Carbon poker was born after poker.com couldnt accept US players. It has established itself as a trustworthy poker room with a steadily growing traffic flow. Introduction of added games like Blackjackand Backgammon have attracted more players aswell. The software comes from the Merge Network and as such is safe and secure, updated frequently with very little downtime. Carbon is still a relatively new site, so traffic is still infrequent and tables can take time to fill up, but peak hours still bring 8000+ to the tables.

     Carbon uses the basic software that came from poker.com. This is a tried and tested program and one of the best of the online rooms. Tables can be resized to help multi tabling and interface options and navigation are very user friendly. The software offers everything you would expect of a modern poker room and the lobby too is easy to navigate around.

   Traffic is still on the increase, but plenty of action can be found at peak hours both on the cash tables and tournament tables.

Carbon offer an array freerolls and guarenteed tournaments each day. Unfortunatly there are not alot of satellites into big live events, but player quality in the guaranteeds is soft and as such is a good place to build a bankroll from the ground up.

Promotions are not as great as other sites, but they do offer a generous sign up bonus and occassional reload bonuses. Their loyalty program is good if you play enough at the site and they also have a royal flush bonus which will net you 100x bonus if you are lucky enough to hit one. They also have a notoriously difficult bad beat jackpot which often goes into $100,000's due to the very stringent rules for claiming a bad beat!

   When you sign-up at Carbon Poker you will receive 30% rakeback. The Carbon Poker rakeback is automatically paid Daily to your Carbon Poker account. Carbon Poker uses the contributed rakeback method when calculating your rakeback. Carbon Poker does accept U.S. players. Tournament fees now count towards rakeback. You will receive a 150% up to $1000 first deposit bonus. Players may only have one rakeback account on the Merge Gaming Network. Players that have played for real money on the network in the last 60 days are not eligible for the first deposit bonus.

In addition to the 30% rakeback, Carbon Poker offers many guaranteed $$$ tournaments daily. The last Sunday of every month Carbon Poker offers a $50K freeroll. Carbon Poker also offers a Royal Flush bonus. If you make a Royal Flush using both hole cards you will win a bonus of 1000 times your big blind. The maximum bonus is $1000. The bonus is cleared at a rate of 100 comp points per $1 in bonus.

 All Carbon Poker players tracked to the Pokerpod will qualify for the carbon Poker Rake Chase. For more information, please click here.