Carbon Poker Overview
Carbon Poker was the initial poker room created under the Merge Gaming Network from the old Poker.com management in early 2007. It is a small-medium sized room with around 4,000-6,000 players on a good day. The players of the site are mostly of the lower end skill level playing loosely. The graphics of the room are very crisp and they have a very user-friendly filter, easy enough for anyone to get where they want to go.
Carbon Poker and Iron Duke make up the Merge Poker Network, with Carbon Poker being the flagship site.
Carbon Poker Game Features
Carbon Poker has many games to choose from, both standard and hard to find. They feature Limit Hold’em tables up to $50/100, and Pot Limit and No Limit to $25/50 with most of the action at the NL tables.
Their Omaha tables go all the way to $30/60, but seem to be lacking in player participation. As for 7 card (and Hi/Lo), Razz and 5 card, each offer 8 player tables with all but 5 card offering its highest stakes at $25/50. Carbon also offers a wide assortment of 5 Card Draw, Triple Draw, and Badugi.
The tournaments presented in this room are standard SNG’s, MTT’s, Guaranteed, Freezout, Re-buys, Freerolls, and Turbos. The lions share of site traffic is at the Freerolls and higher stake Guarantee’s. Carbon Poker also offers an array of other game types including Blackjack, Roulette, and Caribbean Stud each giving you a chance to risk $200-500 at a time. Something that sets Carbon aside from most other poker rooms, they now offer both Video Poker and Backgammon.
Carbon Poker Software Features
Perhaps their most eye-catching feature is Carbon Poker’s Software. The graphics are very easy on the eyes with the lobby offering a very interactive tab system to choose your table. A nice feature Carbon Poker gives its players is the option to “Rabbit Hole” the hand in order to show one or both of your cards when you are the last to fold.
The only downfall of this beautiful software is its use of computer RAM. Having more than one table open will cost around 120MB, but this can easily be customized under the Settings tab in the lobby. There is also an automatic setting that will disable animations if your system memory starts to run slowly. This can also be changed in the Settings tab.
Carbon Poker Support
Carbon Poker has a good email support system set up to respond to emails within the hour of which a player will send it. No phone support is available, but their FAQ on their website seems very helpful with the most problems.
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