Cake Poker Review
Cake Poker - US friendly!
Cake Poker Network
Est. 2006
Licensed and registered in Curacao, N.V
Traffic: At peak times Cake Poker boasts over 4000 players.
Rakeback: Cake Poker does offer rakeback. To find out how you can receive 33% rakeback from Cake Poker, please visit No Bull Rakeback.
CakePoker has a solid rewards program in place:
Gold Cards:
CakePoker rewards their ring game players (at all real money tables) with Gold Cards which are redeemable for various Cake rewards including the Daily Lottery where Cake is giving away 50 WSOP prize packages from March thru June. You can also join the special tournaments held exclusively for Gold Card holders. Each Gold Card Series awards one lucky player a $52,000 Gold Card Jackpot!
Gold Chips:
Frequent Player Points (Gold Chips) are awarded for ring table and tournament play. Redeem your Gold Chips for entry into special tournaments or merchandise from the Cake Shop.
Cake Poker runs satellite tournaments to the WSOP.
Sign up bonus: 100% to $500 plus entry into the new depositor $500 freerolls.
Million Dollar Freeroll Series: Win a share of the million dollar prize pool in Cake's Million Dollar Freeroll Series. Qualify through freerolls, satellites or buy-in directly to the monthly $100,000 Main Events.
Table stakes: .01/.02 to $100/$200
Tournaments: Buy-ins from .25 to $2,000 high stakes events.
Games offered: Hold'em, Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo
Deposit/Withdrawal options:
NETELLER, ePassporte, moneybookers, Visa and MC, Check - minimum cashout is $50
Terms and Conditions: We have carefully reviewed Cake Poker's T&C's and find them player friendly.
Lobby
When you first open CakePoker's lobby you get a "news" pop-up where you can find the latest promotions and network news along with a link to Cake Support. The lobby is very user friendly, across the top you have links for Ring Games, Tournaments, Cashier, Rewards, My Account, Help and Options. Across the bottom you can see the next scheduled tournaments and the next freeroll. Your account information and the Cashier are all just a click away with no need to open a browser.
Options
You can choose your own avatar and whether to show or hide the avatars. Options include auto login, auto post blinds and auto muck. Choose the color of the deck and play with a four color deck if preferred. You can select whether you want to save your hand histories and for how long.
Conclusions
Tournaments and small/mid stakes cash games are available around the clock.
Cake Poker is a very good choice for low to mid stakes ring table players.
High stakes tournament players will be able to find decent action here.
For American players Cake is a nice alternative to Full Tilt and PokerStars.
Cake has a high number of British and European players so there's action 24/7.
Game play is smooth and the graphics are easy on the eyes.
Multi tabling is painless.
Cake runs satellites to major WSOP and WPT events including the WPT North American Championships.
Wrapping it up
Cake Poker is a busy site with lots of tournament and Sit 'n' Go action. Cake hosts leagues, charity tournaments and special events such as the "Bloody Battle" series on a regular basis. CakePoker is committed to serving the needs of their players as well as their affiliates.
Cake Poker Network
Est. 2006
Licensed and registered in Curacao, N.V
Traffic: At peak times Cake Poker boasts over 4000 players.
Rakeback: Cake Poker does offer rakeback. To find out how you can receive 33% rakeback from Cake Poker, please visit No Bull Rakeback.
CakePoker has a solid rewards program in place:
Gold Cards:
CakePoker rewards their ring game players (at all real money tables) with Gold Cards which are redeemable for various Cake rewards including the Daily Lottery where Cake is giving away 50 WSOP prize packages from March thru June. You can also join the special tournaments held exclusively for Gold Card holders. Each Gold Card Series awards one lucky player a $52,000 Gold Card Jackpot!
Gold Chips:
Frequent Player Points (Gold Chips) are awarded for ring table and tournament play. Redeem your Gold Chips for entry into special tournaments or merchandise from the Cake Shop.
Cake Poker runs satellite tournaments to the WSOP.
Sign up bonus: 100% to $500 plus entry into the new depositor $500 freerolls.
Million Dollar Freeroll Series: Win a share of the million dollar prize pool in Cake's Million Dollar Freeroll Series. Qualify through freerolls, satellites or buy-in directly to the monthly $100,000 Main Events.
Table stakes: .01/.02 to $100/$200
Tournaments: Buy-ins from .25 to $2,000 high stakes events.
Games offered: Hold'em, Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo
Deposit/Withdrawal options:
NETELLER, ePassporte, moneybookers, Visa and MC, Check - minimum cashout is $50
Terms and Conditions: We have carefully reviewed Cake Poker's T&C's and find them player friendly.
Lobby
When you first open CakePoker's lobby you get a "news" pop-up where you can find the latest promotions and network news along with a link to Cake Support. The lobby is very user friendly, across the top you have links for Ring Games, Tournaments, Cashier, Rewards, My Account, Help and Options. Across the bottom you can see the next scheduled tournaments and the next freeroll. Your account information and the Cashier are all just a click away with no need to open a browser.
Options
You can choose your own avatar and whether to show or hide the avatars. Options include auto login, auto post blinds and auto muck. Choose the color of the deck and play with a four color deck if preferred. You can select whether you want to save your hand histories and for how long.
Conclusions
Tournaments and small/mid stakes cash games are available around the clock.
Cake Poker is a very good choice for low to mid stakes ring table players.
High stakes tournament players will be able to find decent action here.
For American players Cake is a nice alternative to Full Tilt and PokerStars.
Cake has a high number of British and European players so there's action 24/7.
Game play is smooth and the graphics are easy on the eyes.
Multi tabling is painless.
Cake runs satellites to major WSOP and WPT events including the WPT North American Championships.
Wrapping it up
Cake Poker is a busy site with lots of tournament and Sit 'n' Go action. Cake hosts leagues, charity tournaments and special events such as the "Bloody Battle" series on a regular basis. CakePoker is committed to serving the needs of their players as well as their affiliates.
