Ease of use: The look of Carbon Poker reminds you of a spreadsheet, clear yet bland, the overall theme is uninspiring. Graphics are not well displayed, and the layout can be quite confusing. The good points are the connectability, with no reports of connection failings, and the general navigation of the site, to deposit money for instance. There is no avatar offered as with most other sites, and the overall impression of the software is that it's not as polished as it could be, this is in direct contrast to Carbon Poker's website, which offers you all the information you could need, with easily navigable menus and screens. If only they had extended this ethos to their software. 5/10 Bonus: Carbon Poker awards the standard 100% bonus up to a limit of $500 (although the website gives the maximum as $200). Players are also given a ticket to the depositors freeroll. Not much out of the ordinary to attract new customers here, CarbonPoker obviously rely on other things to get the poker players in. 5/10 Transfer: Initial deposits can take upto 24hours, however this is solely for your financial security. All transactions are logged and given status markers so the customer always knows exactly where their money is. At other times after the initial deposit transactions are quick and easily processed. 7.5/10 Fairness: Carbon Poker offers competitive yet fair gaming, and rarely disconnects, ensuring that the customer always feels safe playing on their software. 9/10 Events: Qualifiers are present at Carbon Poker for a variety of big name tournaments, including the WSOP, and The Aussie Millions, and entry can be earnt for these kind of tournaments for as little as $2 start. Their flagship tournament is the $20,000 guaranteed tournament, held every Sunday at 17:00. Tournaments are available from as little as $0.06, and there are many freerolls offered, including one for depositors, one for new customers, and one for those who have referred friends to the site. For the gamer who likes a slightly higher stake, there are a substantial range of daily tournaments for more than $50 buy-in. Carbon Poker has all levels of tournament for all types of player. 9/10 Types of Game: Carbon Poker offers an amazing array of games for customers to play, there are regular tournaments in the staples: Hold-em (No-Limit and Limit), Omaha + Hi-Lo, 5 Card and 7 Card stud and draw. and more exotic games such as Badugi, Razz and HORSE, the range of buy-ins offered are varied across all price levels in all games. In the ring games section, all the different games are again represented, with games starting from as little as $0.02 and emcompassing all buy-ins up to the maximum $50 stake tables. however it is only Hold-em and Omaha and 5-Card Draw that attract any attention and play. Perhaps by trying to cater for all tastes, all Carbon Poker has done is create hundreds of empty tables, as customers are bewildered by the sheer amount of choice available and are scared back to the usual games. 10/10 Traffic: Players online are marked at around 4,000 which is quite low by some sites' standards. All the players that exist on the site at any one time seem to congregate around the sit and go NLHoldEm tournaments as these are always quickest to fill up. This ensures that there are always tournaments to play in if sit and go tournaments are your thing. 6/10 Competition: As you would expect from a site attracting so little traffic, the calibre of players is greatly varied and predominatly this is one of the easier games to play on, however this can adversely affect proceedings with bad beats aplenty, as players play on poor hands that experienced players would never look twice at. 6/10 Customer Support: Although the support cannot be accessed directly from the in-game software, once the user has been redeirected to a web page, all relevant information can be found and problems easily resolved via either e-mail or LiveChat. 7/10 Financial Security: Carbon Poker offers a secure gaming environment, which is further enhanced by various transactional protocol and other features. Licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Comission the site offers a random number generator which ensures all cards dealt are enitrely fair. 9/10 Bottom Line: Carbon Poker seems to try so hard but succeed at very little. They offer one of the biggest ranges of game types available across all poker software, with all tastes accomodated for. Yet they only manage to attract a paltry number of gamers when compared to some of their bigger competitors. The reason is the lack of polish given to their overall appearance, be it the lobby that looks like a confused spreadsheet, or the initial lengthy 24 hour waiting period on the initial deposit or the awkwardly displayed in-game hands, Carbon poker falls just short every time. It's definitely a case of so near, so far.
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