.
Game Action
The lion’s share of the action centers on the Texas Hold’em tables, especially at the lower stakes. There are usually several table options for whatever type of game you want to play, right up to $2/$4 and higher games. At the higher stakes the action is very scarce.
The Omaha action is hard to come by at any level of stakes. Carbon Poker offers a range from $0.10/$0.20 up to $1/2 for Omaha Hi and up to $3/6 for Hi/Lo.
The 7 Card Stud traffic is about the same as Omaha’s – virtually non existent. The stakes cover from $0.10/0.20 up to $2/4 for both Hi and Hi/Lo. If you are looking for 7 Card action you really should look elsewhere. As for the rest of the games that Carbon Poker offers, the only one worth mentioning is the 5 Card Draw, with 2-3 tables at the lowest stakes going just about any time of day. Triple Draw, Badugi etc. practically do not get any traffic whatsoever.
Carbon Poker has the standard tournament line up of Sit and Go’s, Multi-Table tournaments, Guaranteed, Freezout, Re-buys, and Turbos. They get about as much action as one would expect from a site this size.
Software and Features
Where Carbon Poker really shines is in the abundance of features offered by their slick software. They offer many features not found at other sites, such as the ability to “rabbit hole” the remainder of the hand, the ability to show one or both cards when you are the last to fold or are mucking your hand uncalled, and a very flexible and easy to use note-taking system that allows icons to be assigned to players that remain visible on the table at all times.
The Carbon Poker software is configured to use as default a tabbed system that is extremely poor for multi-tabling: it opens each table you select in a tab in the main window, and when it's your turn the tab blinks and will make a sound, but will not open, so it is very easy to miss your turn and be sat out. In order to fix this you must go into the 'Settings' menu in the lobby and go to the 'Window' tab. Selecting the 'New Window' option will open every table into a new window, like pretty much every other poker software. It is confusing as to why they have chosen the tab system as the default.
The lobby displays the number of hands per hour, average pot size and players per flop, vital statistics when choosing a table to sit at. The main lobby at Carbon Poker is very nicely laid out, so players can find the games they are looking for, and the filters and tabs are extremely well organized. They do not have any pop-ups or distracting flash graphics to clutter up the main lobby board. Another nice feature is that you can choose to hide both play money games and full tables from the main lobby board.
The tables are very well laid out and display all the information you expect. The current pot size, along with the total sum of all pending bets is displayed, as well as the amount of rake taken. Players’ names, stacks, and bets are all clearly visible and easy to identify. The location of the button can be confusing sometimes in full ring games, due to the closeness of the seats.
Carbon Poker is also a freeroll-lover’s dream. For those new to the site, there is a $500 new depositor freeroll every day for 14 days. Everybody is eligible for the $50 freerolls, which run four times daily. Additionally, there are $1,000 freerolls every weekday, a $2,000 freeroll every Saturday, a $10,000 freeroll every Sunday except for the last Sunday of the month, and a $50,000 freeroll on the last Sunday of every month. Players can earn a seat into each by earning enough comp points over certain periods of time. For regular players, this is not hard to do at all.
Carbon Poker - Behind the Scenes
Carbon Poker is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Board, a world leading gaming regulatory body in based in Canada. They use a random number generator to ensure that the 52 card deck is impossible to predict and 128-bit data encryption to ensure you data privacy.
The email support at Carbon Poker is good with accurate, helpful and quick responses usually sent within one hour. They also offer live chat support, but no phone support is available at this time.
Review credit: pokersource.com
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Games
No Limit Texas Hold’em
Limit Texas Hold’em
Pot Limit Texas Hold’em
Omaha
Seven Card Stud
Five Card Draw
Razz
Triple Draw
Badugi
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This is my favorite poker room too, diamondbaby. I've been playing there for the past couple of months and what I really like is the software fatures. You can really tell they have put some effort in it. Every button is exactly where it has to be - all in, fold, call, raise, etc. The poker players are also of decent quantity and quality. So far I've doubled by bankroll with very little losses. I guess that's just me.. being not too aggressive but patient and always calculating the odds. | 11.01.2011, 11:16 in: Re: Carbon Poker Experience |
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Hi I am diamondbaby I have been playing on carbon poker for a few years now and really enjoy playing on that site which it is my favorite. I have had my ups and downs winning and losing in poker tourneys as well as table games. I love playing at tables most of all. Carbon has had many changes throughtout the years and seen it all. Well thats about it see you all at the tables and happy to be part of this forum!!!
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