Carbon Poker Live Team – Sliekas
Posted by CarbonPoker on 29th September 2008

Hi, Hello all. Today I have the pleasure if introducing you to one of our representative players. The lucky albeit skillful player will be representing Carbon Poker at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne later this year. Sliekas won the recent Live Seat Grand Final and a $15,000 dollar package to the Aussie Millions.

Name: Sliekas
Country: USA
Years Playing Poker: Began learning 5 years ago
Best Achievement: Winning Live Seat Grand Final and 3rd Live Seat Package
Sliekas has also represented Carbon at the WSOP Main Event in 2006 where he unfortunately busted early on in day 2. He has also won several tournaments at his local casino including a $1500 first place prize.

Congratulations Sliekas, I hope you enjoy Australia and the Aussie Millions.

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WSOPE
Posted by CarbonPoker on 29th September 2008

If James Bond were hosting a poker tournament it may look like the World Series of Poker Europe – the words that WSOP commissioner Jeffrey Pollack used to describe the Worlds Series of Poker Europe certainly held up at the 2008 WSOPE with the cream of the crop turning out for the Main Event. Pros filled the 362 man field, bringing with them the best of the action on offer.

Daniel Negreanu managed to form a substantial chip lead by the end of day 2 sitting tidy on 154,000. Picking up a big win early on with an excellent read – Lars Hougaard raised Negreanu on a flop of 9,8,6 with Negreanu re-raising enough to force him all in.

Negreanu commented “You have a pair and a straight draw? Okay, so you hit your miracle flop and have to fold?”, to which Hougaard responded, “Seems like it”, as he did just that.

Other noticeable bust outs were Gus Haansen and Juan Carlos Mortensen. The action continues tomorrow with a field of 97 playing on.

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Live Seat Grand Final Winners
Posted by CarbonPoker on 21st September 2008

Congratulations to all who placed well in the Live Seat Grand Final, and extra congratulations must go to the three seat winners – Sliekas, gunnner7 and 2fast443allin. Sliekas, your off to the Aussie Millions in January with a task of winning the $10,000 main event. Gunnner and 2fast, a little less pressure youve both got entry into the $2000 main event at the Poker News Cup to be held in little under a month at Melbourne’s famed Crown Casino.

The Live Seat Grand final was a considerable success with 127 loyal poker players showing up and creating a prize pool over $30,000. Running for a lengthy four and a half hours, there was both periods of intense action and some chilled hands mixed in.

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves and all of you who managed to pick up the minor cash prizes enjoy them too.

Best of luck, till next time.

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Poker News Cup!
Posted by CarbonPoker on 19th September 2008

The Poker News Cup will see one of the biggest Carbon Poker teams ever at a live event with tomorrows Live Seat Grand Final offering multiple seats to the Poker News Cup, and a massive first place to the Aussie Millions. Joining the winners in tomorrows event will be another five Carbon players also heading down under for the tournament.

Every Carbon Poker Player who goes to the Poker News cup in Sydney, Australia, will not only get buy in to the event and accommodation, but a personal Carbon Poker player host and the chance to experience the sights and sounds of Sydney. Also included is a Carbon Poker Player Pack stocked full of stylish merch that will have you feeling every bit the poker pro.

Congratulations and best of luck to all players in tomorrows Live Seat Grand Final

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Bill Frank Vs UIGEA – Round 2
Posted by CarbonPoker on 17th September 2008

US Congressman Barney Frank’s second attempt at bringing some clarification and restriction to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has gone considerably better than his first. The new bill from Frank managed to pass its first hurdle; a vote by the Financial Services Committee. Next step in the process is to go to the house floor for open discussion. The UIGEA is an act that prohibits unlawful online gambling which includes all poker, sportsbetting and casino games. The problem with the issue is first – it blatanlty fails to define what even constitutes unlawful gambling, and secondly forces the countries banking system to be used as law enforcement.

The big argument speadheaded by the Poker Players Alliance is that Poker is not unlawful gambling as it is a game based upon skill not just odds. Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato and Poker Players Alliance chairman commented on on the motion saying, “The PPA is pleased that the House Financial Services Committee today recognized the need to provide necessary clarification to what constitutes ‘unlawful internet gambling’. Good news for all you US players!

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A Carbon Poker Blog Wordle!
Posted by CarbonPoker on 15th September 2008

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Live Seat Season
Posted by CarbonPoker on 14th September 2008

We have stacks of excellent poker players here at Carbon and many of these players would kill for the opportunity to put their skills to the test in a real live professional poker tournament. We believe in supporting our players and thus have devised a way of sending as many as we can to live seat tournaments around the world.

Starting in October we are introducing a Multi Table Tournament Leaderboard. Each month the top 100 players will play off for a live seat. Some of the seats on offer each month include the WSOP, WPT, EPT, APPT, Aussie Millions and PokerNews Cup. Keep your eyes peeled for more about this soon.

Furthermore in less than a week the Live Seat Grand final takes place. This massive guaranteed event will most likely see a handful of Carbon Poker players heading to Melbourne to play in the PokerNews Cup. Each lucky player will not only get to play in the main event but also get to experience the sights and sounds of Melbourne and will receive a cool player pack loaded with merch.

Also don’t forget one extra lucky player will be jetting off to the southern hemispheres largest poker event – the Aussie millions . Best of luck on the 20th ladies and gents.

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Required Reading
Posted by CarbonPoker on 10th September 2008

I got sent an interesting article authored by Daniel ‘kid Poker’ Negreanu the other day.
Titled Top players have advantage in deep-stack games, the article argued that many players fail to take into consideration the difference in preflop play in deepstack trounaments compared to small ball poker.

Small ball poker he defines as characterized by low preflop raises and restrained betting on the flop, which is a large portion of the action that is played on Carbon. Arguing that deep stack cash games should invoke a different preflop strategy such as increasing both the size of preflop raises and the size of bets on the flop. Its a good read and i recommend it to every player on this site. Check it out here

Another article I had the chance to read was on Pokernews about Poker and Pop Culture. The first in a series of columns that will look at the ever-changing position poker has occupied in American popular culture, the article details the origins of highstakes poker back to the infamous game between pro Johnny Moss and banking tycoon Nick Dandalos at Binions Horseshoe in 1951.

Binions was the first casino to raise the stakes of many games. When other houses were offering a max limit of $50 for craps, Binions set it at $500. The game articualtley positioned near the casino entrance drew hundreds of spectators and its argued to have an impact lasting several decades. Not really that astounding when some of the pots were reaching half a million dollars.
Read the article at pokernews.com

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Join us on Facebook!
Posted by CarbonPoker on 8th September 2008

Remember those games at your high school fair where they had the massive jars full of jelly beans and you had to guess how many were in it and the closest guess won? Well we’re taking a page out of whoever wrote that book and doing the same thing. However we don’t have a massive jar full of jelly beans…what we do have on the other hand is a massive Bad Beat jackpot.

To introduce our foray into the world of social networking we are holding a competition similar to the jar of jelly beans. On our newly created facebook page – located here, there is a competition where you can try and guess the amount at which the bad beat goes off. If you win, you get credited with $100 into your player account no strings attached. So go to the facebook page and become a fan, (I know you have it! Dont act like your too cool for social networking sites!!!) and have a crack at the Bad Beat Jackpot competition.

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Partouche Poker Tour
Posted by CarbonPoker on 7th September 2008

The poker calendar is lighting up with a number of smaller tournaments lately. Macau has come and gone; twice now to be exact but Cannes is where its at. The Partouche Poker Tour Main Event day 3 took place yesterday and the smaller event did not deter the pros with superstars Gus Hansen & Scotty Nguyen amongst the big names turning out to enjoy the south of France.
Day 3 produced some lively poker despite running into the late hours of the morning. Play of the day has to go to Hansen who miraculously busted out just short of the final table. Stephane Bazin raised pre-flop and Hansen followed with a substantial reraise, Bazin forced his stack and push all in putting the pressure back on Hansen. Not one to back down Hansen took his time and debated the call openly with Bazin and other table members before finally declaring; “I have a piece of sh*t… but I think you have a piece of sh*t, too,” as he made the call.

Bazin tabled AK to Hansen’s A6 suited.
The flop: 3 5 Q – mixed suits – no help to Hansen
The Turn: 8
The River: A

With no possible flush, the hand crippled Hansen who moved all in with his remaining chips next hand with the A6 suited only to run up against AQ, not catching any luck Hansen joined fellow pros Scotty Nguyen and Noah Schwartz in the stands.

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