Carbon Poker - Review
Carbon Poker accepts players from the United States.
Game Selection, Limits and Rakes
Carbon Poker has a large game variety. You can find Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, Five-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw, Ace-to-Five Lowball, Deuce-to-Seven Lowball and Badugi on the site. The site also offers mixed games such as H.O.R.S.E.
Stakes start at the micro limits of 1¢/2¢ on up to $50/$100 for most of the games, and Carbon Poker takes a 5% rake from each real-money hand with a maximum of $3 taken.
Tournaments
Carbon Poker hosts an assortment of tournaments, from sit&gos and daily tournaments to satellites and freerolls. The freerolls are perhaps the best feature the site has to offer. It hosts free tournaments for both depositing and free-money players. There's a monthly $50,000 freeroll and a $500 daily free tournament for new players.
The site also runs shootout and bounty format tournaments, and players can find live events satellites to events such as the World Series of Poker the Aussie Millions and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour.
Rewards
At Carbon Poker, you earn points for every raked hand you play in a ring game and for playing in certain tournaments. In the VIP Program, the points can be used for sign-up bonuses, reload bonuses and tournament entry coupons. Carbon Poker also has a VIP Store with merchandise such as iPods, poker sets and DVDs you can purchase with your points.
Traffic
Carbon Poker has great features for players but still struggles with traffic. Even during its peak hours it can be hard to find a game in the higher stakes, and the best games are usually int he lower to mid stakes. Even though the site offers a wide variety of poker to play, mainly the traffic can be found in the Texas Hold'em games. Traffic has improves since the site joined the Merge Network and it is seeing a steady improvement in traffic.
Software
Carbon Poker is a part of the Merge Gaming network and uses their software. The software offers great graphics as well as basic functions such as statistics, hand history, mini-view funtion and more. Its special features include "rabbit hunting" and the ability to expose one card.
A fun aspect to the software is its animated smilies that can be used in chat.
One disappointing aspect of the software is that you can't export the hand history.
Support
Customer service is on part with some of the best in the poker industry at Carbon Poker. Players can get support through e-mail or live chat 24/7. Carbon Poker is quick to respond to e-mails and its representatives are friendly and knowledgeable.
Pros
- Easy-to-use mini-table function
- Accepts U.S. players
- Top of the line graphics
- Great multi-table tournament leaderboard system
Cons
- Low traffic at the high-stakes tables
- No Mac download