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Summary

Cake Poker is one of the rising stars in the online poker world. The Cake Network –with its flagship site Cake Poker—offers one of the best poker rakeback and bonus deals anywhere on the Internet.

Cake’s focus is on giving its players the best incentives, and to continue to expand their player base by bringing smaller sites into their ever-growing network. And the plan has worked out beautifully; Cake is currently ranked #10 by pokerscout.com in traffic with a 1,700 player 7-day average, and a 24-hour peak of 2,766 real-money players.

Cake is one of a handful of second-tier sites (Full Tilt and PokerStars being first-tier) that tries to keep up with the Joneses by continually updating their software and adding features: Cakes long-term outlook in the poker world is very bright.

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Cake Highlights

US Friendly: Cake Poker openly accepts US players

VIP Program: Cake has one of the nest VIP programs in the poker world: Players earn gold chips by playing at real-money tables. These gold chips can then be redeemed for merchandise, or for use in satellite tournaments. Good poker players can easily win their way into all of Cake’s big guarantee tournaments every week simply with their gold chips –something I have done numerous times.

Competition: The competition on Cake poker is similar to most online poker sites: a handful of really good players, some low limit grinders, and a ton of fish –one of the sites on the Cake Network is sportsbook.com, which means there will be a lot of gamblers at the poker tables.

Customer Support: Cake does a very good job with their customer service. In order to compete with the big boys, the entire site makes sure the player comes first. E-mails and calls are answered very promptly.

110% Deposit Bonus: Once again Cake Poker goes the extra mile to outdo its competitors, offering a 110% deposit bonus up to $600.

First-time Depositor’s Free-roll: When you first sign-up at Cake you will receive an entry into their new depositor’s $500 free-roll tournament.

$100K & $250k guaranteed tournaments: Cake poker offers a weekly $100k guaranteed tournament every Sunday, and on the last Sunday of each month Cake plays host to a $250k guaranteed tournament.

Software Features

Cake poker’s software features 3-dimensional players and dealers, with a variety of in-game options. Cake initially had some server and lag problems that would freeze their software, but over the past year or so they have worked extremely hard on fixing these problems. Now Cake offers one of the smoothest running software programs of any online poker room.

Cake’s software allows for:

• Re-sizable tables
• Choose any seat
• Synchronized breaks
• Two table options, simple and classic
• 3-D players
• Player ID change every 7-days
• Tournament and cash game filters
• Note taking option
• Statistics
• Hand History
• Multi-table maximum: 20 tables 

Games/Stakes Offered

Cake offers the usual suspects in terms of games at a number of different stakes. Generally Cake has games going at a variety of stakes around the clock; it’s not a low-limit site or a high-limit site. However, it’s unusual to find Omaha 8, 7-Stud, or 7-Stud hi/lo games going.

Cash Games Variants:

• Hold’ Em
• Omaha
• Omaha 8 or better
• 7-Card-Stud
• 7-Card-Stud hi/lo
   

Cake Poker’s cash games range from as low as $2 buy-ins, all the way up to $10,000.

Tournaments

Cake Poker has a very good selection of tournaments; in addition to the freeze-out format, Cake offers a lot of bounty and re-buy tournaments, and most of their tournaments have a guaranteed prize-pool. The best part of Cake’s guaranteed tournaments is they are available at just about every stakes: from lowly $2 tournaments all the way up to Cake’s $150k and $250k guaranteed tournament.

The format for Cake’s tournaments is also one of the better one’s in online poker. And Cake’s payout structure is also regarded as one of the best in the industry.

Sit & Go Tournaments

This is perhaps the highlight of Cake Poker: Their Sit & Go Tournaments are some of the loosest you will find anywhere on Internet. The structure favors solid, experienced, players, and as I said the players are very loose and willing to gamble early on.

Stakes range from $1 to $5,000, and players will find numerous formats available to them, including turbos, 6-max, shootouts, double or nothing, heads-up, super-turbos, and Kamikaze.

Cake also offers Gold Chip Sit & Go’s where the players are even worse, and you can accumulate tons of Gold Chips to use in Cake’s satellite tournaments to the $150k and $250k guarantee.

Promotions

• 110% deposit bonus up to $500
• Reload bonuses
• New players receive a free entry into the New Depositor’s Free-roll!
• $52,000 Jackpot race
• Cash Game players receive random Gold Cards which can be redeemed for prizes –anything from tournament entries to cash!
• Piece of the Pros: every weeknight at 7PM you can sit with professional poker players at $5/$10 and $10/$20 stakes. Recent pros include Doyle Brunson, Mike Caro, Ilari “ziigmund” Sahamies, Hoyt Corkins, Phil Laak, and Kenna James. Nowhere else can you play this level of pro for these stakes.

Deposit/Withdrawal Options

Cake offers its players a variety of deposit and withdrawal options including:

• Visa
• MasterCard
• eChecks
• Click2Pay
• Moneybookers
• Neteller

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