Writing this Carbon Poker review has been a tough task but finally it is ready for me to post. Carbon Poker is a growing poker room with very detailed and stylish games. The site features a decent amount of traffic with country specific tournaments and promotions.
Bonuses and Promotions 9/10
Carbon poker offers a 100% sign-up bonus up to $600.00. As with all signup bonuses there are terms and conditions associated with it, such as increments being released as a certain amount of points are accumulated.
Carbon Poker offers an additional sign-up bonus for their new players. When you sign up you qualify for 30 days in the new player freerolls, best of all there is no deposit necessary to play these freerolls. If you are a newly depositing customer you will earn free entry into the new depositor freeroll for 14 days.
Carbons VIP program is one of the many other bonuses on offer. The VIP program offers loyal customers a number of bonuses where points can be used including access to the VIP store with exclusive Carbon merchandise, tournament buy-ins and best of all you can exchange points for cash.
Carbon Poker has a leader board promotion for their Sit N Go players. Basically leader board points are awarded to each player based upon their placings in any Sit N Go tournament. There are over $10,000 in cash prizes to be won each month and an extra $2,000 for the Streaker Leader board.
Carbon Poker also has a leader board promotion for their multi table tournament players Basically you accumulate leader board points for every multi table tournament played throughout each full month. The top 100 places receive entry into a Leader Board Grand Final with a major live seat package for the first place winner.
Carbon Poker has a refer a friend program. The more people you refer to carbon the more you earn. You will earn $25 for yourself for each friend referred, plus you and your referred friend will gain free entry for the $2,500.00 refer a friend freeroll. As with all referral programs conditions apply. Your friend must deposit and have accumulated 250 points.
The royal flush promotion is pretty unique. If you are lucky enough to get a royal flush (must include both hole cards) on any real money Texas Holdem ring game and you will receive a bonus of 100 x the big blind. Lastly Carbon Poker has a Bad Beat Jackpot with huge money involved if you are lucky enough to be bad beaten the right way.
Game Selection 10/10
Carbon poker offers almost all poker variants that the online giants have on their sites. These variants include the following:
- No Limit Texas Holdem - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 blinds with 2 to 9 seats available.
- Pot Limit Texas Holdem – 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 blinds with 2 to 9 seats available.
- Limit Texas Holdem - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 blinds with 2 to 9 seats available.
- Omaha - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 limits with 2 to 9 seats available.
- Omaha Hi-Lo - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 limits with 2 to 9 seats available.
- 7 Card Stud – Pot Limit, 2c/5c/25c through to $2/$4/$25 stakes. Limit, 10c/20cthrough to $25/$50 stakes. Both Pot Limit and Limit are available in 8 seats only.
- 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo - Pot Limit, 2c/5c/25c through to $2/$4/$25 stakes. Limit, 10c/20cthrough to $25/$50 stakes. Both Pot Limit and Limit are available in 8 seats only.
- 5 Card Stud - Pot Limit, 1c/2c/10c through to $1/$2/$10 stakes. Limit, 10c/20cthrough to $10/$20 stakes. Both Pot Limit and Limit are available in 8 seats only.
- 5 Card Draw – 5c/10c through to $10/$20 stakes with 5 seat tables available.
- Triple - 5c/10c through to $10/$20 stakes with 5 seat tables available.
- Badugi - 2c/4c through to $10/$20 stakes with 5 seat tables available
- HORSE, HOSE, HO, SHOE, RASH and HAR have limits of 10c/25c through to $50/$100. There are 2 to 9 seats available.
Most of the above games are available to play in tournaments. Check the list of tournaments on Carbon Poker once joining on a regular basis to see what is coming up. All games are available as ring games.
Tournaments and Sit N Go's 7/10
Carbon Poker offer freerolls to the total value of $500 daily. Every 4 hours a $50 freeroll runs for all Carbon Poker players. Carbon Poker also offers freerolls for people who have accumulated enough points. The point based buy-in freerolls include the following tournaments:
* $1,000 Daily Freeroll
* $2,000 Saturday Freeroll
* $10,000 Sunday Freeroll
* $50,000 Monthly Freeroll
You can find guaranteed tournaments on Carbon Poker at any time. There are multiple buy-ins, to suit every online poker enthusiasts, guaranteed tournaments included re-buy, add-on and deep stack.
Carbon Poker also offers shoot out, satellite and bounty tournaments for all bankroll sizes. The satellites available on Carbon mean you can gain entry to some of the worlds biggest live events including the WSOP and Aussie Millions for as little as $2.
Tournaments are available to players with entry fees of 6c through to $550. Poker points can also be used to enter some tournaments. Sit N Go's can be played on Carbon from 60c through to $415.
Ring Games 9/10
Although carbon has a load of ring games, they cater for low to medium stakes. High stakes such as $500/$1000 will not be found on this site. All in all their ring game selection and limits are brilliant and suit most players. No Limit Texas Holdem - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 blinds with 2 to 9 seats availabe
- Pot Limit Texas Holdem – 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 blinds with 2 to 9 seats available
- Limit Texas Holdem - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 blinds with 2 to 9 seats available.
- Omaha - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 limits with 2 to 9 seats available.
- Omaha Hi-Lo - 2c/ 4c through to $50/$100 limits with 2 to 9 seats available
- 7 Card Stud – Pot Limit, 2c/5c/25c through to $2/$4/$25 stakes. Limit, 10c/20cthrough to $25/$50 stakes. Both Pot Limit and Limit are available in 8 seats only.
- 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo - Pot Limit, 2c/5c/25c through to $2/$4/$25 stakes. Limit, 10c/20cthrough to $25/$50 stakes. Both Pot Limit and Limit are available in 8 seats only.
- 5 Card Stud - Pot Limit, 1c/2c/10c through to $1/$2/$10 stakes. Limit, 10c/20cthrough to $10/$20 stakes. Both Pot Limit and Limit are available in 8 seats only.
- 5 Card Draw – 5c/10c through to $10/$20 stakes with 5 seat tables available
- Triple - 5c/10c through to $10/$20 stakes with 5 seat tables available
- Badugi - 2c/4c through to $10/$20 stakes with 5 seat tables available
- HORSE, HOSE, HO, SHOE, RASH and HAR have limits of 10c/25c through to $50/$100. There are 2 to 9 seats available.
Traffic 7/10
Carbon poker generally has 1000 to 2000+ people online at any given time. As with most sites traffic is the highest at peak times. Carbon poker is US friendly adding to the ever increasing drive of traffic to the poker room.
Customer Service 8/10
Carbon Poker offers support 24/7 through means of email and live chat. Most email responses are completed within 48 hours and live chat responses are instant. One interesting fact that i noticed while doing the Carbon poker review is the fact that it does not offer telephone support.
Software 7/10
Carbon poker is a smooth running poker site with bright and clean graphics. Carbon Pokers lobby is divided up making it very easy to find the games that you want. There is also a filter that helps you find exactly what you are looking for.
The tables are neat and look quit sophisticated. There are no avators (just a small picture box) but this makes little difference to the above board look of Carbon Poker. The table sounds are realistic.
Carbon gives you the latest news when logging in. In addition to this Carbon has a blog site and community section. In this section are all of the poker rules and how to play as well as poker videos and information on poker pros. Carbon has great emoticon s for expressions.
Deposit Methods 8/10
Carbon Poker offers deposit methods to suit most online gamers, these include Visa , Mastercard,eCheck, Neteller, Click2Pay, 1-Pay, Moneybookers, EcoCard, eWalletExpress, PIC-Club, ClickandBuy and Entropay
Withdrawal Methods 6/10
The minimum withdrawal amount on carbon poker is $25. Withdrawal methods are few but suit most clientele and include:
1. Check
2. eWalletXpress
3. Pic Club
4. Click2Pay
Other Features 6/10
Carbon Poker has a brilliant emoticon setup to express your feelings whilst at the table. They are cute, lively and large emotes. In addition Carbon provides all the little extra things such as news, blogs and a community section as mentioned above.
Carbon has a brilliant selection of mixed games, it has a lobby containing easy deposit buttons and other buttons to things such as admin, settings and history. One of the best other features is the player counter showing exactly who you are up against at any given time. Overall for this carbon poker review i give carbon poker a rating of 7.7/10. 
