Cake Poker.com Overview
is more than just a poker room, it is an independent network called CakePoker. This is one of the newer poker nets and it accepts US players. Cake Poker has been growing recently, and now ranks in the top-10 in terms of site traffic.
Cake Poker has recently stopped offering Stud Games. At this point in time they only offer Limit, Pot-Limit, and NL Texas Hold’em as well as Limit and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi and Omaha Hi/Lo. The Omaha games have seen a nice boost in traffic lately, with stakes up to $5/$10 seeing consistent action.
Cake Poker’s Sit & Go tournaments are fairly popular in relation to the average number of users connected. During the evening you should spot quite a few games running for every limit up to $50. Cake Poker’s most popular SnG tournaments are the shorthanded turbos, which are 6-max with 6 minute blind levels paying the top 2 places. They also offer heads-up, 10-max, and 2 table tournaments for every limit.
Tournaments at Cake Poker have really come a long way since their inception. At one time a few hundred people would be enrolled, but they now have several thousand. Tourney buy-ins range from $.25+$.10 up to $200+$15. Their daily $100+$9 has a $17,500 guaranteed prize pool. These are getting the more participation and, as long as Cake Poker keeps building up player interest, they should keep rising in the online poker world. They also have a handy “Freeroll” tab that, at last look, showed around 5 freeroll satellites running every day - always a crowd pleaser.
Cake Poker.com Software Interface/Usability
has a very well organized lobby making it 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-goes. You can also sort these by type and limit.
Cake Poker offers tables that are 10 player full ring and 6-max shorthanded. Recently, CakePoker added heads-up cash game tables, which have been a big hit. When you sit at a table, you can choose one of the built-in “real person” avatars that are available. If you happen to find avatars distracting you can 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. Cards are dealt faster and players are given less time to make decisions. This is good for getting more hands in but can take some time getting used to.
Hand histories are instantly available right at the table. In the upper left corner, you can click on ‘last hand’ to be presented with the last hand played. You can also sort through the previous hands you had played at the table. The hand history viewer is 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.
CakePoker Poker Room Action
has continued to grow with its support for American Players. Even during non-peak hours there can be 500+ active tables with nearly 3,000 players connected. These numbers are much higher on the weekend and during peak US times.
You will find most people playing micro to mid stakes No-limit Hold’em ($.20 up to $2). There were usually 4-5 tables running with games higher than $1 - $2, even some as far up as $10 - $20. This is a fairly good amount of traffic for high stakes games with a smaller player base. While Texas Hold’em is the most popular game, PLO has grown recently and there are multiple tables running all the way up to $5/$10.
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.
Cake Poker's Ease of Game, Ease of Making Money, Fish Rating
Being one of the few remaining sites still accepting US players, you can expect to be swimming with fish. Players at Cake Poker seemed fishier than other sites we’ve noticed in the recent 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!
CakePoker.com Bonus and Promotions
is currently offering a 110% deposit bonus up to $600! Make sure you use the links on this page to qualify and enter the Cake Poker Signup Code FTR when creating your account. This bonus is earned by playing real money ring games and tournaments, which will earn you FPPs.
Here is their 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.”
The bonus, which expires in 90 days, is released into your account in $10 increments. It states on their website that each FPP is worth $.06 towards your bonus. To take full advantage of the $600 bonus, you must earn 10,000 Frequent Player Points in 90 days. How fast this bonus is earned depends on the limits you play at, as the FPPs are generated much easier at higher stakes.
In comparison to a lot of other sites, Cake Poker does not have a wide variety of bonuses. But this does not mean that they do not have some great bonuses you can claim. Right now they have a live event where you can win your way, by playing satellites, to the English Poker Open!
Each prize pack includes a seat valued at $5,300 for the English Poker Open main event buy-in and $1,700 placed in your Cake Players account to help with travel expenses! There are some specifics about going through the lead up tournaments; you can check it out as well as other cool contests under “Promotions” on their website.
Noticeably absent from their promotions is a Bad Beat Jackpot, which virtually every other site has. But since those do not have very good odds anyway, nobody should really miss it.
Cake Poker also has loyalty reward promotions such as ‘Gold Card 500’ and ‘$20,000 Gold Chip Guarantee’. In the Gold Card 500, players earn as many gold cards as possible and the top 10 instantly win $500. Their Gold Chip Guarantees are immensely popular. These have prize pools up $20k and currently have the most people enrolled versus anything else on the site. Given the popularity of these tournaments, the site’s activity should keep rising steadily.
Check out their site for more bonuses like the ‘Freeroll into Millions’, the ‘$100,000 Gold Card Event’ and the ‘Gold Card Prize Hand’ for $2000.
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Cake Poker.com Customer and Technical Support
’s support desk was very professional and timely. We sent them a few e-mails and received answers within 30 minutes every time. They were very willing to explain anything about their site, especially the bonus and depositing options. If you need to contact their support, you can do so by e-mail.
Customer Care -
support@cakepoker.com
Security Inquiries & Reports -
security@cakepoker.com
Cashier Inquiries -
cashier@cakepoker.com
Marketing Inquiries -
marketing@cakepoker.com
Affiliate Inquiries -
affiliates@CakePoker.com
cake poker by tanglelegs on 23 Mar 2009
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