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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The Carbon Poker Bad Beat Jackpot continues to grow as it patiently waits for players to lose to some sick bad beat. To qualify for the jackpot prize players must play the Bad Beat Poker tables on CarbonPoker and lose a hand with Quad 7’s or higher.

Use the Carbon Poker reload bonus code this July and get a 70% reload bonus up to $350. Good news carbon poker us players can sign-up for new accounts within the next two weeks, no date is set in stone yet but probably be end of July. This also applies to other merge poker us players rooms like Aced Poker.

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It comes as no big surprise that the remaining poker rooms are all trying to take a massive chunk from Full Tilt Poker’s loyal players by offering huge incentives for these players to join their rooms, seeing that Full Tilt Poker will be out of business for at least a month until they may reopen after a hearing with the AGCC scheduled for July 26th 2011.

Even the most loyal of FullTilt players must be steaming mad with this latest closure which will no doubt put Full Tilt in a rather bad spot even if they were to reopen and pay out all the outstanding balances owed. Most hope that this recent closure is only temporary but regardless gross damage has been done to their reputation and one wonders if they can ever restore their once so famous brand name. UB is pretty much dead since the last round of casualties, perhaps next in line in FullTilt.

Full Tilt Poker alternate poker rooms with some rather special sign up incentives recently released include 888 Poker, PokerStars and Titan Poker. The funny part is most of their emails start off with due to the recent news of Full Tilt Poker closing or something to that effect, none the less FullTilt have to a large extent brought this upon themselves and I guess it’s all fair play in this already competitive environment where each poker room’s goal is to get a higher share of the online poker market even at the expense of the now crippled FullTiltPoker.

We have compiled a list of special poker bonus codes some rooms are now offering to get your action in the wake of Full Tilt’s latest worldwide closure.

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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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