LockPoker have officially left the merge gaming network today, and taken over the Cake Poker Network re-branding it to the Revolution Gaming Network.

Lock Poker is one of the most popular USA poker sites since Black Friday and claim to have 40% of merge gaming network’s traffic. With their departure from the merge network, it will be interesting to see how the traffic is affected over the next few weeks.

Revolution Gaming was formed by essentially splitting the biggest us poker network into two different networks, offering players faster cash outs and services. In retaliation merge network have reinstated rakeback offering players up to 35% on poker sites Carbon Poker and Aced.

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Lock Poker will be leaving the Merge Gaming Network at the end of May to start their own new poker network called Revolution Gaming. Lock Poker was one of the larger poker sites on Merge Gaming Network, which is also home to Carbon Poker and AcedPoker.

The USA poker site, Lock Poker decided to take action when Merge Gaming canceled their LockOps tournament series in April.

Lock Poker will be acquiring assets from the Cake Poker Network, to start out their new Revolution Gaming Network, which may turn out to be the best online poker site for US players. Even when Lock Poker were on Merge Gaming Network they ran their own independent cashier which offered players faster cashouts than most USA poker rooms including Merge Gaming sites.

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Carbon Poker have increased their weekly guaranteed tournament prize pool from $100k to $125k, to celebrate they have added a new weekly freeroll tournament where players win a seat to the Sunday tournament by simply earning 250 VIP points to qualify.

The top 125 players in the freeroll tournament all receive a free tournament coupon to the Sunday $125k guaranteed tournament worth $109.

Carbon Poker bonus code – 600PK

Get a 100% first deposit bonus up to $600, Carbon Poker minimum deposit is $10, US players welcome.

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Poker Maximus is a new online poker series with more than 70 tournaments and $1,500,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The tournament series is scheduled to take place from 4 – 25 March 2012 on the Merge Gaming Network which includes Carbon Poker and Aced Poker rooms.

Satellite tournaments are running now offering players a chance to win a seat to the 2012 Poker Maximus Series for as low as $0.55.

Sign-up for a free poker account and get a first deposit bonus when depositing at least $10.

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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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