Bodog or Carbon? Which is better?

Okay, I'm a US player trying to find a new home.
There may be other options and I'd appreciate you mentioning them but right now I'm considering...
bodog or Carbon. Which do you think is better, and why?

I play both cash games and tourneys but there is no way I'm depositing any money soon, so I'm looking for the best affiliate to download the software from. This means freerolls.

In addition to regularly scheduled freerolls, some affiliates offer exclusive weekly/monthly freerolls or satellite tournament tickets for downloading from their site.

Best so far for Carbon is Cardschat: $100 weekly freeroll.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I think all the merge sites have a few daily
free rolls, 200$ ia what I've seen. I havent
Noticed any monthly free roll tourneys though.
But I could just be missin them, as far as the
CC free rolls, j don't qualify for the free roll
club yet so I havnt really checked to see where
all they are held.

I got Carbon with rakebrain which is like 30% rakeback I believe, but I'm in the same boat as you - not making a deposit. Are there any good affiliate no-deposit offers for Bodog like extra freerolls as you mentioned?

psy0nyd3 said:

I got Carbon with rakebrain which is like 30% rakeback I believe, but I'm in the same boat as you - not making a deposit. Are there any good affiliate no-deposit offers for Bodog like extra freerolls as you mentioned?

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I know there are no-deposit offers for bodog. One that I saw was 10 dollars cash and a 11 dollar ticket to a 5000 guarantee tourney.

I like Bodog personally because you can also bet on sports with them... which, with the bonus you can use the money for sports wagers

d44ve said:

I know there are no-deposit offers for bodog. One that I saw was 10 dollars cash and a 11 dollar ticket to a 5000 guarantee tourney.

I like Bodog personally because you can also bet on sports with them... which, with the bonus you can use the money for sports wagers

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Can you get that offer directly from Bodog or do I have to dl from an affiliate?

You have to get it from an affiliate, at least I did.

^Hmm you don't remember the name of the affiliate?

Check your PM's

If you are doing freerolls, Carbon is the way to go, Bodog does not have a big selection. I just went on yesterday and did not see the 2 a day they used to offer, maybe they just don't run on weekends.
Also their cash games and stts are awesome, soft, easy to build a roll.
The Mtt sngs take forever to fill, although that might change now if it picks up traffic.

PooffyFooffy said:

If you are doing freerolls, Carbon is the way to go, Bodog does not have a big selection. I just went on yesterday and did not see the 2 a day they used to offer, maybe they just don't run on weekends.
Also their cash games and stts are awesome, soft, easy to build a roll.
The Mtt sngs take forever to fill, although that might change now if it picks up traffic.

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I would image that traffic is going to pick up a lot for them now that half the members of the other sites cant log in.

Is there much difference in the merge skins?
I've taken a look at carbon's site and unless
I'm missing a lot(very possible) it looked pretty
much the same as what I see on Lock

i like bodog...easy opponents..people tend to be pretty big fish on that site

i've never had a problem cashing out from bodog...

-the freerolls are tuff on carbon ... 2000+players for 24 prizes...sat tickts and top 4 get cash too

you can only 4 table on bodog ..and there are less sng options

I'm playing on Bodog and it's wretched. Stars software was top notch. I'm almost willing to rent a virtual desktop in an offshore data center and install Stars on it and play from there.

And that's how bad an experience it is playing on Bodog. (I do like their sports book, except that it crashed when I tried to put money on last year's KY Derby, and of course, my horse won earning me nothing but "sorry"....)

d44ve said:

I know there are no-deposit offers for bodog. One that I saw was 10 dollars cash and a 11 dollar ticket to a 5000 guarantee tourney.

I like Bodog personally because you can also bet on sports with them... which, with the bonus you can use the money for sports wagers

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Hi d44ve,

Can you PM me the affiliate too?

Thanks!

do you honestly think any site is a "wise" idea to put money on?....I sure don't.

Bodog is pretty good
But I prefer carbon poker because of the game play

Bodog sucks for Multitablers, only can play 4 games at a time

have any of you guys deposited on Carbon? and if so what method did you use?

volc90 said:

have any of you guys deposited on Carbon? and if so what method did you use?

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Carbon used to be fairly easy but that's changed recently. It used to be that you paid something like 2% fee to fund the account using your checking account but I think it's a bit harder now.

Bodog took me a good week to get any money into. And yes, they only allow 4 tables at a time. I also prefer the software of Carbon.

dcor said:

do you honestly think any site is a "wise" idea to put money on?....I sure don't.

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as long as you dont put your life savings on a site, just a small amount to play with, you cant go wrong. People wanna play online poker, so they have to take the risk of depositing.

KerouacsDog said:

as long as you dont put your life savings on a site, just a small amount to play with, you cant go wrong. People wanna play online poker, so they have to take the risk of depositing.

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+1. I'm going to pick a site and put 50 bucks on it. If things work out great. If the DOJ messes it up oh well, its the same money as going out to a movie.

you can actually cash out at BODOG. I have, and I was impressed with how fast they send you your money. And for me, it did not bounce! The software is laggy sometimes, not great. sometimes it freezes up on their end.......but what else is new!

PooffyFooffy said:

If you are doing freerolls, Carbon is the way to go, Bodog does not have a big selection. I just went on yesterday and did not see the 2 a day they used to offer, maybe they just don't run on weekends.
Also their cash games and stts are awesome, soft, easy to build a roll.
The Mtt sngs take forever to fill, although that might change now if it picks up traffic.

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This appears to be happening. There were over 10000 online last night, pretty much double traffic. And i played a $5, 45 player MTT SNG last night for probably the first time since Carbon began.

volc90 said:

have any of you guys deposited on Carbon? and if so what method did you use?

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I only have mastercard, and they are not accepting that... so i had to go to my walmart and get a prepaid visa card to deposit.