I am about to sign up for carbon poker through raketherake with a deposit bonus of 150% up to $1000. But after looking at some details, the deposit bonus clears at $1 per 120 VIP points. But i remember someone talking about how they got rakeback and got to clear the deposit bonus at $1/50VIP. They waited for a couple days until carbon poker emails you with a $1/50VIP rate. Is this true or is there another way to get $1/50VIP?

Be prepared to wait 27+ days to receive your checks & deal with no traffic.

Please post what the Razz traffic is like during European evening times, ty.

Lets hope you don't play omaha.

Traffic at this moment at PLO:

1 table of 3/6 running with 3 players
1 table of .10/.25 running with 4 players
1 table of .05/.10 running with 4 players
1 table of .02/.04 running with 5 players

Yeh seriously, just sign up somewhere else. There are pleny of other places you can get a big sign up bonus.

There is virtually no razz traffic at all at any time.

I play 6max 50NL and their traffic is ok. Since I am American my options are limited if want to bonus whore. So it either merge, AB/UB, or cake poker. If I am neglecting a site with decent 6max traffic please tell me.

cliff notes: he said that I "claimed" to have the checks in 8 business days. Implying I would be that petty as to come on a poker bonus forum and lie about something this frivilous to the big picture as this is. I take that offensively. And I didn't call him an idiot for saying the traffic is low, I just stated that there were plenty of fish on the site. With all due respect you should read more carefully before you critisize the critisizer

Um, OK. I assumed you were calling him an idiot for one of the two things he posted. So you called him one because...???

I would recommend staying far away from Carbon. They didn't have much traffic to begin with, but at least payouts to my Neteller were processed quick. Lately their financial situation seems to have gotten much worse. I cashed out the tiny amount of 18$ two weeks ago, but the transaction has not been processed yet.

Combine that with the threads of ppl who all state that their cashouts take unreasonably long, and you have a clear warning sign - I'm convinced the site will go under in a few weeks. And then you can say goodbye to any funds you still have sitting there.

what proof do you have of carbon going belly up...other bigger sites have taken a long time for checks...lately cake poker. E wallet express has cashed out in about 3-4 days. I'd like proof beyond slow checks to think site is gonna close.

They don't have any. To me it seems like on 2+2, everyone likes to claim every site not named Full Tilt or Stars are corrupt. Other than checks, their cashout methods don't have any longer delay than most sites.

Many posts in this thread were deleted because SoPitteD broke the T&C of Carbon Poker as quoted below

Carbon Poker doesnt want their rakeback & propping percentages shared on forums, therefore 2+2 will respect their wishes since its in the T&C - http://www.carbonpoker.com/rakebackterms.html

I think its time that we clarify the rumors that get spread about "late" payments to US customers. When a company sends payment via check and it is received in a matter of days then usually that company is using a US payment processor that has found a sollution to provide checks via a US back, which is not compliant with UIGEA terms. This is a great risk for the poker site as well as for the processor. When a poker site delivers checks over a 3 week period chances are the poker site is using an out of country processor. Technically although it takes longer, the out of country processor is safer for both the network/site and the player alike.

I predict that in the future if UIGEA is fully implemented then probably all US facing sites will move 100% of their banking off-shore, which will likely mean 2-4 week processing times for all sites - but at least your money will be safe from processors who are flouting the law. Paitence is a virtue, waiting 3 weeks for your money may actually be your safest option in many, but not all scenarios. A company that makes a faster payout isn't more trustworthy, it just means the company is willing to take greater risks.

What about the non check payments like ewallets? those are slow as hell too,
i would very much like an explanation from carbon on this matter, for taking so long on this withdrawals too, i understand checks but ewallets cant be more than 5 days.

I don't know about that. How do sites like PS & Bodog do it to get checks to us so dang fast? I ask as a serious question as you appear to know what the heck is going on. PS takes 7 days on average while Bodog 3-4.

You may want to consider this thread... it's BBV, so it's entertainment oriented, but still doesn't reflect well on Carbon.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...upport-630218/

i guess imma have to go to AP

Good call. They are one trustworthy group.

PanchoStern: TwoPlusTwo is like Switzerland, we try our best to be impartial middle-men and instead allow the users to be the voice of the community and the industry whenever possible; since I know too much about how online poker sites payments occur it would not be in the best interest of the community or the poker industry in general to answer your question... some things are best left unsaid in life, and for the protection of players everywhere this is a good example of a time when saying nothing is better than saying something. The important thing to note is that:

1) different poker sites/skins/networks have different payout times because their goals are to protect the financial transfer process as much as possible. Some sites are willing to take a greater risk than others, its a business decision.
2) eventually most US facing sites will have the same problems in the event UIGEA rules are enacted.
3) Players are free to make choices about the networks they play on based on many reasons, including payout time frames - but they should not kid themselves into assuming a site is safer or more trustworthy just because payout time frames are faster... in reality the opposite may, or may not be true. I sugest making your poker site selection based on how much you trust the customer support staff, paired with the quality of the games while cross-evaluating player promotions to determine your best risk vs reward scenario, for each player that decision is very different, nobody can really tell you where the best place to play is - only you can make that decision for yourself.

I hope this little side-topic helps to empower you to make the best decision!

Thanks but my decision was made a while back regarding Carbon/Merge. My question was more along the lines of why is it that if Bodog can do it in 3-4 days, PS in 7 days it takes a whopping unreasonable (relatively speaking) 27 days or so on average for Merge to do what they do. In other words if I'm at Carbon I'm thinking what can my company do to be competitive with those sites in terms of speed. Like I said I don't understand the variables as to why on offshore deal makes with regards to speed of service. In any case thanks. Perhaps I'm just too dense to grasp this.

By the way I was not implying they were going under, were "shady" or anything like that. In my case the slower than mollasses upstream in the dead of winter, speed with which SNG tables fill up coupled with withdrawal time made it an easy choice. If I could fill up tables in time & get my check within 10 days I'd still be there.

are Carbon e wallet payments fast?

3-4 days for me but only did it twice.

They used to be, but i stopped playing there cause the std. withdrawl time to neteller got up to 14 working days which is imo extremely slow, especially knowing that they used to do it within 5 working days, and normally it would take around three days!