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Online Poker Reviews, Articles, Tournaments, and More |
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Bonus Match:
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100%
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Bonus Max:
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$600
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Deposit Bonus Information:
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- You get $1 for every 100 points
- For each 2000 points you earn, $10 of your bonus is released
- You have 90 days to clear the bonus
To sum it up, this is a solid, fast-clearing bonus.
Last Updated: 02/02/2009
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Carbon Poker
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Carbon Poker
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Carbon Poker
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Carbon Poker
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Established:
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2005
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Active:
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500
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Email:
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support@carbonpoker.com
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Website:
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carbonpoker.com
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Betting:
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High Roller
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Skill Level:
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Professional
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Carbon Poker might be the best online poker room out there. That is saying a lot, but it’s true. No other poker room combines the best poker software with top bonus offers and reliable technical support like Carbon Poker does. The abundance of fish in the waters of Carbon Poker aren’t so bad, either!
Carbon Poker is a skin of Poker.com – a relatively new online poker operation with significant financial backing. Carbon Poker has always accepted American players and has no plans to stop.
Value of Gaming
Carbon Poker takes a lower than average rake: 5-10% on tournament games. Carbon poker also offers a very nice 30% rakeback rate. In terms of deposits and withdrawls, fees are minimum and there is a good selection of options including Click2Pay, Moneybookers and Neteller.
Poker Play
Carbon Poker uses the Merge Gaming software package. This is the best online poker software available. Not only does it provide the standard poker room features, but it has some very innovative and unique features as well.
The graphics for Carbon Poker are not over the top but very practical. This allows the software to run quickly and gives you minimum lag when running multiple tables. You are allowed a small avatar and your country can be displayed. Carbon Poker also has an active chat feature with animated smiley. The fish and donkey graphics which appear over your name when you write ‘fish’ or ‘donkey’ are two of my favorites!
Carbon Poker also has a star system which indicates how active a player is. The more stars the player has beside his or her name the more he or she has played at Carbon Poker. This is a good way to spot the sharks at Carbon Poker – avoid them if possible as there are many newer players who tend to pay off better.
Finally, a few of the play options at Carbon Poker deserve mention. The pot winner is allowed to do a Rabbit Hunt if all of the other players fold. You may also expose just one of your cards while mucking the other. This is the first online poker room where I have seen either of these features.
Technical Support
Carbon Poker provides a quick customer support by email and live chat rooms. You can get help at any time of the day.
Cashouts at Carbon Poker are done within 48 hours, which is about average.
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Chart Definitions
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| Deposit Bonus |
Ratings |
Match
How much free money the poker room will give you as a percentage of your first total deposit.
Max
The maximum amout of bonus money you can receive with your first deposit.
Active
The average number of active cash players the poker room has at any one time.
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Software
This is the quality of the program on which the poker program is run. This rating should consider the understandability and usability of the software, plus how quick and helpful their support services are.
Players
A rating of how many players there are, and how easy it is to beat the typical low-limit holdem game against the average one.
Payout
This is a rating of how quickly the poker site processes
withdrawal requests and the overall quality of bonuses rewarded.
Tournys
This rating should consider the frequency, relative value, and organization of both sit-and-go and special tournaments held.
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