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After years of offering a Bad Beat Jackpot, Carbon Poker have decided to remove it from their tables and instead focus on regular ring games.

Carbon Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot offered some of the highest of its kind in the industry with the largest jackpot exceeding $1 million, but after review they have determined that its best to drop the bad-beat jackpot after the next time it hits.

The current CarbonPoker Bad Beat Jackpot stands at $346,370.00, to win the BBJ a player must be beaten holding at least four of a kind 7’s and a few other rules listed below.

For those who have been trying to take down this jackpot, this will be your last chance as CarbonRyan a Carbon Poker spokesperson wrote at TwoPlusTwo:

“We have made the decision, after some long analytical review of the BBJ Tables, to remove them completely.

Once the Jackpot goes off for the last time, the tables will shut down automatically within a few minutes. We will manually reimburse any BBJ rake paid between the time that the jackpot goes off and when the tables can be shutdown.

The 20% that would normally re-seed the next Jackpot will be spread amongst the players instead, making this ultimate Bad Beat Jackpot even more lucrative for the players involved now.

*It is currently over $313,000.

This change is to ensure a healthier poker room ecology, while providing players with a better ring game selection and increased players at the stakes the BBJ tables use to be.”

Carbon Poker Bonus Code – 600PK

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PokerStars are currently developing an extra game feature that would allow players who mutually agree to “Run it twice”. It may still be some time until we see the new game feature added to the PokerStars client as the feature is expected to be released on the test client sometime this month and then depending on its stability a decision will be reached whether to add it to the PokerStars main client or not.

The Run it Twice concept has been popularized by poker TV shows like Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker in order to run it twice two players need to be all-in prior to the river being dealt with both players agreeing to run the cards twice.

The missing part of the board is then dealt twice from the time when both heads-up players agreed, the pot is divided in half and awarded to the winning player of each board’s outcome.

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The long awaited question of when will Full Tilt Poker open has finally been answered, add 6th November 2012 to your calendar as the date that Full Tilt Poker will officially reopen and be ready for action once again as an online poker room.

Full Tilt Poker will this time however be under totally different management and all player balances will be restored except for US and regulated European regions.

The newly formed Full Tilt poker management team will be independent of PokerStars and based out of Dublin, Ireland meaning they will not follow the mould of Pokerstars in terms of promotions, marketing, and tournaments but will instead be left to create their own brand to compete with Poker Stars.

USA players will look to the DOJ to repay their outstanding balances and will no longer be permitted to play at the re-launched FullTilt site.

Players from France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Estonia and Denmark the European regulated regions will be assisted by their regulators with plans in place for those regions to allow transfers of Full Tilt Poker balances to a PokerStars account in the region.

Luckily for all players who were owed money by FullTiltPoker, PokerStars reached an agreement with the US DOJ that grants all Full Tilt Poker assets to PokerStars. Part of the agreement reached includes the payment of all Full Tilt Poker players worldwide within 90 days.

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Breaking News – Pokerstars Buys Full Tilt Poker, yes it’s finally official. PokerStars have acquired FullTiltPoker assets after reaching a deal with the Department of Justice which includes reimbursing players outside of the USA.

USA players funds will be handled and processed by the U.S. government, players from the rest of the world will have their funds available for withdrawal within 90 days.

PokerStars plan to relaunch the former number 2 poker site as a separate company and maintain segregated accounts ensuring players funds are available for withdrawal at all times.

Until now no official statement was released regarding the Pokerstars Rumor Full Tilt Poker Deal, a detailed PokerStars statement now features on the Full Tilt Poker homepage confirming all the rumors that Pokerstars Buys Full Tilt Poker deal is true.

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These days one feels pity towards American poker players as finding a decent poker room is becoming more and more of a daunting task, long gone are the days when Americans could safely play at PokerStars or FullTilt Poker both of which are now closed to the USA and sadly FullTilt to the world, at least for the time being.

The choices are very limited for Americans at the moment until legislation eventually gets approved if and when it ever does.

The DOJ is hot on the heels of many of these poker rooms still open to the USA and while many poker-rooms have succeed so far in getting around to paying their players it certainly is risky business.

USA Poker Players can still play at:

Merge – Carbon Poker or Aced Poker

Revolution Gaming – Lock Poker or Cake Poker

Bodog – Under the Bovada Poker label also has a Casino and Sports Betting.

Winning Poker Network – Americas Cardroom

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