Why, you don't think they are capable of disabling the blackjack in the client?

Nevermind..

About 7 years ago I started with $200. It took me a few years but I worked it up to a nice little stash.

I have been away from online poker for a year or two now. I use to play at Paradise Poker but that disappeared for US players. I moved over to Absolute and Full Tilt but you know the story there. I have been considering creating an account at Carbon but am not sure if Carbon is my best choice. Also, rakeback use to be very good to me, is that an option for me. My play on cash tables is less than $0.50/$1 NL and on SNG or Tournaments $50 or less buyin. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.

P.S. Also the deposit/withdrawl method is important to me. I prefer not to have my bank acct tied to my poker acct. A good old mailed check is my preferred. If it takes a month or two, that's not a problem for me.

Where are the players at? The site says there are 1500 players, but I only count 287 that are playing cash, play money, freerolls, MTTs and SNGs. That is including the straight total of entries in tourneys not including players left in them. Also includes multitablers as a diffeent person at each table. Unless some other skin is running completely different games I don't see the 1500.

ACR mtt schedule is the biggest joke

I agree to extent. I used to play on Everleaf religiously before Black Friday when the network was infinitely smaller and well before the italians. They used to do if I remember correctly 5 $200-$250Gtds a day. They were all $2 and $5? rebuys With the same regulars everyday with about 30 players in each.

I agree, but failing that, at least take a proportional amount of rake out of the pots. Taking 11 cents out of a 20 cent pot, when it's heads up SB and BB with no raise, is just unbelievable. (They even take out rake when it's folded around to the BB. What happened to no flop, no drop?)

I have simply stopped playing at BBJ microstakes tables because a solid BB/100 is unsustainable unless you win the damn BBJ.

But, I also understand why they keep running those tables -- people play them. They have non-BBJ tables available, but half the time they're empty and all the BBJ tables are full. The reason the site is attractive (lots of terrible fish) is also the same reason why the BBJ tables are perpetuated (the fish don't realize they're a losing proposition). So, you take the good with the bad.

So I'd love for them to fix the BBJ problem but it's probably not going to happen.

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Originally Posted by Ponziani
"In regards to combat points, I'm currently a rakeback player, though it still shows that I'm accumulating combat points. If I decide to switch over, will the points be reset to 0?"

ACR Rep:
"No they won’t."


I'm a bit confused about this. Doesn't this then mean that we can accumulate up a lot of combat points while earning rb, then switch to the ranking system penalty-free and spend the combat points even though we've been getting rb?

what is the best way to deposit? wells fargo isnt allowing deposits. the only other card i have is a mastercard, which is not accepted.

Try western union then.

Alright this just happened to me 4 orbits in a row.. I'm in the BB and its SB vs BB and SB just limps at the BBJ table... Soooo annoying when a 20c pot turns into 9c.... what a disgrace. It's even worse when it happens to be a chop pot.

Hey guys, I just think that everyone should be aware of a risk they may face if you an American player wishing to cash out. I would highly recommend not cashing out using ACR's check option if its still available because about a month ago I did this and as soon as I deposited my check from ACR (I bank with Wells Fargo), my account was frozen because ACR sent me a check from a "closed account." I went to my neighborhood branch and they told me that I had a lifetime ban from them because this looked like highly fraudulent activity. I spoke to ACR and my bank and from what I can conclude that nothing can be done to fix this. Also high fees will be charged from the check not going through, but not having a bank account is a bit more costly. This is not an angry post or anything, I just want everyone here trying to still play online poker in the US to be wary that there are some shady things with ACR that can be quite inconvenient. Also, I'm sure this has been said a bunch but the Debit Card option is definitely the way to go with this site. The fees are worth avoiding any of this mess. But okay sorry for the long post. Good luck to all of you still playing.

Yeah, I have decided not to play in the BBJ tables anymore. I like this site a lot, but the BBJ-table rake is a disgrace.

What I really don't understand, though, is why people are so stupid as to limp in from the SB when it's heads up, knowing that over 50% of the pot is just going to disappear into thin air. The do it over and over and over. In every session I've had at a BBJ table, this has happened at least a dozen times. Do they seriously never look at the pot and realize that half the pot is going to the house?

First I have to say it is disappointing to see all these BBJ tables and secondly how on earth is it possible that there are at most 1 active $5 SH and 1 $5 FR table going? Where are the $10 6max non-BBJ games? All I see are HU, 4 max, and FR. Not impressed at all by the lack of "normal" tables, on a Saturday evening too.

Players that aren't capable of making this distinction are the kinds of players you want to play with imo.

I don't think 99% of the players on this site are capable of common sense. They are worse than the Italians on everleaf.

Ive also noticed that this site is the closest online site to a normal live game(6-8bb preflop raises etc)

Oh boy. I had wanted to do a withdrawal via check, though given this kind of risk I think I might have to look at other options. Thanks for the heads up.

Notice, I didn't say that I don't want to play against them. I was trying to figure out what the hell they are thinking.

I wouldn't bring it up in the chat and try to teach them poker, but I'm just thinking out loud in a poker forum.

I am skeptical of that story, because I don't see why his bank branch would shun him like a leper if a check bounced.

I can understand the check not clearing or whatever, but IMO the bank is not going to close out your account based on YOU receiving a bad check and trying to deposit it. Maybe if you are caught issuing bad checks, or something, that's another story, but just depositing a check? That's something I don't find very plausible.

I have no reason to make this story up but I guess just to make things clear...
Sending checks from a closed account is highly illegal in the United States and it might have just been an accident on ACR's part by not realizing they had done that. Because I received the check and deposited it, my bank considered me a "high risk" customer and permanently closed my account. I've been a loyal customer for several years with them but it's a violation of the Terms of Service of my bank. So just letting you know it is possible and Wells Fargo is a big banking company in the US so other big banks could have the same policy.

It depends on their interpretation of what you're doing. If you try to cash some personal check from a dude with insufficient funds, they'll just ping you $35 and call it a day. If you attempt to deposit a foreign check with insufficient funds, they'll inspect it further. If it's drawn on a closed account, that's a bit different than NSF because it cannot be anything but a fraudulent check. NSF is harder to determine what the writer's intentions were, thus more leeway.

That's not to say I believe the dude, but his story isn't impossible. I also don't think ACR is purposely drawing from a closed account. In this climate, it's very easy for a check to be drawn on a good account and that bank account get shut down before the check is deposited.

It is also very possible the bank knows the origin of the check (i.e., gambling) and they shut his account down for that reason and just told him it's because he's a high risk customer.

I think the reason many people are skeptical to believe you is because we've seen many new accounts (like yours) created just to complain/troll/shill about a room.

Can you show us the letter they sent you telling you they froze your account or anything like that?