We all know what playing the lottery week in and week out leads to: a balding, beer-bellied man who has no hope for the future expect the microscopic chance that his Powerball number will finally come through in addition to the five numbers before it.  And the 50% ROI on all of the tickets he [...]

If you’re interested in making thousands of dollars aside from the cashes you get in Carbon Poker tournaments, then you’ll definitely love the Tourney King promotion at Carbon.  With the Tourney King promotion, Carbon will be giving $20,000 in extra cash prizes to tournament players each month.  What this means is that you could win [...]

With PlayStation 3’s and Xbox 360’s (both of which you can get in the Carbon Poker Store) becoming pretty common today, board games have become antiques.  About the only time anyone plays a board game is if they’re stuck at grandma’s for Christmas. But one board game that’s coming back into style at Carbon Poker [...]

Last week was a busy week for me by way of meetings and poker, but there are not too many interesting things to blog about. I played in the Commerce Guaranteed Million Dollar Tournament where they had 5 Day 1s and people could enter and cash up to five times. I entered Day 1A and [...]

CarbonPoker.com is looking and sounding pretty damn good, right? If you haven’t noticed, we’ve posted videos of Shannon all over the site hyping the virtues of the Carbon’s fine features. If you haven’t had a chance, take a look at some of the videos we’ve posted – they are a taste of the [...]

If you’ve gotten into online poker, you have done so for at least one of the following two reasons:
1. You want to get rich.
2. You want to get famous.
3. Spare me any garbage about how you got into online poker to simply have fun.
And while the money will always be there in internet poker, it’s [...]

A few weeks ago we announced a very exciting new partnership with actress and poker pro Shannon Elizabeth. You’ve had a chance to enjoy playing with Shannon, reading her blogs, and following her at the WSOP. And while that was fun, we’re keen to show you that’s just the beginning of what we [...]

So this was my first full week back home from the World Series. I love my house and dogs, but I’m kinda ready to go travel again. I’m thinking New York probably, but I’d love to have work somehow take me to Europe or India soon. It’s been too long since I’ve gotten to travel [...]

Shannon Elizabeth will be showing off her skills in a no-punches-pulled $500 Added Bounty Tournament tonight.  With $100 cash and an entry coupon to Sunday’s $50,000 Guaranteed ($109 value) as her bounty, Shannon (player name “ShannonElizabeth”) will be getting even more attention than she’s used to.
If her recent success at the World Series of Poker [...]

There are certain technology limitations that people can look back on with fondness. Playing video games on the 8-bit NES, carrying around clunky, radio-sized cell phones, and pre-HD TV’s are some of the things that people can laugh at when remembering the good ole days.
However, one thing that people definitely don’t look back on [...]