Poker.com?? Whats the story...
 

I think i once played at poker.com after getting home from a party drunk and looking for some fun as sex with the dogg was outta the question.

Anyway I visit the site today and its some kinda fake "poker site" advertising for a few poker rooms (carbonpoker+ pacificpoker).

I look at carbon and is wondering about playing some drunk poker again today but I am not sure if this is a skin of poker.com or if my money is safe there knwing i once had a poker.com account.

I have forgotten my old account but just signed up to carbon (wow real nice brandname compared to poker.com lol)with my old info and got no warnings.

The software looks real nice.

Can anyone give me the story about this poker.com/carbonpoker.com BS?

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Thanks.

So it should be within the rules to create a carbon account as i dont have one (i have a poker.com account).

Hmmm not sure if im drunk enough to deposit because ruining the worlds best online poker brand is just sooooo stupid!

Links to pacificpoker and onlinepluspoker which is just a front for pacific.

This smells LOL.

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Another poster somewhere wrote that the Poker.Com domain had contracted with other poker sites to have advert links. Then when Poker.Com became the name of a poker site (and not just a linkpage), they apparently are honoring that committment on their homepage.

Have no idea if this is true but makes some sense. Poker.com is a real poker site that is apparently growing. I have never played there myself.

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Poker.com is a real poker site that is apparently growing.

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They (poker.com) dont accept any new players. But Carbonpoker does, which is poker.com...sorta..

And the advertising for other sites is obviously poor business practice [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Hi Everyone,

I've noticed a few questions pop up regarding the Poker.com website and CarbonPoker, so thought I would shed some light on the topic.

As far as Poker.com the online poker room is concerned, nothing has changed and it is business as normal.

Poker.com the website has changed to become a poker portal, but without online poker software of it's own. The Poker.com software will continue to operate as it has been for all existing players and your account will still be looked after by the same people (You just can't get rid of me).

The first brand from the newly created Merge Gaming Network has been launched - CarbonPoker.com. We are very excited about Carbon Poker. It will enable us to advertise in mainstream media, something that was unable to be done with the Poker.com brand. We will also be focusing on having a much larger presence at live tournament events and hope to see our players wearing our brand on televised feature tables.

As always all funds are 100% safe in your cashier account. From an operational perspective, nothing has changed behind the scenes and all the same staff are running the Merge Network. The Merge Network comprises of both the Poker.com software and CarbonPoker.com and many new brands will be added over the coming months.

We hope you are as excited about the new network and brand, plus all the extra players that we will be adding to the Merge network over the coming months. You will still have access to all your favourite staff and one of the tightest knit poker communities on the Internet.

Thanks for all of the good times we shared as Poker.com and we look forward to even better times ahead for all members of the Merge Gaming Network.

PS: If you are an existing Poker.com member and must uninstall the software for whatever reason, you can login to your player admin via www.pokercs.com and click the "Re-Download Software" link in the bottom left corner.

Thanks again!
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I thought I'd share something some players might not be aware of related to both poker.com and carbonpoker.com as brands.

Many events and large live tournaments, especially ones that are televised, have very specific rules regarding what can and can't be shown on promotional material and merchandise. For example at some you cannot show the word 'poker', at some you cannot show the 'com' part of a domain name. Doesn't take too long to figure out what the issue with poker.com is, we end up as a '.' So you can see how we might be missing out on publicity when we go to the effort of creating opportunities for players to attend these great events as prizes. While we love creating these opportunities it would be great to get something back for the investment in time and money.

So then comes 'sister' brand CarbonPoker which is all the same fantastic, dedicated staff, the same software and the same set of features, games and tournaments. It's easy to understand where the company and therefore our valued players will benefit from the addition of this new 'brand' ... it's a win win situation, more publicity from players sent to events so more and more players sent, more recognizable and marketable brand names, etc. I hope this one reason helps explain to you why the changes you've seen have happened and I hope you're all as excited as we are about what we expect to be an extremely positive step forward.

I'm around all weekend and will try to answer as many questions as possible (beats cleaning my house!!!).
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I think i once played at poker.com after getting home from a party drunk and looking for some fun.../[ QUOTE ]


I think Iam drunk from parting too, should I be at poker.com or is carbonpoker.com the rite sight? Please help..both will take my monies.

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I think i once played at poker.com after getting home from a party drunk and looking for some fun...

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I think Iam drunk from parting too, should I be at poker.com or is carbonpoker.com the rite sight? Please help..both will take my monies.

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They are essentially the same. If you have an account already at Poker.com, you can keep playing there and will be playing with both Poker.com and CarbonPoker players. If you do not already have an account, you will sign up for CarbonPoker, as Poker.com is no longer taking new customers.

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like i can remember that old account haha!