Yes, AFAIK, unless something's changed in the last couple of years. I've had an account on both Sportsbook and Carbon since about 2013 or 14, whenever Carbon joined Merge. Been a member of Sportsbook since 2009. Merge was not taking new players or maybe just not new US players for awhile. It looks they may have opened their membership back up though, because I played there recently (micro cash) and saw quite a few new players.

Software won't let you open a second Merge poker app if you already have one open, so you can't play on more than one skin at a time, plus it's not allowed. All Merge skins share the same player group

Any idea how the sportsbook cashouts have been? Carbon is maxing out their "5-7 business days" with no real explanation as to why they need so much time to process BTC when all the other sites are 48 hrs

500 player points= 50$ paid in rake. So you have to pay 50$ in rake to release 10$ from your bonus.

My software crashes it seems like every 4 to 5 hours only on desktop not on laptop. Reinstalling doesnt help. I would hate to buy a new computer got it this year but it has to be costing me 5-10 bucks of equity a day. Have been lucky to not have it happen in a huge spot so it maybe has not actually cost me as much as it should of

Intertops and ACR will crash every once in a while but seem less specific to my computer.

No videos today and still error

Does anybody here know if them not accepting new players is permanent or temporary?

My laptop with windows 10 does that, others with older microsoft operating systems are good.

Likely temporary, but for how long who knows. It’s been this way for at least 2 years if not longer. Rumor has it they’re not accepting more because they lost their gaming license. They need to get it figured out though because eventually the player pool will dry up.

Can def tell they are accepting new players as there are a lot of new ROW regs on the tables lately.

How exactly could that be? Carbon is their only skin right and i dont see any signup link on their home page still.

Not according to the post below from 3 days ago.



Are Sportsbook and PlayersOnly no longer on the Merge Network?

Many of these "new players" are most likely returning folks who received free entry to the Oct. and Nov. $55 special tournaments.

I have both Sportsbook and Carbon and they are on same network.

The player "pool" has been almost dried up for at least the last five years. As far as cash games go, ATM it's pretty much down to the last drop already.

Hi,

I m writing because I was robbed by CarbonGaming. I was playing there everyday for last few months. My nickname is "xinkuanxio". I m sure many players know me because I was one of the most active player on nl200-nl500 and also PLO500. Everything was fine, till I had the biggest winning session in my career on merge. I won over 5k$ on December 21-22. I won 4887$ from one player "TableMarshall15". I was playing with him few hours heads up and later 3max and also 6max. I can see in HM2 that I won with him 202 hands and lost 300 hands. At the end of this message I ll add screenshots. It was first time I met this guy at the table. He is player from USA, I m from Poland. Unfrotunately, next day my account was blocked. I was informed that I chip dumped with this player and my poker account is permamently blocked + 5k$ was taken from my account and sent back to "TableMarshall15". I was shocked. I sent them emails explaining that I didnt do anything wrong. Now I ll paste e-mails I exchanged with support team.

Merge: "Hi Piotr,

After a recent review of your account we notice you performed a willing transfer of funds from player "TableMarshall15". Therefore, we require you to explain the nature of your actions and the relationship with this customer by responding to this e-mail.

Until a response is received we have inactivated your poker account.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter."

Me: "Hi, I promised i didnt do any money transfer with this player and I dont know him. Check please history of our game. We played many many hours together and paid a lot of rake. At
the beginning I won from 500 to 1500 and then he started winning from me till I had 200$. I had to do even deposit meanwhile to keep playing with him. Why would I do such stupid thing and pay additional money to do deposit and later pay free from withdrawal? He is super big fish and just tilded versus me. Check please how many hours we playerd together and also hands. I won and lost many pots with him. I know he all in Ajo versus me when I had AA but it s not my fault. He was playing same versus other guys too. Check hand I 3b him 34s on button versus Cu. Bluffed him twice on flop and turn and on riv I just gave up. He had ace high and won with me. If we were transfering money we wouldnt do it for sure. I would bet river and he would fold his aq on 1010298 board. I lost few hands where i was trying to bluff him. I also lost to him hand when i bluffed overbet on riv 305 to pot 250 I guess and he called me with second pair on board Q3QJ2. After this and few next hands I had problem with money and I did btc deposit as fast as possible because I was scared fish gonna run away. I m sending few hands from holdem manager 2 which proof we didnt transfer money."

Merge: "Hi Piotr,

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but our management team has reviewed your account and has deemed that it will remain inactive.

In regards to the balance transfer the funds have been credited back to the account of origin. Note that this is a recurrent situation and such actions cannot be tolerated since we are committed on creating a fair and quality gaming experience.

Our security department reserves the right to close any account if evidence of play contrary to accepted standards of fair dealing, is found or suspected.

Best Regards,

Daniel
Fraud Team
Merge Gaming Network"

Me: "What is going on here? I play versus drunk fish thats spewing around and you are telling me its chip dumping and give him money back?
THIS IS RIDICULOUS! And i wont accept that. I dont know how your management team checks such situation but they are deadly wrong this time!
I understand that You reserve the right to do anything you want but lets be serious, this bad for your buisness to take money from innocent players.
This guy was clearly going mental and playing crazy, i won in fair game!!!
Please explain me further and show evidence under which you made such terrible decision.
Im not going to let that go... I have no clue who this drunk fellow was but that was FAIR GAME and i COULD HAVE lost.
This is going on 2+2 and other major poker forums. I will wait 3 days to let you make it right. Check the god damn hand histories, check how much rake I paid in this game, check that I ve never played with this guy before. I have no clue who it is... I bet he will loose all this money again within hours playing the way he does..."

Merge: "Hi Piotr, We are unable to provide details of our review and procedures, but basically our conclusion is based on the actions that took place at the time of the transfer and taking into account that this is the second time . Unfortunately there is nothing else that can be done and once decision has been made it s final. Daniel Davila Poker Support Team"

End this is it. As you can see they accused me of chip dumping second time. They dont listen to my agruments. First time I had short hu with Polish guy. I won with him about 600$ and they also took my money and give it to him. But it was small amount of money so I kept playing as long there was value on tables. If I knew that they are waiting till I win something big I wouldnt play there anymore. I m adding hands which proof that there could be no chipdumping. I would have to be ****** to play it like this if I want to transfer money from one account to another. What s more as I wrote in my first email I build up from 500 to 1500 then lost 1300$ and I did deposit to be able to play with him. It has no sense. And one more thing, people were losing money to TableMarshal15 and I was winning it from him. So he got profit from that game

https://gyazo.com/ec2f49336070625c8073079d788a877a
https://gyazo.com/1088956c61441b832c1dd1c323d5d16e
https://gyazo.com/43f7d4098816a6a669be06d05acdc61a
https://gyazo.com/a1f449d7a4a08051cd19cc97703fcc58
https://gyazo.com/ea77a48cc7aadef5053f3cce678a97f4

That sucks, hopefully you get that straightened out. I feel like that is the state of online poker when you play on sites like Carbon. As a US player we don't have many options, But you foreigners have many options why choose a shady site like Carbon?

My guess is Carbon is many times softer than the choices they have also I think the site has no bot detection.

Fristalo,
There is nothing in correspondence that you posted from Carbon that indicate Money was returned to "TableMarshall15"

If they concluded that chip dumping was going on then they would freeze both accounts - not just yours.

Hate to be the bearer of additional bad news, but Carbon is simply keeping your Money.

Your evidence against collusion is compelling. You are simply being robbed.

Sorry.

Fristalo -
Thank god you have HEM/PT!

You would be up ****z-creek if it was just your word against theirs.

Back up those Histories - and post as much evidence as possible.

Good Luck and don't give up!

Well this stinks like something rotten. It takes two to chip dump but the other guy got his money back. I think I've officially seen it all now.

"In regards to the balance transfer the funds have been credited back to the account of origin."

I think it means they give it back to TableMarshal15. It would be grate if he comes here and confirm it. Unfortunately it was some big fish, I dont think he reads 2+2 forum. This whole case is weird. Why would they take my money and give it to another player, they earn nothing on it. So they do think I was chip dumping, but I gave them so much evidence that it s impossible. So they want to ban one winning player and reward big looser or there are some braindead working in support team. There was one hand which looked like chip dumping, it was 3 max I 3b him on SB and he just jammed 101bb with AJo, I had AA. Maybe this one hand makes them think it was chip dumping. I add screen from this hand. You can see his stats. 32,6 is 3b BvB, 95% is cb, 20.2% 3b. He was very agressive player.

https://gyazo.com/671e1d265bf6e4527e859ffbef2b20bc

Maybe that player worked for carbon

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Oh I didnt think about that. It might be...

Has anybody seen that account in the games recently?

Ya think. With an avg $34 buyin for 209 tournaments in 2013/14. And a roi of minus 41%? Yea, maybe he worked for Carbon. Or he's just a poor LAG. Not unusual to see a >100BB allin shove in tournaments every day with worse hands than AJo. Don't play enough cash to speak to it.