Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 878
Cardplayer cruises are normally on Royal Caribbean ships, not Carnival. I was due to go on a Cardplayer cruise March 2020, but it was cancelled. I have been on three cruises where I played poker. All the rakes were absurd, like 15% uncapped. The upside was the players were in general terrible. But, you can't beat that rake in the long run. I think I paid for my cruises just by playing, but that won't always happen.
I don't know the quality of the players on Cardplayer cruises. I know some are new players, and the photos I see on their website show mostly older players, but that is your best bet for playing poker on a cruise. The rake is normal, and Linda Johnson runs them. The games I think only typically go up to NL 2/5 though, but they have daily tournaments and a big tournament. NCL normally has a big tournament cruise once a year, the WPT just had a poker cruise last year.