Game Selection: Midstakes nl cash at Carbon
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“Game Selection” is an article series where we highlight solid values for online poker players - covering bonuses, soft games, special tournaments, and so on. This installment focuses on the no limit cash games at Carbon Poker, a room on the Merge Network, which seem to be some of the softest available online.
Game detail
The .50/1 - 3/6 no limit cash games on Carbon Poker (both full ring and shorthanded). Carbon Poker (formerly Poker.com) is a room on the Merge Network.
Where’s the value?
Merge doesn’t support PokerTracker and has terrible hand histories - a feature that keeps all the multi-tabling grinders at bay. The network also has a lot of new skins (many of which have a casino component), which keeps fresh traffic coming in as those sites roll out attractive initial bonuses. Finally, the network pays rakeback daily and has frequent deposit bonuses, cycling money back into play more rapidly.
These facts, along with a host of smaller factors, have resulted in some of the softest no limit games at and about the 1/2 limit online. You’ll see plays you haven’t seen since the Party Poker days: lots of passive play, tons of call downs, and the like. There are some tough players, but they’re the exception and not the rule.
Availability
Games at these stakes run pretty consistently on Carbon, although you might have trouble finding a 2/4 table or higher during off-peak times.
Extras
Carbon offers rakeback (30%) and pays that rakeback daily. They also have lots of smaller buy in tournaments with solid overlay values.
The 2/4 NL max buy in at Carbon is $500.
