Archive for April, 2009

CarbonPoker’s ChipStar!

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 30th, 2009

Have you ever been pushed round the table by the chip leader?

Have you ever bullied your way to the final table with an intimidating chipstack?

Well, this May at CarbonPoker you and every other CarbonPoker player is invited to a $25,000 freeroll! Your ticket to entry – 100 or more VIP points. There will be unique starting chipstacks in action once again which means, the more you play, the bigger your stack and the better chance you’ll have! So it’s up to you whether you play the bully or the bullied as you battle your way through the hordes to $25,000 in cash prizes!

Seriously, this has got to be one of the easiest promotions to take part in ever. So if each and everyone of you arent in that that freeroll, I will take personal affront to it! Maybe…

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Lie To Me #2

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 28th, 2009

And the winner of the contest in the last was is itakedonations – I have gladly donated you $10 and here was the winning reply.

Lie To Me is an awesome show. Someone with the ability to read people at a poker table like the abilities portrayed in the show would be master in the poker world but, as any experienced poker player will tell you, most tells at the poker table can be horribly unreliable. A good poker player will be away of the common tells and will use these to their advantage to manipulate their opponent.

Not all tells are as unreliable as the well known common tells. One of the things I look for at a table is habits that expressed over several hands that you can be for sure your opponent is unknowingly or subconsciously doing. One thing that a lot of players unknowingly do is glancing at their chip stack as soon as the thought to bet crosses their mind. This is an extremely reliable tell because most people don’t even know that they do it.

Say for instance a player is holding a low-to-moderate pocket pair and the flop comes out and they hit their set. They will immediately look down at their chips, in turn revealing the strength of their hand and letting you know to stay away. Knowing that this player will glance at his chips when he has intentions of betting you can assume that when this player misses the flop they will avoid looking at their chips. That being known the pot is yours for the taking…

I hope this useful to you all in your future games.

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Lie To Me

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 16th, 2009

Has any one watched that new TV show – Lie to Me? For those who haven’t, its a US television program that features two doctors who have their doctorates in the field of emotional and micro-expressions. Now if you don’t know what a micro-expression is, let me teach you with my new found knowledge (thanks TV).

A micro-expression is a facial of body expression that expresses how we are feeling despite our attempts to hide them. i.e, a swallow when we lie, a twitch of the corners of the mouth, the movement of the eyes. The premise behind the show is that they can pick the tell tale signs of liars any time and anywhere as they know exactly what to look for and exactly what the signs mean.

Now how does this relate to poker? Well if you hadn’t picked up on it already, a micro-expression in the poker arena is known as a tell. Not quite as relevant in online poker, but still interesting. What micro-expressions do you pick up and interpret at the poker table?

The best answer and interpretation will get $10 in their player account.

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$50,000 Guaranteed is Massively Overspread

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 13th, 2009

The $50,000 Guaranteed tournament is massively overspread. Now if you don’t know, this means that the prize pool for the tournament, is not covered by buy-ins from the players. What this also means is that the players who are playing are playing for a full prize pool against half the amount of players they should be. Which in simplest terms equates to twice the money for half the players. So why haven’t you been playing the $50,000 on Sunday’s?

Your loss and all those lucky players gains! Come join the fun this coming Sunday!

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New Smilies

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 7th, 2009

There have been a few new smile’s hidden in the 4.5 release and its a little disappointing they haven’t been uncovered as of yet. However the good news is that me, your trusty blogger is here to save the day once again by spilling the highly secretive codewords to the new smile’s.

Try these next time your at the table

“Heater”

“Cooler”

“Save My Daddy”

There been a bit of heated discussion in the forums of late about the infamous panda smile’s, lets just leave it said that do you really think the panda will go down without a fight? After all people been trying to kill them off for years and they are still around…

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$50,000 Every Week

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 5th, 2009

CarbonPoker veteran bullitpete has taken down the first $50,000 guaranteed tournament in true style. The new $50,000 guaranteed which runs every week, is one of the best value tournaments available online, so if you missed out this week, I seriously expect you to be there next Sunday!

Seriously! If you don’t…I’ll be more disappointed than your mum would be if you bought her a case of your favorite beer for her birthday. Anyways, this Sundays tournament was a grueling poker exercise with some very heated competition. Running for a marathon 5.5 hours despite only a small field of 194. Now if the significance of this is yet to dawn on you then I’m going to educate your lacking poker mind. ….back to junior high maths…

$50,000 Guaranteed at $100 buy ins = 500 players
194 players = your playing for a prize pool that has been made up of 500 buy ins. So your getting a shot at loads of money with a relatively small field. Comprende?

Anyways, congratulation to bullitpete and all players who managed to cash! Well done and enjoy your winnings!

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4.5 and VIP Program Goes Live!

Posted By : CarbonPoker April 1st, 2009


At last, after a colossal effort by the Carbon Poker and Merge Gaming teams you have your VIP program and new level of gaming at your finger tips. It wasn’t all smooth running with many of the behind the scenes techies and computer wizards hard at work all through the night and the expected 3 hour downtime stretching out somewhat longer. However its smiles all round today as the changeover has been an outstanding success.

I know many players have questions and I highly recommend you check your email for the information mailers that have gone out, and then check the relevant sections of the website…

http://www.carbonpoker.com/vip/

http://www.carbonpoker.com/features/whatsnew.html

You might also want to check the player forums for some discussion on any issues.

If by the off chance you experience any problems or bugs, please report them to support with any relevant info. It helps us fix them quickly and efficiently.

Hope you all enjoy your VIP program and the new features.

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