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Most high stakes poker games take place at Full Tilt Poker where pros like Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan battle for 6-figure pots on a consistent basis. However, there are a couple of other poker sites currently trying to create a high stakes scene at their online poker room too. One of these sites is Carbon Poker, and they’ve recently added some high stakes poker tables.

Carbon now offers limits of $200/$400 and $300/$600 for their poker players. Before this, the highest levels previously offered by Carbon Poker were only $50/$100, so this is quite a leap. Just imagine how much rakeback money you could earn yourself just by playing at Carbon’s $200/$400 and $300/$600 tables! Carbon offers 35% in rakeback to players who sign up through their rakeback deals.

There are already people playing on Carbon’s high stakes tables, and some players have won poker hands worth well over $100,000! If you are just an average poker player though, there will be no interest in these high stake games since the blinds are just too expensive. If this is unfortunately the case, there are still plenty of other poker games on offer at the numerous other Carbon stakes.

Carbon Poker offers micro stakes action where blinds are as low as $0.02/$0.04 while there are also lots of people playing at other blind levels. You won’t have much trouble finding a good holdem poker game at Carbon because the tables are so packed.

Besides being able to find a good game at anytime during the day, you can also sign up for the great online poker deals at Carbon. There is a Gridiron Grind promotion currently being offered where players get to earn extra money just for playing poker. When you collect VIP points in a cash game or poker tournaments, you will move closer to earning big money through Gridiron Grind.

Despite having success in its first five seasons, the super-popular poker show High Stakes Poker decided to make a big change by dropping the witty A.J. Benza from the commentator booth and replacing him with the sultry Kara Scott. When the move was made, people immediately started criticizing the Game Show Network producers who made the decision, and some online poker rooms even considered pulling their advertising.

Well it’s a good thing those Internet poker rooms didn’t make a hasty decision because High Stakes Poker’s ratings are actually up in Season 6. Amazingly they have climbed above Season 5′s target audience of ages 18 to 49 tuning in nearly 30 percent more! The poker sites that like to advertise their rakeback deals and services can be very happy with the growing popularity of Season 6.

The VP of Programming and Development at GSN, David Schiff, actually believes the improved ratings are a result of the participants themselves as he stated, “”We’re very gratified to see this season of High Stakes Poker performing so well among these important demographic groups, and we can attribute it to an especially strong player line-up this season. We have some of the biggest names in poker this season, including more international players, and the viewers are clearly responding to the outstanding game play.”

Some of the players Schiff is talking about include Patrik Antonius, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, David Benyamine, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, and Daniel Negreanu.

Getting back to the whole announcer switch, fans of the older format are still complaining that the chemistry between A.J. Benza and Gabe Kaplan is missing from the show. They don’t think that Kara Scott works as well with Gabe Kaplan in the booth. It’s hard though to disagree with the switch when the show has attracted nearly 30 percent more of the target audience they were aiming for.

If you don’t have time to join in with the debate and just want to enjoy a game of Internet Poker then why not take a look at Absolute Poker or perhaps Party Poker.