just finished a long sesh, damn tables are different now than pre-black friday.

also where is bubase? and therealril?

Can anyone post the contact to request an invitation to play on Merge?

So is the general consensus that RPM is the best skin? I want to get some money on there but in the past whenever I sign up for something I find out I screwed myself by not picking the best deal. Also, I thought you didn't need an affiliate at Carbon/RPM? If there are affiliates, what are good ones and how do you get in touch w/ them

The best short term deal is with 'the Nuts' and 'Lock Poker' almost 100% rakeback for the first $1000 in rake.

Otherwise if you post in the rb forum I'm sure someone will be able to offer you a 50-60% rb deal if you rake in a decent amount every month.

Same boat as you, BWillie. I have been looking at affiliates all day trying to see if there is a reason to use one with RPM. For us microstakes guys, it is looking to me that we would not have a MGR high enough to really take advantage of most of what the affiliates offer above what you can get directly. But, as you said, I don't want to screw myself. I am sure we all have ambitions to keep moving up and that means eventually that MGR will be there. For RPM, though, all I really see is a rake race on a couple and nothing on others. Seems like RPM already has several good promotions without the affiliates. Carbon affiliates have a couple of extra promos, but again MGR is probably too low to take advantage.

Thoughts?

Without a doubt. Their promos are fun and no Merge skin (or any other site, for that matter) touches their support.

OK who is DOJroi3Birrion?

what is your sn?

Preet Bharaha

So RPM has BBJ and better rakeback than FTP/PS? Does that mean the rake is higher? Also have no idea how to put money on this bad boy.

it's contributed rakeback. and the room was smaller too. also the bbj rake is really high. it starts at 100nl and i think works out to 3bb/100 at 100nl and 1.5bb/100 at 200nl.

it's 50 cents out of any pot greater than $5.

pretty funny how many regs haven't figured out autoreby to 100bb's yet

Whaat, they have a bad beat jackpot at all tables after 100NL? Bla that sucks. I don't care about the poker lottery.

no not all of them are BBJ tables, you can start reg. tables also

Huge thanks on this. I couldn't figure out why the HUD wouldn't pop up. I put a hundo on Carbon, I don't like the software at all but hey, at least I can play some.

Haven't read the entire thread. How are U.S. players getting money on Carbon? I was thinking about creating an eWalletXpress account. I heard a lot of people cannot use their debit cards anymore.

pm people about this.

Who?

If someone can PM me that'd be great. I'm totally lost.

email the support team on the site.

This article is a really good read.

http://www.dragthebar.com/poker-blog...jump-post-1263

It also makes a very important point about the remaining companies servicing the US (like the Merge network) in the Conclusion.

"I also feel better knowing that the remaining US sites do not, and have not offered e-checks or other types of instant ACH transfers, since it seems very likely that is what made this happen."

Can anyone who plays on Merge verify this?

yeah echecks is definately not an option for Merge.

not sure if it has been mentioned but if people are signing up for accounts we should get a referral thing going that we can all split. if we get enough people we can be making a good amount of extra money.

I've heard on Cake you can change your sn whenever you want? That might come in handy. Play 1K hands, change your sn. Nobody knows your a reg.

Got my HUD working last night. See you guys tonight