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i just opened the client and there are literally no guarantees on anything except i think 3 tourneys. ive never seen something like this in an online poker site and it looks like within a month most tournry players and probably some of the cash players due to loss of volume at the site will migrate. wait till you see it you will puke.

Eye exam needed if looking @ Carbon lobby. Just sayin...OK. Just saw you're not on Carbon.

Last edited by goodsaint; 10-01-2013 at 12:08 PM.

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10-01-2013 , 12:04 PM

#552

nyrugby

King of the Kiddie Pool

Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,357

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Originally Posted by Er4th1

They dropped the rake to 5% from 5.5%, and lowered the max rake taken from 6-10 (players seated) to $3 from $4. Also, the rake adjustments are for ALL stakes.

This is what it used to be:

Where did you see this? When I go to the Carbon client it still shows the higher rake.

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10-01-2013 , 12:06 PM

#553

nyrugby

King of the Kiddie Pool

Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,357

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Originally Posted by ih8ustfu

ah ok. im on sportsbook. there are only 3 guarantees left here that i can see, the high roller which has been dropped to 10k, a $100 tourney, and a 3.5k $10 tourney. i guess so long as carbon still has guarantees that should carry the other sites.

You may not have access to the same tourneys. I believe sportsbook is one of the skins that ring fenced their players.

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10-01-2013 , 12:07 PM

#554

beserious

adept

Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 971

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Originally Posted by p2 dog, p2

always cash ur points in asap at merge obv, this is ****ing unreal, havent looked into this but it doesnt sound good at all FML

I think the issue for some people is that they had a tier below the top one (Carbon/Aced), and decided to pass on doing the exchange at a lower rate, assuming they would hit the top tier in a future month. I did this for a few months when I didn't make it to the top tier.

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10-01-2013 , 12:17 PM

#555

LTT777

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,264

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Originally Posted by beserious

He is referring to people who have more than the amount to cash in at the highest tier. I.E. 40k, 60k, 80k, etc. Highest tier members who have less than 20k points or people striving for highest tier that have less than 20k should not have done anything differently obviously.

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10-01-2013 , 12:20 PM

#556

Sydney_Says

adept

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,111

So if we were on the sportsbook skin like playersonly is there no hope for playing guaranteed tourneys anymore? >.<

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10-01-2013 , 12:23 PM

#557

thadarkman78

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,314

You know one good advantage to all these guarantees is there is some sick overlay in the mornings from the early going. 33%+ overlays in the 2rs, over 50% overlay in a $5 hyper. I mean sure the prize pools are small but that is some sick value for sure.

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10-01-2013 , 12:30 PM

#558

Er4th1

enthusiast

Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 91

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Originally Posted by nyrugby

Where did you see this? When I go to the Carbon client it still shows the higher rake.

Player Admin > VIP Rewards (left column) > VIP Points & Rake

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10-01-2013 , 12:48 PM

#559

WONecks

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 379

looks like a pretty big overlay in the 11:00 AM $5 rebuy 1k

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10-01-2013 , 01:03 PM

#560

VISH MASTER

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 260

Wow.. 15% is worse than 888. Atleast 25% was decent.
And no one knows how much should 1 rake to get to 35% rakeback?
They screwed their VIP system. Now the traffic is gonna go down even further.
By invite only?? (gonna be rigged obv

). fml

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10-01-2013 , 01:08 PM

#561

ih8ustfu

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 664

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Originally Posted by Sydney_Says

So if we were on the sportsbook skin like playersonly is there no hope for playing guaranteed tourneys anymore? >.<

for now thats what it looks like. i just downloaded carbon and am going to deposit there. i just withdrew down to a couple hundred at sportsbook, i guess they dont care about poker anymore.

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10-01-2013 , 01:10 PM

#562

Sick_Call_Bro

stranger

Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 3

There is also no more 50 seats to the Big Ticket freeroll on Saturdays.

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10-01-2013 , 01:18 PM

#563

matt0216

grinder

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 421

**** Carbon.

Guess I should have played yesterday to get the extra 150 points i needed to do a 10k 25% exchange. Shouldn't have given them another opportunity to screw me.

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10-01-2013 , 01:22 PM

#564

G2thV

banned

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 74

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Originally Posted by ih8ustfu

for now thats what it looks like. i just downloaded carbon and am going to deposit there. i just withdrew down to a couple hundred at sportsbook, i guess they dont care about poker anymore.

Players Only & Bet on USA also, two guarantees, all day! (Is what I am seeing now)

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10-01-2013 , 01:31 PM

#565

feedthabeast

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 8,302

Lol oligopoly. They screw us so hard yet remain light years ahead of all the other networks for US players. I'd probably do the same if it were my company but f uuuuu Merge.

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10-01-2013 , 01:35 PM

#566

StackerBee

stranger

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 6

replies from support to me are no longer coming from support@carbonpoker but instead from support@pokercs.com hmmm

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10-01-2013 , 01:36 PM

#567

DrawNone

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 5,023

id like to play a private tournament on Carbon. its called "MCP-Jack Daniels SC League". does any1 have any idea what that stands for or who might sponsor it?

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10-01-2013 , 01:50 PM

#568

nickj7777

journeyman

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 379

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Originally Posted by Max Cut

Yes, I definitely agree on the points issue, given their prior history. It still would be the most blatant scumbag move made by them thus far, which is why I'm holding out hope for those players that banked points for whatever reason.

banked mine hoping to hit the top tier this month. have 91,000 locked up now at 15%. can anyone top it? lol

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10-01-2013 , 01:52 PM

#569

StackerBee

stranger

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 6

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Originally Posted by frankace12

no freerolls listed today anything happened?

finally a reply about them after having to ask twice lol

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The Freerolls were temporary removed as per management decision, we apologize for any inconvenience this might cause, all this feedback is being address to management to be considered, we hope to have them back soon, even though there is no estimated time frame for that.

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10-01-2013 , 02:01 PM

#570

beserious

adept

Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 971

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Originally Posted by LTT777

There are some people who have more than 20k points because they didn't want to cash in at the rate of a lower tier. For example, suppose you got 10k points for 4 straight months -- this would give you 40k pts, but keep you at the 2nd tier. It may make sense to not cash in these pts if you expect to get 20k pts in the next month to get the higher tier. It looks like this situation happened to nickj7777.

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10-01-2013 , 02:18 PM

#571

SantaCruz

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 4,161

CarbonRyan had encouraged players to save up their points for when they reached higher VIP levels. I think that it's becoming more and more clear that CarbonRyan quit in protest over these changes. His hands would have been tied as far as warning players that they were about to get screwed big time on their points.

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10-01-2013 , 02:18 PM

#572

catfan17

old hand

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,422

Anyone notice the new vip system?

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10-01-2013 , 02:21 PM

#573

nickj7777

journeyman

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 379

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Originally Posted by catfan17

Anyone notice the new vip system?

well done lol

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10-01-2013 , 02:31 PM

#574

SantaCruz

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 4,161

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Originally Posted by MichelleLee

Are we taking any wagers on how much of the VIP program is gone on October 1st?

And we thought he was crazy.

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10-01-2013 , 02:34 PM

#575

Max Cut

Guest

Posts: n/a

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Originally Posted by SantaCruz

And we thought he was crazy.

lol, but don't be results oriented. he cray

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