Carbon Poker Software
Carbon Poker is the flagship site of the Merge Gaming Network, known for their high quality online poker software. The Carbon Poker software is unique offering more features than any other online poker site which includes the ability to run it twice (as seen on televised poker shows such as High Stakes Poker), the ability to fold and show one or both cards in the same spots that this is allowed in live games, and the option to rabbit hunt when winning a pot uncontested.
Carbon Poker also was one of the early sites to add resizeable tables to their online poker software. The tables maintain the same visual quality regardless of what size they are positioned as the Carbon Poker software uses vector graphics. If you’re not familiar with vector graphics, unlike the raster ones most sites use, these use geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations. Therefore, everything resizes the same, so no matter how the software is zoomed, the quality of images remains intact.
The first thing a player will notice once downloading the player software is the lobby. This is where players can access the poker tables, register for tournaments, access their hand history, player admin, the cashier and view the latest Carbon Poker news. As far as the tables are concerned, the lobby has everything broken down with advanced filters making it easy to find the game of choice. For example, when you click on the top tab “Poker Tables”, there are sub tabs: Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Draw & Other and Custom that can be selected. Below this is a third level of tabs where specific games can be found such as All, Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit. In the actual center of the software, you’ll find key table data such as table game, game type, stakes, number of players seated, number players on the wait list, average pot size, percentage of players per flop, and hands per hour. This table data is key in helping players find tables that are likely to be the best match for their playing style and game preferences
Once you’ve found a table you’d like to play, you can click on it and open up the actual game table. From here you’ll find table chat where you can talk to other players. Also there are a number of customization features such as the ability to auto post blinds, and set hands to auto muck. During a hand preaction buttons are available such as raise, fold, check etc. If you don’t use these preaction buttons but wait instead for the bet to come around to you, you have several options for sizing your bet. There is a bet slider that can be used to size the bet, also a bet can be manually entered, or one of two sets of buttons can be used. The first set of buttons gives the option to bet 2x 4x or 8x the minimum bet, and the second gives the option to be ¼, ½, ¾ or the full size of the pot. Note taking feature, blackjack games, mini and full size mode switch and more can also be accessed from the game table.
To give the Carbon Poker software a try for yourself download it from the Carbon Poker website.
