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Everybody loves to play poker for free money – especially when $25,000 is on the line! And that’s exactly what you can expect at Carbon Poker when they run their $25,000 Bankroll Booster Freeroll on February 26th. To get into the $25k Bankroll Booster, you need to play in the daily qualifiers that’ll be running from now until February 25th. There are three qualifiers running every day, and they take place at 13:30, 17:30 and 21:30 (server time). The entry is totally free, and the top 10 finishers in each poker tournament will receive a seat for the $25k freeroll. …

Historically, Merge Gaming has always offered one of the largest bad beat jackpots in online poker. In fact, a player named “RUGGIO” once unlocked a $1.2 million Merge jackpot after seeing his jack-high straight fall to a king-high straight. It seems as if the Merge Gaming bad beat jackpot is on the rise again since it’s at $570k, and rapidly increasing. In order to unlock this bad beat prize, you need to play at one of the Merge Gaming sites like Aced, Carbon Poker, Poker Nordica and/or RPM Poker. If you’re a member of one of these sites, the next …

Carbon Poker ran their $1million Bad Beat Jackpot on Saturday (14 January) and two, yep that’s right, TWO RakeTheRake players cashed out! The total payout from the Bad Beat was $710,184.63 with the loser ‘Eulson’ winning a massive $355,092.35 share. The huge jackpot delivered cashes for 9 players and saw RakeTheRake’s rakeback players ‘mehwhateva)’ and ‘SoSoLaLa’ both finish to take $25,363.73! Not bad for a Saturday night’s work! ‘mehwhateva)’ was the first player to fold, with ‘SoSoLaLa’ folding fifth. Full details of the tourney can be viewed here.

Carbon Poker is yet another online poker site that’s come into the New Year with renewed vigor since they’re offering a couple of big promotions in January. Current members can take advantage of a reload bonus, while both new and existing players will enjoy the Quad Pyramid promotion. Here’s a brief look at the specifics of each promo: Reload Bonus – If you deposit before January 15th, 2012 (23:59 server time), you can get a 10% up to $30 reload bonus. The only stipulation is that you have to be an existing Carbon Poker member, and use the “FRESHSTART” bonus …

Carbon Poker is the latest site to jump on the holiday season bandwagon since they’ve announced that they’re adding $1,000 to four poker tournaments in December ($4,000 total). What’s particularly nice about this is that the added-value tournaments feature really low buy-ins, so lots of people will be able to play. But before you can enter the tournaments, it’s worth mentioning that you need to earn 250 VIP points throughout the month of December. Aside from this, you only need to pay the buy-in to enter, and here is a look at the complete schedule: December 17th – $5 + …

Carbon Poker has tweaked their poker tournament lineup to include the brand new Fat Stack and Slim Stack tournaments. What’s great about these poker tournaments is that they cater to players who like deep stack and/or short stack tourneys. The Carbon Poker Slim Stack tournaments cover the latter since players only start off with 10 poker chips, and the blind levels begin at 0.5/1. From here, the blinds will advance every two minutes, which doesn’t afford players the luxury of sitting around waiting for premium hands. Of course if you’re a casual or beginning poker player, Slim Stack poker tournaments …

We’ve got an exclusive three part promotion running right NOW which includes huge cash bonuses. From today until Sunday 27 November, RakeTheRake players can play in a massive and exclusive promotion. Offering players the chance to enter 16 freerolls at four of the top online poker rooms over four days, our Thanksgiving promotion has $44,000 worth of prize money to be won! Each freeroll at Americas Cardroom, Cake Poker, Carbon Poker and Minted Poker will offer $250, totalling $4000 in prize money. Plus RakeTheRake has added some massive cash prizes for players who win multiple freerolls: •    RTR Hoodie if …

If you pay much attention to credit card companies, then you’ve probably heard of a “cashback” offer. Even if you doze off during credit card commercials, the term’s name is pretty self-explanatory in that people receive money back on purchases with these offers. Many online poker sites have taken a cue from credit card companies, and now feature their own version of cashback plans. With poker cashback, players receive money back at various intervals based on how much rake they contribute. For example, if a player at Carbon Poker has a 10% cashback offer, and they contribute $100 in rake …

If you’re looking for a major poker tournament to play in, then a great place to start your search is at Carbon Poker since they’re currently running satellites for the 2011 WPT Prague Main Event. Last year, WPT Prague offered players a $3.8 million prize pool, and Wales native Roberto Romanello won the largest share of this prize pool at $846,180. Those looking to follow in Romanello’s footsteps can visit Carbon Poker, and look for the WPT Prague satellites in their poker software. To find the satellites, click on Tournaments > Satellites > Scheduled, and you’ll see the following satellites …

In order to catch up with their payment processing backlog, the MergeGaming network temporarily stopped accepting US players. But now that their payment processing backlog has been cleared up, the network announced that they’ll be taking American players once again. This means US players who want to play at Merge rooms like Aced, Black Chip Poker, Carbon Poker, Poker Nordica, and RPM Poker can do so once again. Furthermore, US players will be able to take advantage of all the great deals offered through the aforementioned MergeGaming sites. This being said, here is a look at some of the excellent …