Carbon Poker - Version 1.0 The Merge Gaming Network was formed in early 2007 with Carbon Poker as its first member. Carbon Poker has a fairly interesting history. The management of Carbon Poker originally ran the Poker.com poker room. What happened was that the management of Poker.com ran into some marketing issues at live events. The problem was that the .com suffix was required to be obscured at many live events due to online gambling advertising restrictions. This presents a problem when the name of your poker room is Poker.com; cover the .com suffix and all you are left with is the word Poker. Putting the word Poker alone on posters and advertising material is fairly useless and no one would know what it was you wanted from them. In creating Carbon Poker, even if the .com suffix is missing in an advertisement, anyone running into the logo and name will know that it is an advertisement for a poker room and not some kind of artsy fartsy avant-garde statement.The software at Carbon Poker is quite excellent. The