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CakePoker.com at a Glance
Overall Rating:
3.2
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US Players: |
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Software Download Info: |
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Cake Poker Download |
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Network: |
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Cake Poker |
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Current # of Players (Sat May 17 2008, 06 AM): |
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1,208 |
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Multi-Tabling: |
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10 |
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Bonus:
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100% Initial Deposit Up to $500 - Use Bonus Code: FTR
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Minimum Deposit Amount: |
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$25 |
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Minimum Deposit Options: |
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Moneybookers: $25, Neteller: $25, ePassporte: $45, Electron: $50, MasterCard: $50, Visa: $50 |
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No Limit Ring Stakes: |
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$.10 - $.20 up to $10 - $20 |
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Limit Ring Stakes: |
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$.25 - $.50 up to $50 - $100 |
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Sit & Go Stakes: |
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$10 + $1 up to $200 + $8 |
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Player Points: |
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Yes |
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Nuts (Cool): |
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Nice deposit bonus, US friendly, great support, nice bonus, traffic growing. |
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Beats (Suck): |
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Not many customizable table options, play speed may be hard to get use to. |
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Cake Poker.com Review
is a part of their own independent network, CakePoker. This is one of the newer poker networks, and accepts US players. Although traffic is currently slim, expect to see growth with its many unique promotions in the near future.
Cake Poker offers the standard limit, pot-limit, and no-limit Hold’em, pot-limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, and 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, that you find at most poker rooms. However, with an average of only 200 active tables during the weekdays there were no Stud games running, and only two Omaha Hi tables. Most of the players connected are playing micro/mid-stake no-limit Texas Hold’em.
Cake Poker’s Sit & Go tournaments were fairly popular in relation to the average number of users connected. During the evening I always noticed quite a few games running for every limit up to $50. Cake Poker’s most popular SnG tournaments are their shorthanded turbos, which are 6max and 6 minute blind levels paying the top 2 places. They also offer heads up, 10 max, and 2 table tournaments for every limit.
Multi-table tournaments at Cake Poker do not have a very large player base as of now, but their guarantees are slowly growing. Most tournaments are in the $10 - $20 buyin range and usually have a field of 100-150 players. Cake Poker offers various daily and weekly guarantees from $750 ($5.5 buyin) up to $12,000 ($33 buyin). One of the most interesting tournaments Cake Poker offers is their bounty tournaments. If you were to register for a $10 bounty tournament, $5 of your buyin would go to the prize pool and the other $5 becomes your bounty. If you eliminate someone from the tournament, you receive their $5 bounty. The more people you eliminate, the more money you earn! This is fairly unique to online poker and would love to see more poker rooms add special tournaments like these.
While you are playing real money games at Cake Poker, you earn Frequent Player Points (FPPs). FPPs are used to release deposit and reload bonuses, and also to earn Gold Chips. Gold chips are earned by earning so many FPPs in a given month (One gold chip from 120 FPPs as low as 70, based on how often you play.) The more FPPs you earn, the easier it becomes to earn gold chips. With gold chips, you can enter special freerolls and tournaments, or purchase merchandise at the Cake Shop.
If you wish to deposit on , you have the following options available; Neteller, Visa/MasterCard, Moneybookers, and ePassporte.
CakePoker Lobby
CakePoker Texas Hold'em Table
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Cake Poker.com Software Interface/Usability
has a very well organized lobby making it very easy to find whichever game, tournament, or limit you are looking for. Near the top of the lobby, you can switch between ring and tournament games, and sort tables by any means. In the tournament tab, you will find all the regular, satellites, freerolls, and sit n gos. You can also sort these by type and limit.
The tables Cake Poker offers are 10 player full ring and 6-max shorthanded. They currently do not offer any heads up tables (except for heads up sngs). When you sit at a table, you can chose one of the built in “real person” avatars that they have available. I happen to find avatars like this distracting, and you can also disable them in the options. There is not much else you can do to customize tables, except for enabling a four color deck and showing bet amounts.
Play seemed much faster on Cake Poker than other poker rooms I have played it. Cards are dealt much faster and players are given less time to make decisions. This is good for getting more hands in but can take some time getting use to.
Hand histories are instantly available right at the table. In the upper left corner, you can click on last hand to be taken to the last hand played. You can also sort through the previous hands you had played at the table. One thing I did not like was the hand history viewer was in picture format, showing cards and actions on every street. Hand histories can be saved to your computer or requested via e-mail in text.
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CakePoker Poker Room Action
Because is a newer room/network, action is pretty limited. I found an average of about 200-300 tables active and about 1500-2000 players connected. I was informed via support that during peak times (evenings in EST) they see about an average of 3000 players connected, and this number has grown in the past few months.
You will find most people playing micro - mid stakes no-limit Hold’em ($.20 up to $2). Also, I noticed there was usually 4-5 tables running of games higher than $1 - $2, even as far up as $10 - $20. This is a fairly good amount of traffic for high stakes games with a smaller player base. Virtually no one at Cake Poker plays any other game besides Hold’em.
Because of their promotions (more on this below) and accepting US players, you can expect to see some nice numbers and more growth coming from Cake Poker in the near future.
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Cake Poker.com Customer and Technical Support
’s support desk was very professional and timely. I had sent them a few e-mails and received answered within 30 minutes every time. They were very willing to explain anything about their site, especially their bonus and depositing options. If you need to contact their support, you can do so by e-mail:
E-mail: support@cakepoker.com
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Cake Poker's Ease of Game, Ease of Making Money, Fish Rating
Being one of the remaining sites still accepting US players, you can expect Cake Poker to be swimming with fish. Players at Cake Poker seemed fishier than other sites I have noticed in the past. At the mid-stakes Hold’em level, expect to see a large number of whales at every table, making this a great poker room to try! |
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CakePoker.com Bonus and Promotions
is currently offering a 100% deposit bonus up to $500. This bonus is earned by playing real money ring games and tournaments, which will earn you FPPs. Here is a description as to how FPPs are earned:
“For each dollar that is raked at a table where you are dealt cards, you will earn one Frequent Player Point (FPP). We are accurate to the penny, so if your table was raked $1.25, you will receive 1.25 FPP or if your table was raked $3.00, you will receive 3 FPP. Also, for each dollar worth of tournament fees you pay, you’ll earn 7 Frequent Player Points (FPP) for them once you’re done in the tournament.”
This bonus is earned in increments of $10 and you have three months to complete it. As it states on their website, each FPP is worth $.06 towards your bonus. If you wanted to take advantage of the full $500, you would need to earn about 8,300 FPPs and you would earn $10 about every 160 FPPs. How fast this bonus is earned depends on the limits you play because FPPs are earned much easier at higher stakes.
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CakePoker.com User Reviews
Overall Rating:
3.2
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“Cake Poker Review” by givememyleg, 18 Apr 2007
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