Carbon Poker is a relatively new player on the online poker market, but it's quite clear it is determined to succeed, offering massive promotions, quick withdrawals and great software.

Residing on the increasingly popular Merge Gaming network also allows them to accommodate U.S. players – a great advantage, and something helping them grow quickly.

The games at Carbon Poker are on the looser side, with many inexperienced players taking their first shot at online poker. The loosest tables tend to be the low and micro stakes, but the more unusual games can also prove to be very profitable.

Carbon Poker offers very good game diversity, with some of the lesser known games mixed in with all variations of the more common Texas Hold'em and Omaha. The games offered at Carbon Poker are Texas Hold'em, Seven-Card Stud Hi and Hi-Lo, Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo, Razz, Five-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw, Triple Draw and Badugi.

Currently, Texas Hold'em and Omaha are the dominant games offered in tournament format, with only a few tournaments running in Badugi and Draw Poker. All games are available as heads-up, full and shorthanded tables. Carbon Poker also offers plenty of multi-table tournaments and sit-and-gos, and are very good at spicing up play with lots of special tournament offers and giveaways.

The traffic volume is in the lower segment of the industry, but the popularity of both Carbon Poker and the Merge Gaming network is rising fast and the amount of active players is increasing daily. Real-money player statistics as of April 2008 show 500 ring-game players at peak hours, and 2,000 tournament players at peak hours.

Overall, Carbon Poker offers good software, an attractive player base, good promotions and great multi-table possibilities. The Carbon Poker software is also updated frequently to ensure safety and stability, with little downtime as a result.