Carbon Poker - US Player Policy
Carbon Poker is a website that is really excellent when it comes to players based within the United States. They allow players from the United States to play with their software and their other players provided that people within the United States do not live in a region of the country where online gambling is expressly banned. Such a move has not happened federally, which is why many of the people that live in the United States are given a chance to play poker online at Carbon Poker.
Carbon Poker - Poker Software
The software that is available at Carbon Poker can be best described as being a software package in the minimalist style. This is most certainly true regarding the graphical user interface, which is targeted more towards making sure that people that play at Carbon Poker can understand everything in the lobby and the game room and for that reason has a very clean-looking design. The same is true for the unobtrusive sounds that play.
The actual software package is one of the smaller ones in online poker when you look at the actual amount of room and system resources it takes up. This is very likely because of that streamlined and clean-looking design.
Carbon Poker - Game Play
There are many different variants offered at Carbon Poker. Texas Hold ‘Em, HORSE, Omaha, Omaha/8, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud/8, Razz, Five Card Stud, Five Card Draw, A-5 Lowball, 2-7 Lowball and Badugi are all poker variants that you can find on the website, although with the lower traffic amounts that the website usually gets most of these variants are not fully populated all of the time. As the traffic to Carbon Poker continues to grow (and there is every reason to think that it will), the ring game selection on Carbon Poker will become one of the best in online poker.
Carbon Poker - Tournament Information
In terms of tournaments, Carbon Poker offers both scheduled tournaments and sit and go tournaments in all of the major poker variants (i.e. Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha, Seven Card Stud and all of their combinations and variations). Sit and go filling speed is below average, although the scheduled tournaments can be very juicy if you are able to find a guaranteed prize pool tournament with low registration number.
Carbon Poker - House Rake
The rake schedule that is presented at Carbon Poker is actually one of the most simple rake structures to understand. For every $0.20 that is in the pot, $0.01 is put in the rake. This is the standard 5% rake. The only difference is that the rake varies from $1 to $3 depending on the limit, betting structure and number of players at the table. A full rake schedule can be found on the Carbon Poker website under the rake section of their frequently asked questions document.
Carbon Poker - Bonus
The initial deposit bonus at Carbon Poker is a 100% deposit bonus up to $500. In addition to that, new players at Carbon Poker also receive an entry into a $1000 new player freeroll tournament, which means that regardless of how many people are in the tournament, the prize pool is $1000.
Carbon Poker- Traffic Report
One of the main drawbacks to playing on Carbon Poker is the traffic, which sometimes makes it difficult to find the exact game that you want to play. The peak period of traffic at Carbon Poker is in the evening on the North American continent, where the traffic usually peaks at around 5000 people. The low point of traffic is in the early hours of the morning when the traffic will lower down to around 1000 people, before going back up to around 2000 by the time the afternoon hours arrive.
Carbon Poker- Player Competition
Player competition on Carbon Poker is by no means easy, although there are times when you can find games that are really easy to mop up. Carbon Poker players are either there because they love the website and play there all the time or because they are trying to collect the bonus (i.e. bonus hunters) and both of these types of players typically know quite a bit about poker strategy. Carbon Poker is a great website for you to build up your skills by playing against excellent players, but easy games are not its strong point.
Carbon Poker- Player Options
Carbon Poker allows for all of the different normal player options that you would expect to see in the room. Multi-tabling, player chat, hand history, session statistics and pre-selection buttons are all readily available. In addition to that, Carbon Poker also lets you deal things twice, just like you’ve seen on television with games like High Stakes Poker. You can deal the whole board, the turn and river or just the river twice, which allows you to reduce your variance and therefore allows your stack a greater chance of not having to put up with a large swing.
Carbon Poker- Customer Service
FAQ documents are available on the website.
E-mail support is available through support@carbonpoker.com <mailto:support@carbonpoker.com>.
Live chat support is available through the website and through the Carbon Poker software package.
Other forms of support include ID verification, and a password reset service that you can utilize if you ever happen to forget what your password is.
Carbon Poker- Deposit Options
The following payment options are available:
1) Click2Pay (non-US)
2) NETeller (non-US)
3) Visa
4) MasterCard
5) Fonelinx
6) Moneybookers (non-US)
7) ECO Card
8) Pin Debit (non-US)
9) eWalletXpress (non-US)
10) PIC Club
Carbon Poker- Cashout Policy
The cashout policy at Carbon Poker is similar to the cashout policy that you will see at any other poker website. Any amount that you withdraw that is less than the amount you deposited will be credited back to the method that you used to make the deposit in the first place. Anything above that will allow you to choose the method of withdrawal that you would like to pursue. If there are no acceptable withdrawal methods for you (and not acceptable means that it is impossible for you to use it, rather than you not wanting to use it), then the only other option is for Carbon Poker to write you a check.
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