Good news for US Players Carbon Poker will begin to accept new players within the next few days, Merge Gaming Network will re-open it’s doors to USA Poker players who will soon be able to register for a new poker account at online poker rooms Carbon Poker and Aced Poker.

Merge Gaming Network will officially be the largest US poker network again, despite the temporary block on accepting new US players for two months shortly after Black Friday.

CarbonPoker is the flag ship poker room on the Merge Gaming Network, players can get a bigger deposit bonus on AcedPoker one of the newer poker skin sharing the Merge Gaming Network.

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Bodog Poker will stop accepting US players in 2012, the latest news is that BodogPoker plan to leave the US market when their gaming license expires at the end of the year. Bodog is a UK based company who have recently been approved for a UK gambling license.

While Full Tilt Poker servers still remains closed to the entire World, the hearing to re-instate their gaming license has been further delayed until September 2011.

Carbon Poker has blocked sign-ups from new US Players, but will allow new sign-ups soon.

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USA Poker players will not be able to sign-up for a new Carbon Poker account over the next few weeks. Since Black Friday CarbonPoker and other Merge Network poker rooms have experienced a large sum of US players joining the network.

This temporary ban on USA players will not affect players who have already signed up, CarbonPoker are battling to cope with the amount of new players signing up, the network has gained a 76% increase in traffic within the first month following the poker room indictments.

CarbonPoker decision was made in the best interest of the players so they can still offer support and services to the thousands of new players who have signed up. Carbon Poker will continue to accept new USA Poker players after a 4-6 week waiting period while they find ways to best deal with the surge in poker traffic.

Update: Carbon Poker US players welcome – Merge Gaming have re-opened their doors for American players to sign-up and play poker online. Read our Ultimate showdown review with Cake Poker vs Carbon Poker.

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Looking for a new venue to play poker online? We review the best US Poker Rooms which are the alternate online poker rooms still accepting USA Poker players since Black Friday.

When searching for a new online poker site there are a few things to consider whether you looking for the site with the most fish, best support, best software features, biggest deposit bonus or best online poker tournaments.

Read the poker room reviews and download the poker software to start playing poker online.

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Online Poker Rooms have had significant changes in traffic since Black Friday, the top rooms who have recently blocked US poker players have dropped in traffic while those poker sites who still accept US players have increased.

While most American Poker players seem to have signed up to Carbon Poker on the Merge Gaming Network, which has had a major increase in traffic and are now ranking in the top 10.

While UB Poker have suffered a huge loss in traffic losing more than 3/4 of their players since Black Friday and other instabilities in the company which include dismissing 95% of their Costa Rica staff and all the Team UB Poker pros.

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