45% VIP Rakeback

Aced VIP Bonus Review

Aced makes their home on the Merge Gaming Network. The poker room is licensed in the EU by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority in Malta. Aced began accepting new U.S. players in November of 2011. RakeTracker players signing up at Aced will receive up to 47% VIP in addition to a 150% up to $150 sign-up bonus.

Players earn VIP rewards up to 47% in two separate ways: Cash Rebats and VIP Points exchanges. Cash Rebates are credited to player accounts as VIP Points are earned, according to status level. VIP Points, on the other hand, are exchanged by players for tournament entries or cash bonuses. The higher status level players achieve, the greater the rewards will be. In order to achieve the maximum return of 47% players must generate approximately $2,500 in rake during the month.

Players earn VIP Points according to the rake each player generates --10 VIP Points per $1 of rake or buy-in fees. Rake is based on the weighted contributed method of calculation, which allocates rake based on the percentage of the pot that each player contributes to.

The chart below details the number of VIP Points required to achieve each status level each month, the equivalent rake required and the value that the VIP program provides players in the form of cash rewards.

Aced VIP Program
Status	Qualification	VIP Point Exchanges	VIP Pt Exchange Rate	Cash Rebate	Total Return
Bronze	250 ($25)	$3/500	6%	6%	12%
Silver	750 ($75)	$7/1,000	7%	7.50%	15%
Gold	3,000 ($300)	$16/2,000	8%	10%	18%
Platinum	10,000 ($1,000)	$25/2,500	8.8%	15%	23.3%
Aced	25,000 ($2,500)	$60/5,000	10%	35%	45%

Do not use Aced Refer a Friend program when you sign up as it will prevent you from receiving rakeback.

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Aced Summary:

Aced joined the Merge Gaming Network in 2008 and is now operated by the same company that owns Carbon Poker. If you haven't paid attention to Merge Gaming over the last couple years, you may be surprised to learn that they are now a top 10 traffic site. U.S. players can also now play at Aced.

The software features some very unique attributes such as table accolades, rabbiting cards, the ability to show opponents only one of your cards and "Deal It Twice" tables. This provides players with a fun playing experience slightly different than other sites. Bad Beat Jackpot tables compromise much of the cash game action. At the Sit N Go tables traffic is healthy and at MTT, daily and weekly guaranteed tournaments such as the $50k weekly keep players coming back.

New players signing up through RakeTracker will receive lucrative perks when signing up through Aced. Players depositing on the site for the first time can take advantage of a 150% up to $750 sign-up bonus. Frequent players will enjoy the VIP program where they can earn up to 47% VIP through Cash Rebates and VIP Point exhanges, amoung other perks. The online poker room also offers special Bad Beat Jackpot tables with progressive prizes reaching well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. A Royal Flush bonus will award players a prize of 100x the big blind for being dealt the highest hand in poker.

Deposit and Withdrawal Methods
Method	US Option	Deposit	Withdrawal	Notes
checks	Yes	No	Yes	Fees are dependent on VIP status
Visa	Yes	Yes	No	Low Success Rate for US players
Click2pay	Yes	Yes	Yes	Existing accounts
Cash Transfer	Yes	Yes	No	Local Transfer
Neteller	No	Yes	Yes
Skrill (Moneybookers)	No	Yes	Yes
Click2pay	No	Yes	Yes
echeck	No	Yes	Yes
Visa	No	Yes	Yes
Mastercard	No	Yes	Yes
EcoCard	No	Yes	Yes
ClickandBuy	No	Yes	Yes
Paysafecard	No	Yes	No
Entropay	No	Yes	No
Instadebit	No	Yes	No
Giroypay	No	Yes	No
Netcents	No	Yes	No

Player to Player Transfers: Yes- available by clicking "cashier" and then "Transfer." Minimum transfer amount is $5.

Attributes:

Network:

Merge Gaming

Established:

2008

USA Accepted:

No

EU Licensed:

Yes

Jurisdiction:

Malta, Kahnawake

Public Company:

No

Operator:

Merge Network

Accounts on Multiple Skins:

Allowed, but you must be inactive on the 2nd account for 60 days to receive bonuses.

Restricted Countries:

Australia, France

Banned States:

District of Columbia, Kentucky, Louisana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Washington

Mobile Version:

No

Download Versions:

Windows, Mac

No Download Vers.:

No

Website Languages:

English

Email:

support@aced.com

Live Chat:

Yes- in client

Phone Help:

No

Aced VIP Help:

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Aced Software

Multi-tabling:

Unlimited

Features:

Resizable tables (616x488 min, full screen max), auto-rebuy, personalized seating, custom avatars, rabbit hunting, expose one card, accolades, animated smileys, many multi-table modes, time bank

Hands per hour:

62- NL Hold’em Full Ring, 78- NL Hold’em Shorthanded, 62- Fixed Limit Hold’em Full Ring, 78- Fixed Hold’em Shorthanded

Client Languages:

English

Mac Friendly Client:

Yes- dedicated download

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Aced Bonus Details

Bonus: 150% up to $750 + $25 Free During December
Referral Bonus Code:
Clear Rate: 75 VIPs per $1 of bonus money.

Earning VIPs Points: Players earn 10 VIP Points for each $1 in contributed rake or tournament buy-in fees generated.

Additional Terms: The Aced sign-up bonus releases in $5 increments for every 375 VIP Points. Players have 90 days to meet the terms of the sign-up bonus or it will expire. Depositing for other bonuses while part of the sign-up bonus is still pending will expire the sign-up bonus.

Aced Account Specific and Reload Bonuses

Aced offers periodic reload bonuses to players. The bonuses do not clear very fast but are worth depositing for if you are going to deposit anyway or just would like a little extra added to your return. Clearance rates for most of the reload bonuses are between 75 and 100 VIP Points per $1 of bonus money, the equivalent of 10%-13% in extra rakeback for players.

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Rakeback Equivalents -- Cash Games
Cash Games	Full Ring	Shorthanded
Sign-Up Bonus RB Equivalent	13.3%	13.3
Adds to VIP Program	13.3% (60.3% total)	13.3% (60.3% total)

Rakeback Equivalents -- Tournaments
Tournaments	Full Ring
Sign-Up Bonus RB Equivalent	13.3%
Adds to VIP Program	13.3% (60.3%)

Games

Aced and the Merge Gaming Network offer a wide variety of games on their site. Games include standards such as Hold'em, Omaha, Stud, as well as Draw games such as A-5, 2-7 Triple Draw and Badugi. If you're into mixed games, you'll be happy with the games available, which include HORSE, SHOE, RASH, HAR and HA.

Most of the games available on the site are at No Limit Hold'em, Fixed Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha tables. At the No Limit Hold'em up to $5/$10 with games starting at $0.02/$0.04. Much of the traffic on the site is at the shorthanded tables. Action at the Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha tables is less robust but players can find action up to $5/$10 during peaks times.

Omaha, the second most popular game at Aced, is available at in No Limit, Pot Lmit and Fixed bet limits at Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. Like most sites, Pot Limit Omaha is where most of the action is going to be. Players can frequently find action at these tables up to $2/$4 with games offered at $0.02/$0.04 to $50/$100. There is very little action at the higher limits, although these tables are popping up with more frequency as site traffic increases.

Cash game tables on the site are available in 2, 6 or 9 seats, whereas Stud tables are available in 8 seats. Aced has some very popular non-standard tables in the form of Bad Beat Jackpot and Deal it Twice tables. With Bad Beat tables, players who lose with Quad Sevens or higher will hit a very large progressive jackpot prize which can frequently reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tables are available at $0.50/$1.00-$5/$10. With Deal It Twice tables -- available at $0.50/$1.00 -- players can choose to have the turn and river cards "Dealed twice."

Hold'em
Hold'em	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
No Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$0.04-$50/$100	Up to $10/$20	Bad Beat, Deal It Twice
Pot Limit	2,6,9	$.05/$.10-$25/$50	Limited
Fixed Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$0.04-$50/$100	Up to $5/$10	Bad Beat

Omaha
Omaha	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
Pot Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$0.04-$500/$1000	Limited
Fixed Limit	9	$0.10/$0.20-$30/$60	Up to $2/$4

Omaha Hi/Lo
Omaha Hi/Lo	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
Pot Limit/No Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$0.04-$10/$25	Up to $0.50/$1.00
Fixed Limit	6,9	$0.10/$0.20-$25/$50	Limited

Hold'em
Hold'em	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
No Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$0.04-$50/$100	Up to $10/$20	Bad Beat, Deal It Twice
Pot Limit	2,6,9	$.05/$.10-$25/$50	Limited
Fixed Limit	2,6,9	$.02/$.04-$50/$100	Up to $5/$10	Bad Beat

Stud
Stud	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
Hi	8	$0.10/$0.20-$25/$50	Limited
Fixed Limit	8	$0.10/$0.20-$25/$50	Limited
Fixed Limit	8	$0.10/$0.20-$25/$50	Limited

Other Games: Pot Limit 7 Card Stud, Pot Limit 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, Pot Limit Razz, Limit 5 Card, Pot Limit 5 Card, Limit 5 Card Draw, Limit 2-7 Lowball, Pot Limit 2-7 Lowball, Limit A-5 Lowball, Pot Limit A-5 Lowball, Badugi, HORSE, HOSE, RASH, SHOE, HAR, HO, HA

Multi-Table Tournaments

Aced claims to offer over $3 million a month in guaranteed tournaments. Some of the more popular tournaments include a $30+$3 $10k tournament on Saturdays and a $10k held daily at 10 PM ET. The premier tournament on Aced is the Sunday $50k guaranteed held at 4 PM ET each week. On certain weeks, the guaranteed tournament moves up to $100,000. Satellites are available for the $100+$9 tournament starting at $11 or even via a freeroll. Players can buy-in directly to many Aced tournaments when using VIP Points at a rate of $0.01 per VIP Point.

Aced offers direct qualifiers to some of the largest live poker tournaments from around the world. Players can choose to qualify via a live event for as little as $2.20. Notable live events that Aced offers satellites to include the Aussie Millions, World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour and the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour.

The various types of MTTs offered on Carbon include standard offerings such as Deep Stacks, Rebuys, Turbo, Rebuy and Add-On, Shoot Outs and less standard tournaments such as Bounty and All In/Fold. Players can enter many of the tournaments through Late Registration.

A very nice feature of the tournament software is that players are able to see if EV that exists for tournaments that are running. This is done by double- clicking on a specific tournament in the lobby

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Aced Featured Tournaments
Name	Buy-in	When	Gtd.	Sat	Notes
Sunday $100k Gtd.	$100+$9	4 PM ET/20:00 GMT	$50k	Yes
Saturday $10k Gtd.	$30+$3	2 PM ET/18:00 GMT	$12.5k	Yes
Daily $10k Gtd.	$30+$3	10 PM ET/02:15 GMT Daily	$7k	Yes	Rebuy and Add-on

SNGs

Aced offers their Sit N Gos in a variety of games including various forms of Omaha and Hold’em; however, almost all running games will be found at No Limit Hold'em. During peak times, players should be able to find short-handed action up to $100+$9 and 10-seater action up to $20+$2. Tables are available all the way up to $5500+$80, so higher buy-in games will occasionally get going.

Double Up -- Double Up or Nothing as they are more commonly called --are quite popular on the Merge Network. Aced also offers Sit N Gos in Turbo and Bounty varieties. With Turbo contests, the blinds will go up every 4 minutes. Most standard SNGs will have levels going up every 7 minutes.

Sit N Go tournaments start with buy-ins as low as $0.60, called “Fast Fifty SnGs” and move all the way up to the $5500+$80 Turbo heads-up tables (not available for the faint of heart). All-in or Fold tournaments provide players with an interesting way to gamble with little skill involved. At the Aced SuperTurbo Sit N Gos, blinds increase every 3minutes.

Aced’s Bounty Tournaments, denoted with a green dollar sign, take a percentage of the prize pool as bounties on the heads of all players. This is often 50% of the total prize pool, but can be anywhere from 10%-100%.

Aced Rake Schedule

Aced Rake Schedule
# of players		2-3	4-5	6-10
Fixed Limit	Up to $1/$2	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)
Fixed Limit	$2/$4 and Up	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $2 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $3 max (5%)
No Limit	All games	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $2 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $3 max (5%)

Example: At a $1/$2 fixed limit Hold'em game with 6 players seated and dealt cards, $0.01 in rake would be taken for each $0.20 in the pot up to a total of $1 in rake. Once the pot reaches $20, no further rake is taken. "5%" represents the % of the pot that is raked from the table at the time the rake is taken. Because many pots do not end up being raked (i.e. if no flop is seen) or if the pot is in between rake levels, effective rake levels are lower.

VIP Points/Store

VIPs earned in real money cash games and tournaments can be used to purchase items in the store, enter regular SNGs or MTTs, or purchase cash bonuses if you are a VIP player. The value of a VIP Point when exchanging for cash or for tournaments is $0.01 per VIP Point (or the equivalent of 7% in rakeback). See VIP Program for additional details. If you are a VIP player, this is the way to go as the rate in the store is not nearly as good.

Aced VIP Store Sample Rates
Item	Points	Value
iPad 16 GB w/Wi-Fi	75,415	$ 0.0079
iPod Nano 16 GB	29,780	$ 0.0060
iPod Touch 32 GB	59,110	$ 0.0050

Aced VIP Program

Aced no longer offers rakeback to players, meaning that the reward system on the site is now the VIP program. Players can receive up to 47% through the program at the highest levels. Players can receive up to 35% from cash rebates and up to 12% from VIP Point exchanges. Players can use VIP Points to enter tournaments or receive cash at the exchange rate of their specific status level.

Additional perks of the VIP program include special bonus offers, birthday gifts, sidegame rebates, event invitiations and more. The chart below details the various VIP levels and the perks that players can receive at each of the respective VIP status levels

Aced VIP Program

Aced VIP Program
Status	Qualification	VIP Point Exchanges	VIP Pt Exchange Rate	Cash Rebate	Total Return
Bronze	250 ($25)	$3/500	6%	6%	12%
Silver	2,000 ($200)	$7/1,000	7%	7.50%	15%
Gold	5,000 ($500)	$15/2,000	8%	10%	18%
Platinum	10,000 ($1,000)	$25/2,500	11%	15%	26%
Aced	2,5000 ($2,500)	$60/5,000	12%	35%	47%

Aced VIP Program -- Additional Perks
Level	Weekly Freerolls	Birthday Coupon	Event Invitations	Check Withdrawals
Bronze	$750	$5.40	No	$20
Silver	$1,500	$11	No	$15
Gold	$2,000	$33	No	$10
Platinum	$2,500	$60	Yes	$5
Aced	$3,500	$109	Yes	Free

Bad Beat Jackpots

Bad Beat Jackpot Snapshot
Largest Seen Jackpot	Coming soon
Minimum Qualifying Hand	7777x
Jackpot Rake	$0.50
Jackpot %/Next Jackpot %/Admin fee %	70/20/10
Loser %	50%
Winner %	25%
Remaining Table %	25%

Bad Beat Jackpot tables are very popular at Aced Poker. Available at No Limit Hold'em tables of $0.50/$1.00-$5/$10 and $1/$2-$5/$10 at Fixed Limit Hold'em, players that lose with Quad Sevens or higher will hit the progressive Bad Beat Jackpot, with prize pools that frequently reach the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Upon hitting the Bad Beat Jackpot, 70% of the prize pool will be awarded to the table with 50% that amount (35% total) awarded to the loser of the hand, 25% to the winner and 25% split between the rest of the players.

The Merge Gaming jackpot is feed with a $0.50 jackpot drop from every pot in which there is a rake taken. In order to qualify for a Bad Beat Jackpot prize, the hand must meet certain conditions including:

• Both hands must contain both hole cards
• Both players must be active in the hand at the showdown
• Players sitting out will not be eligible for a prize

Royal Flush Bonus

Aced poker players who are dealt a Royal Flush on the site are awarded a prize of 100x the big blind up to $500. The hand must be dealt on a Texas Hold'em game and the player must use both hole cards to qualify for a prize. If you are lucky enough to hit this prize, you must make a claim to support@aced.com within 48 hours. Players must wait 10 days to withdraw the bonus once it is credited.

$20,000 Tournament King

Aced offers $20,000 in monthly leaderboards for multi-table tournament players. The leaderboards are divided into two based on buy-in size -- a high limit leaderboard and a low limit leaderboard. Players in the top 250 in each of the leaderboard will receive access to a special "Leaderboard Grand Final Tournament," held on the second Sunday of the month after the final leaderboard is posted. Leaderboard position is determined by a formula that takes into account buy-in cost, number of participants, final position and a final table bonus. Chip stack amounts will vary according to your position on the leaderboard.

High Limit Leaderboard (for players at buy-ins of $20 or more): Tournament will give away over $13,000 in prizes, split between the top 50 players. Top prize is $3,000

Low Limit Leaderboard (for players at buy-ins of $0-$19.99). Tournament will award $7,500 in prizes, split between the top 50 players. Top prize is $1,500.

Monthly SNG Leaderboard

Monthly SNG Leaderboards
Leaderboard	Total Prize	Winners Paid	Prize Range
SNG Monthly	$10,000	25	$100-$2000

Sit N go players on Aced can qualify for their share of $10,000 in cash prizes each month through the Monthly SNG leaderboard promotion. Sit N Go Leaderboard Points will be determined by a formula for each Sit N Go that takse into account finishing position, buy-in fee and a streak bonus. In addition to $10,000 in monthly prizes, players will be paid a "Streaker Bonus" that will award cash prizes to the players who won the most Sit N Gos in a row during the month.

Streak Bonus Prizes
Place	Prize
1st	$750
2nd	$500
3rd	$350
4th	$250
5th	$150

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