Carbon Poker (Merge Network) Overlays, Tournament Results, and Player Traffic Report
Carbon Poker multi-table tournament results, overlays, player traffic trends, MTT schedule, analysis, and comparison to safe & secure US-facing offshore online poker sites.
Carbon Poker / Merge Gaming Overlays, Tournament Results and Player Traffic Report
Carbon Poker Tournaments Review
Carbon Poker, the flagship online poker site on the Merge Gaming Network, offers USA and ROW (rest of world) players a plethora of cash game, multi-table tournament, and sit & go games. Sporting the second most MTT offerings among US-friendly online poker rooms, Carbon gives plenty of value without many overlays. Participants can re-enter most Professional Rakeback Carbon Poker tournaments during their late registration period, which usually lasts about 140 minutes (though longer for larger guaranteed MTT's). Signature events range from daily $4,000 GTD tournaments to their massive $125,000 guaranteed Sunday Big Ticket major, with special events such as the Carbon OPS and Poker Mamxius tournament series ran at different points throughout the year.
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Carbon's MTT schedule is second only to Bovada among USA online poker sites, offering nearly 50 tournaments with guarantees of $4,000 and higher each week. Overlays are sparse, typically limited to Sunday events such as the Big Ticket Sunday major. Averaging around 400 players per tournament tracked, players have a solid opportunity to cash in these events. And with the Carbon OPS slated to return in September, there will be plenty of chances to hit even bigger paydays.
Player traffic has been on the rise over the summer months, which bucks the normally slower player fields trend during this time of the year. ProfRB.com expects this to hold through the beginning of fall, and should increase nicely due to the aforementioned Carbon OPS. Carbon OPs is still called Poker Maximus on other Merge Gaming sites, Professional Rakeaback offers other alternative Merge Poker sites if you are not interested in playing on Carbon Poker, check out our reviews.
QUICK MTT STATS (July 21st through August 3rd)
Total overlays: $0 (down $2,680 from 7/7 -7/20)
Heaviest day for overlays: none ($0 in overlays over this tracking period)
Total entries: 39,004 (+1,267 from 7/7-7/20)
MTT of note: The $25,000 GTD Dollar Frenzy event, which was a one-time tournament ran last month (hence why it was not applicable to our tracking stats), was the only MTT that featured an overlay this tracking period. There were 14,039 entries, producing a $10,961 overlay.
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The reason for the lack of overlays has a lot to do with desegregration among partnered online poker sites and the "merging" of the Aced Poker player pool. Traffic has been steadily increasing in most tournaments during the summer, with some MTT's seeing relatively unchanged participation. Expect the lack of overlays to continue for the time being, at least until tournament guarantees are increased - although currently, Merge has been patient in terms of allowing players to get used to the current schedule.
Carbon has settled into the de-facto #2 position in terms of tournament offerings among US-facing poker rooms. Still a ways from competing with Bovada for the top spot, but way ahead compartively speaking with the current third place Winning Poker Network, Carbon is primed to remain a quality option for MTT players of any skill set.
As summer turns to fall and the Carbon OPS comes and goes, we expect the coming months to be solid for Carbon Poker. Be sure to check back to this report as time marches on for the very latest in Carbon tournament results and overlay reporting.