Carbon Poker Review for 2012

Carbon Poker is the largest room on the Merge Network. This room is actually the old Poker.com and changed to Carbon Poker in 2007. U.S. players are also accepted here. Carbon offers a $750 bonus in addition to cashback rebates equivalent to 6% to 35% in rakeback - which can be paid daily if you choose! This makes Carbon Poker one of the best choices for No Limit cash game players, especially in today's rough online poker climate.

The software here is great and Carbon Poker has just launched a new VIP program in addition to their bonus and rakeback offers. One of the cool features that were recently added is the “Deal it Twice” feature. Along with several nice deposit/withdrawal options combined with 24 hour customer support makes Carbon Poker one of the premier poker rooms in today's bumpy online poker climate (especially if you're in the United States).

Carbon Poker Deposit and Withdrawal Options

Here are the deposit options that Carbon Poker offers: Visa, UseMyWallet, Neteller, Click2Pay, 1-Pay, Moneybookers, EcoCard, InstaDebit, PaySafeCard and Entropay among others.

The most popular option for making a withdrawal at Carbon Poker has been via check which has taken on average about 5 to 10 business days to reach the player. There are other options available to non U.S. players but making withdrawals by check is the best option for U.S. players.  We run over the most popular options below.

Carbon Poker has a number of deposit options for U.S. Players:

- Western Union cash transfer (Min: $100 - Maximum: $1,000)
- Visa Debit/Credit cards (verification process takes only a few minutes to complete - HIGH acceptance rate)

>> Click here for International Deposit Options.

Withdrawal Methods (USA and abroad):

- Check (BEST USA-option - 3 to 6 weeks to received via FedEx)
- Click2Pay (2nd best withdrawal option for USA players)
- Neteller*
- Moneybookers*
- ECO Card*

* denotes INTERNATIONAL withdrawal method only.

Carbon Poker Video Review of Software

Carbon Poker Games

Whatever type of card game you are looking for there is a good chance that Carbon Poker offers this game. We have found the traffic to be low at some of the less popular games but have also found that people will get a group of friends together to play some of the less popular games.

Games offered are Texas Hold'em, Seven-Card Stud Hi and Hi-Lo, Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo, H.O.R.S.E., Razz, Five-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw, A-5 Lowball, 2-7 Lowball and Badugi. In addition to these card games Carbon Poker also offers several side games for when you need a break from the tables.

For all you bored degenerates, the side games offered at Carbon Poker include Euchre, Blackjack, Roulette, Caribbean Stud, Video Poker and Backgammon.  You can play for as low as $1 a hand too and  build from there.

Carbon Poker Ring Games

Ring games at Carbon Poker are where you will find most of the action. You will find the most fish at $.50/$1 through $5/$10 on the No Limit Texas Hold’em and Limit Holdem tables, with  many small and mid-stakes grinders swimming in similar ponds. There are still games to be found at the higher limits but there may be a small wait time involved - especially with a lot of the big grinders taking up space there after sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt disallowed USA customers from playing.

In the near future we believe that the action at the higher limits will increase due to the rising popularity and constant increase in new player sign-ups. You will be able to crush the cash games by sticking to a TAG style game. Due to the fact that poker tracking software isn’t allowed and lower traffic at the lower limits has kept away the sharks for the most part. If you are remotely decent at poker and can play a TAG game you will crush the fish at this site.

Carbon Poker Tournaments

Carbon Poker has several different types of tournaments that they offer. One of the most popular types of tournaments is their satellite tournaments which start at $2. They usually have these going for all major events and run them pretty frequently.

Also when you make your first deposit you will get 14 days entry into the Daily $500 New Depositor Freeroll in addition to a $2.20 Satellite Entry Coupon. Carbon Poker also has a Sunday $50,000 Guaranteed Tournament which is held every Sunday at 5PM GMT.

Carbon does also offer SNG tournaments and also allows you to setup your own SNG tournaments. We found the traffic to be lower for SNG’s on this site,  but they have been openly talking about it on 2+2's forums about getting more of these opened up to accommodate the 45- and 90-man SnG players as well.

Carbon Poker Software

We found the software at Carbon Poker to be one of the best in the online poker industry. This site also just launched a new version of their software in April 2009. There are several new features that have been included in the new software. The ability to change the several of the graphics and get a custom feel at your table is now available.

Two options that were added should help fix problems that multi table players were having before. The first feature that was introduced is mini mode. Mini-mode allows the player to minimize a table while still retaining a readable resolution and will include a minimal interface for the table.

The next option is the poker game grid option which will allow players to specify a grid up to 5x5 tables. This feature also gives you the ability to switch tables from a separate window to a grid window on an individual basis. Also if you are a HU player there is now the option to rematch immediately after the end of the game.

Holdem Manager currently is the only form of card tracking support provided at Carbon Poker.  It is also Mac-compatible with a download-friendly client for all you Mac users.

Carbon Poker Support

Carbon Poker has some of the best support that we have seen. In addition to the standard email support, which has quick response times, they also offer 24 hour live chat. This is a nice addition which makes it possible to get ahold of someone no matter what time it is.