It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.

Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.

Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)

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PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration starts this November, the world’s largest online poker site celebrates 10 years with a huge promotion where players can win extra cash and prizes.

The PokerStars 10th Anniversary festival offers players a chance to win one of 100 PCA 2012 prize packages plus the biggest ever PokerStars Sunday Million tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million. Also running this month is the PokerStars 70 Billion Hands dealt promotion where players can win cash for being dealt into milestone hands.

PokerStars opened it’s doors in December 2001 and have earn the respect of the poker community with excellent support and they way they handled Black Friday.

PokerStars bonus code – STARS600

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In the ultimate poker showdown with Cake Poker vs Carbon Poker we compare the two online poker rooms to help you decide where to play poker online in the aftermath of Black Friday. The two USA poker sites are still accepting worldwide players including US players.

Both poker rooms are the flagships sites on their poker networks, CakePoker on the Cake Poker Network and CarbonPoker on the Merge Gaming Network.

While neither of the two sites can be compared to PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker, but they are still great alternative poker rooms where the recreational poker players can still play poker online for real money.

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Well it’s been a longtime since a Carbon Poker promotion has been announced probably since Black Friday, the latest promotion offers players Carbon Poker DOUBLE VIP Points when playing cash games, tournaments or SNG’s on Tuesdays and Thursdays in October 2011 or play Omaha poker games and earn double the regular amount of VIP points everyday in October.

The Carbon Poker 2X October promotion also features a Carbon Poker reload bonus code for a 75% bonus up to $375 for October 2011.

Carbon Poker US players are welcome to sign-up for new player accounts since the temporary USA player ban following Black Friday. New players get a 100% first deposit bonus up to a maximum of $600.

Carbon Poker coupon code – 600PK

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According to several reports online PokerStars is currently working on their own version of Full Tilt Poker’s patent pending Rush Poker software. Rush Poker is currently not available to online poker players since Full Tilt Poker shutdown on Black Friday. Formally known as the World Fastest Poker game, Rush Poker was available in cash game and tournament format and was one of the most popular poker variants FullTiltPoker introduced to the poker world.

Since Full Tilt Poker closed it’s doors the company is still currently awaiting for a decision from the AGCC regarding the future of the company, things are not looking good with recent DOJ accusations calling Full Tilt Poker a Ponzi Scheme. While Full Tilt Poker’s future is undecided, PokerStars look to gain more players by developing a PokerStars Rush Poker type of game.

Expect to see the release of this new adrenalin poker software within the next few months, obviously under a different name with hopefully even more improvements on the original idea of Rush Poker and possibly PokerStars Mobile.

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