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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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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We have compiled a summary of which online poker rooms offer instant play poker versions of their software; it covers most of the poker games we offer on our site.

Instant Play Poker provides users with an alternate version of the poker room client that requires no download and permits them to play directly from a browser.

The main advantage of poker instant play software is that it supports far more operating systems than the standard poker client usually allows. Instant Play poker is playable from Mac’s, Linux and all versions of Windows OS directly from the player’s favorite browser.

There are some disadvantages of playing instant play poker in that usually the game lacks certain features found in the full downloadable client versions of the software.

Due to the recent surge in popularity of poker mobile apps, we have included mobile poker apps to the list too, we believe in time the mobile poker app market will become a major player in the poker industry especially seeing that latest smart phones with Android OS / IPhone OS can run flash based poker games.

Several poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker have already identified this ever increasing mobile poker trend and are getting in early on the poker mobile action with the launch of their Rush Full Tilt Poker mobile app, but others like PokerStars are sadly left behind. Come on PokerStars get your act together, where is your PokerStars Mobile game or even a PokerStars instant play version?

Portability and accessibility are the major driving forces behind the demand but on the other hand playability seems somewhat dampered at this early stage.
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Bodog Poker offer two freerolls daily, each bodog poker freeroll offers a $500 prize pot, they are totally free to enter however rebuy and add-on options exist for an additional $1.

Players begin with 1000 in tournament chips which are given to everyone at the start of the freeroll, rebuys can be made by any player with 1000 in chips or less for $1 which adds an extra 1500 in tournament chips to your stack.

The rebuy period lasts for 60 minutes after which time players can increase their stack sizes by purchasing an additional add-on regardless of their current chip stack size at a cost of $1 for 2000 tournament chips during the first 5 minute break.

The twice daily freeroll tournaments at Bodog poker are scheduled to begin at 2:40pm ET and 9:40pm ET, in the event that the total amount of rebuys + addon’s exceeds $500, Bodog Poker will add the additional money to the prize pool.

Bodog Poker Bonus – 100% deposit bonus up $1000 – no bonus code needed

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Bodog Poker Open V Championship Series takes place between 26th September  – 3rd October 2010. The online poker series features two different series the Championship Series and the Contender Series which have more than $300,000 in guaranteed prize pools.

BodogPoker satellite tournaments are running daily where players can win a seat into the event at a fraction of the Buy-in.

Bodog Poker Bonus – 110% first deposit bonus up $1,100

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