To get a piece of the $10,000 that’s awarded every month, all you have to do is place somewhere within the top 25 players on the SNG Leaderboard.  The amount of money you earn will of course depend on where you finish in the top 25, but as long as you’re in one of these spots you will be getting paid.

The great thing is that the $10,000 isn’t the only money given out through the SNG Leaderboard since another $2,000 will be given away based on your streak bonus.  If you’re able to string together several sit and go wins, your leaderboard prize money will be multiplied based on your best win streak of the month.

Obviously, not all SNG’s are going to be equal when deciding who lands in the top 25 so allow me to explain how the points system works.  Every time you finish in the money in a sit and go, you will earn points towards the leaderboard.  The higher your placing and the higher the buy-in of the tournament, the more points you’ll receive.  For instance, a $20 + $2 SNG is going to award a lot more points than a $5 + $0.50 SNG considering the places are the same.

So the basic formula for figuring your SNG points is: √buy-in X your final placing bonus.  To illustrate this formula at work, let’s say you finished first in a $10 + $1 sit and go (√100 X 12).  Using this formula, you would earn 120 points on the SNG Leaderboard and be that much closer to grabbing a share of the $10,000.  Simply put: you need to play in sit and go’s and place well to win major cash.

Check out the March Madness page for full details on how you can win yourself $500/day in real cash.

During the month of March, every real cash ring game, SnG and MTT you play helps you work your way through 10 different levels of Hoop Prizes. Hit a new level choose 1 of 5 hoops to reveal your prize. It’s that simple.

Win bonus prizes all month long.

The $420 + $40 buy in tournament brought in 33 players, including some of Carbon’s best players. There were numerous seat winners in attendance, including a stacked final table.

In the final 11 players we had heavy hitters like:

LTUFlawless – 2nd (Aus Mills, WSOP)

bullitpete – 5th (WSOP – EPT – Aus Mills)

vader46 – 6th (Aus Mills – MTT LB winner)

foxyuk – 10th (Aus Mills – EPT – WSOP)

1GOLDENBEAR1 – 11th (Aus Mills)

DrextheTex – 12th – (Aus Mills – WSOP)

All of them had already won a live seat through Carbon Poker tournaments, and many of them have done it more than once.

LTUFlawless won $952 in second place.

Congrats to mesut5400. We’ll be sending more players to represent CarbonPoker at the WSOP, so don’t miss out on your chance to hit the tables and come out with a $12,500 prize.

AWESOME UPDATE: in the past 12 months, CarbonPoker has paid out $2,833,938.01 to our Bad Beat Jackpot winners and losers.

Just as the famous Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot hit $300,000, five lucky winners brought it right back down.

On the flop, medman08 had 4 Aces and WizAlex0 had 3 9s. The Turn completed WizAlex0’s 4 of a kind (9s), and both players were obviously all-in. The pot was a paltry $277, but the payout was extreme. WizAlex0 took down $105,723 as the hand’s loser and medman08 won $52,862.

Let’s not forget about the three others at the table who won $17,621 for their troubles (folding).

For those of you that don’t know, the Carbon Poker Bad Bead Jackpot goes off when a hand of Quad 7s or higher gets beaten — keep in mind that this is the lowest qualifier online.

Payout:

• WizAlex0 Wins $105,723.46 (Bad Beat Loser)
• medman08 Wins $52,861.73 (Bad Beat Winner)
• RMaroni Wins $17,620.57 (Bad Beat Other)
• Market6226 Wins $17,620.57  (Bad Beat Other)
• OneFatDog Wins $17,620.57 (Bad Beat Other)

Full Hand History after the jump:

RMaroni is the Dealer

Shuffling Cards

Market6226 Posted Small Blind $2.00

WizAlex0 Posted Big Blind $4.00

Dealing Cards

OneFatDog Folds

medman08 Raised to $10.00

RMaroni Folds

Market6226 Folds

WizAlex0 Raised to $40.00

medman08 All In

WizAlex0 All In

Dealing Flop (Ac,Ah,9s)

Dealing Turn (9h)

Dealing River (Ks)

medman08 Shows (Ad,As)

WizAlex0 Shows (9d,9c)

$76.15 Returned to medman08 from Pot 2

medman08 Wins $201.10 from Pot 1 with : Four of a Kind, Aces

RMaroni Wins $17,620.57 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)

Market6226 Wins $17,620.57 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)

WizAlex0 Wins $105,723.46 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Loser)

OneFatDog Wins $17,620.57 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)

medman08 Wins $52,861.73 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Winner)

As I told you before, the Carbon Poker Winter Olympics has kicked off. Check out the specialty ring games, tournaments, SnG and MTTs for your shot at Olympic glory.

Pictured to the left is a sneak peak of the table design.

Can’t you just picture yourself sitting at one of those final tables and winning a live WSOP seat? Sounds good, right? Get out there, earn some points, and make it happen.

Since February is so short, be sure to get started on these leader boards before too long!

GL at the tables.

And the best part? No spandex required… or frost bite.

Basically, there are two leader board events to play in: the Olympics Alpine Poker Championship (Multi-Table Tournament Leader Board) and the Nordic Combined Poker Championship (VIP Point accumulation leader board). Play in one or both. Seriously… it’s up to you. What am I, your mom?

What’s up for grabs? I’m glad you asked:

Compete in the final tournaments of each event for thousands of dollars, Live WSOP Seats, exclusive Olympic accolades and CarbonPoker coupons. To me, that’s a lot better than freezing outside, or throwing myself down an icetrack at 150MPH. But again, you could do both. It’s up to you.

Check out the official Carbon Olympics page for the breakdown of prizes, events and leader board spots.

This player is obviously ecstatic now and can barely believe hitting the bonus on a $5 hand.

When reached for comment, hyun503 said:

“I have no clue what to think right now. It’s just crazy! I just wanted to take it in right now and relax for the next couple days.”

Just another example of a happy winner of our industry-leading jackpots.

Want to get in on the action and grab a massive jackpot? Check out the Bad Beat Tables or the $1 and $5 Caribbean Stud games. Don’t forget to place the jackpot bet, or you could miss out on thousands!

How does the Caribbean Stud jackpot payout? Check it out below:

Royal Flush – 100%
Straight Flush – 10%
Four of a Kind – $100
Full House – $75
Flush – $50

Hit the tables and good luck out there. Hope you hit a jackpot soon.

Why not spend it with CarbonPoker and play in the Special $500 Added Boxing Day Freezeout Tourney. These are great because of the immediate value-added and low buy-in.

The Buy-In is only $5.50, so get in line for the best Boxing Day deal online.

Details:
Dec 26, 2009 | 17:00 Server Time
$5 + $0.50 / 550 VIP Points Buy-IN
Tournaments >> Scheduled >> Special
Special Accolade Awarded to winners

Good luck on the tables over the holidays. Posts are going to be a bit sparse as I’ll be sitting down for some annual family home games.

Features:

CarbonPoker 4.7 has gone through Beta testing and is ready for web-wide launch. Be on the lookout for easier-to-use rebuy reminders, Sticky Preferred Seating, Pot Bet improvements, synchronized tourney breaks and more.

Rebuys & Buyins
-    Auto Rebuy options
-    Remember regular buyin amounts for cash games
-    Request rebuy while still in a hand
-    Other tweaks

Sticky Preferred Seating
-    We’ll now remember your preferred chair and sit you in it when you register for a cash or single table tournament

Pot Bet Buttons
- ¼, 1/3, and ½ pot bet buttons have been updated to ½, 2/3 and ¾ pot bet

These are pretty exciting features that will be greatly appreciated by our Carbon regulars. I love the idea of synchronized tourney breaks – as you will now be able to play multiple MTTs with synchronized breaks. You can play your way into the bubble in two tourneys, with time for a bathroom break.

Keep your eyes peeled for the new features.

Downtime:

At 02:00 Server Time on Tuesday, there will be some scheduled downtime to push through these recent updates. So schedule something, like some sleep, for the few hours following that redeploy.

Hit the comments to let us know about the new features and what you think.

Enjoy!

In a heads-up Grand Slam format, they duked it out for 5 hours, 6minutes and 21 seconds on the No Limit Hold’em tables. This capped of our successful 2009 Thanksgiving promo. It was banner month for SitNGos and players.

Each player came into the tourney with a unique starting stack, based on how they placed in the Leaderboard. As you will see below, whether you started with a big stack or a smaller one the most important part is getting into the event. Second place only started out with 5,731 chips — which was 42nd to begin with.

Congrats to the Top 8 players, who all pulled down $1K+ for their effort. Here is the list:

Top Finishers

yoyojen – $3,691.35 (24,416 Starting Chips)

Pius35 – $2,605. 59 (5,731 Starting Chips)

desertkitty – $1,628.49 (17,729 Starting Chips)

tlopeztlopez – $1,628.49 (3,562 Starting Chips)

buschmaqb – $1,085.66 (7,453 Starting Chips)

Jestersgirl – $1,085.66 (3,899 Starting Chips)

mazokie – $1,085.66 (42,445 Starting Chips)

vader46 – $1,085.66 (10,631 Starting Chips)