Cake Poker Software

The software at Cake Poker is shared by all members of the Cake Gaming Network. Players are represented by avatars depicting various men and women and luckily can be switched off as it gets quite confusing where actual players are located. The table is a faded green with the Cake Poker logo on it, trimmed in a leather-looking edge. The chairs are arranged around the table on a tile floor with red-curtain background. Players can be represented by the avatars or simple placards at the player's choosing. Four color deck with 6 different card backs are available. Players have a note-taking function [with auto-wrap feature] with player "tagging" function built in and both a statistics screen and hand histories are available at a click of the mouse.

The cash game menu has Players Seeing the flop percentages as well as Average Pot and Hands Per Hour information allowing players the opportunity to play and filter tables by any of these methods. Their are many filters available so that players can pick NL, FL or even Omaha or 7-Stud by making a few easy clicks.

The tournament menu is as equally manipulated as the cash game menu and has filters for just about everything a tournament or SnG player could. Some of the bigger sites could learn a thing or two from the easy of use that the menus at Cake Poker provide.

Despite all of the nice features at Cake Poker, their software has serious problems. Frequent disconnects have been experienced by their players. The software is resource-intensive and on days where Cake Poker has 3,000 players or more, players can experience play-lag and frozen screens occuring during every hand.

Cake Poker Traffic

Cake Poker shares it's traffic with other members of the Cake Gaming Network. The traffic is quite low currently with 1500-2000 players online at peak hours. Traffic doesn't improve significantly on weekends. Players will find most traffic in their low buy-in MTTs as well as in NL cash games.

Cake Poker Games

Cake Poker offers a variety of games for their players to choose from. Cash games, tournaments and SnGs are all available.

Cake Poker offers Texas Holdem in NL, PL and Fixed Limit varieties. Although they offer FL in stakes ranging from $0.25/$0.50 to $50/$100, most play centers around $1/$2 and below with seldom-filled $3/$6 and $5/$10 in peak times. Pot Limit is rarely trafficked, although, once again, in peak hours sometimes a game may get going. NL is offered in buy-in ranging from NL20 to NL2000. NL Fullring and NL400 6-Max are generally the highest buy-ins trafficked, but players can find NL1000 with 3 or 4 players on the table.

Omaha is offered in its Pot Limit vareity and sees decent traffic in its $0.10/$0.20 through $1/$2 stakes. Although it is offered as high as $5/$10, it basically only sees action at these lower stakes. There are tabs available for Omaha Hi/Lo and 7-Stud in High and Hi/Lo variants but there are no tables available at this time.

Tournaments are offered in NL, PL and FL formats in both Holdem and Omaha. They run satellites, freerolls, standard generic freezouts as well as guaranteed prizepool and WSOP super-satellites. Cake Poker has a weekly $12,000 Guarantee at 9:00PM EST.

Although Cake Poekr offers SnGs, they are of the single table variety. They are offered in HU, 6-max and full 10-player formats. Players can find buy-ins as low as $5+$0.50 and as high as $200+$8. There are turbos, satellites to events like the WSOP. These are available in NL and FL for Holdem, and PL for Omaha.

Cake Poker Promotions

Cake Poker is offering members of ITH a 100% up to $500 first time signup bonus for those members using one of ITH's banners or links. Use Cake Poker Sign Up Bonus Code: ITHFGO.

Players will have 3 months from deposit to clear the bonus in it's entirety. The bonus clears in $10 increments. Players will need to earn 16.67 FPPs per $1 in bonus.

Cake Poker currently belongs to the Free Gift Offer at ITH. Players who open a real money account with Cake Poker through one of ITH's links or banners and deposit are eligible for the Free Gift Offer. Players will need to deposit a minimum of $100 and accumulate a minimum of 1200 FPPs to qualify for the Free Gift Offer.

After satisfying your requirements, simply go into the Free Gift Offer webpage and click on the "Finished the Requirements? Claim Now!" button and fill out the criteria to receive your free gift.

Restrictions: Players who have already opened a play money or real money account at Cake Poker are not eligible for this offer. If you already have an account, opening up a new account with a different username does not make you eligible for the free book. This offer is exclusive to www.InternetTexasHoldem.com so you must use one of the links provided on this website. Accounts set up through other websites are not eligible for the free books. Please ensure that you follow the directions provided to ensure that you receive proper credit for the free books.

Rakeback

Players who sign up through ITH will also receive rakeback from Cake Poker. The current rakeback percentage at Cake Poker is 33%.

For information on this exclusive offer, please click here.

Sunday $50,000 Guarantee Rebuy

Every Sunday, Cake Poker hosts their $50,000 Guaranteed Prizepool tournament at 3:00PM EST. Players may buy-in directly for $100+$9. Players can qualify in satellites for as low as $2+$0.20 or 4 Gold Chips.

Sunday $100,000 Guarantee

Every Sunday, Cake Poker hosts their $100,000 Guaranteed Prizepoool tournament at 5:00PM EST. Players may buy-in directly for $150+$12. Players can qualify in satellites for as low as $2+$0.20 or 5 Gold Chips.

Monthly $250,000 Guarantee

On the last Sunday of each month, Cake Poker hosts their $250,000 Guaranteed Prizepool tournament at 5:00PM EST. Players may buy-in directly for $300+$20 or satellite in for as little as $3+$0.30 or 2 Gold Chips.

Aussie Millions 2009

Pack your sunnies and bathers to join Team Cake in Melbourne, Australia at the Crown Casino's 2009 Aussie Millions.

An expected field of over 800 players will compete this January for a coveted spot at the internationally broadcasted final table, and make a run for the Aussie Millions guaranteed $2 Million first place prize.

While there, enjoy true Aussie hospitality, barbies and a few Fosters perhaps while taking in the world's largest cash game that features a $1 Million AUD buy-in that's sure to attract the world's best players.

Your Cake's 2009 Aussie Millions Prize Pack gets you:

Aussie Millions 2009 Main Event, January 18th to 24th ($10,500 AUD value)

Aussie Millions 2009 Feature Event (Pro Bounty) January 16th ($1600 AUD value)

Ten nights at the luxurious Crown Promenade Hotel January 15th to 25th

$4000 USD added to your Cake Poker Player's Account for help with travel expenses

Aussie Millions Satellite Schedule
Satellites will run at the Cake tournament tables October thru December. Check under the Satellite tab within Tournaments for your next shot at a cash or reward qualifier. Players may buy-in directly for $400+$25 each Sunday ay 8:00PM EST or satellite in for as little as $10+$1 or 25 Gold Chips.

Irish Open 2009

Team Cake is headed back to Ireland for the 2009 Irish Open, playing live in Dublin, April 9th to 13th 2009. The Irish Open is a five tournament, five day event, featuring a €3 Million Guaranteed prize pool across a selection of tournaments including Pot Limit Omaha, Ladies, Freezeouts, Double Chance Scalp tournaments, and of course, the Irish Open Main Event.

Hosted by CityWest Hotel, the Irish Open is surrounded by the rolling hills of Ireland, golf courses and true Irish pubfare, creating a unqiue European tournament experience for all.

Cake satellites to this boutique event will return in December 2008, with a cash, hotel and seat package up for grabs.

Each Cake Poker $7000 Irish Open Prize Package includes:

A seat in the €3500 Irish Open main event, playing April 10th to 13th, 2009.

Four nights accommodation at CityWest Hotel, Dublin Ireland.

$1400 Cash added to your Cake Poker Account for help with travel expenses.

How to Win:
Stay tuned for satellite announcements as Cake Poker's inaugural direct qualifier will kick off Saturday, December 27th. Cash and Reward satellites will be on the board in early December.

World Series of Poker 2009

Earn your poker street cred by winning your way to the world's largest poker event. A place where one hand can turn you in to a multi millionaire. Where it's acceptable for men to wear bracelets. Where you may get the chance to play heads up with Jesus.

Last year Team Cake competed in the $1500 NL Event plus the Championship tournament. In fact, over half of Cake's qualifiers freerolled their way in via an exclusive set of Cake Reward events. Congratulations to Cake player Aletheia who parlayed a Gold Card freeroll in to over $36,000 for a 12th place finish in Event 52.

Watch for satellites Spring 2009.

Freeroll into Millions

Get a free piece of Cake with their Freeroll into Millions satellite series now playing under the Freeroll tab within Tournaments.

Freeroll into Millions will run through the New Year, giving you the opportunity to parlay freeroll wins in to thousands of dollars while playing in Cake Poker's biggest guarantees. In fact, their Freeroll into Millions satellites series will give you access to over one million dollars in guaranteed Cake prize pools.

Freeroll into Millions Gold Chip Giveaway
Prizepool: 600 Gold Chips
Times: 9:30AM & 7:30PM EST M,W,F. 2:30PM & 12:30AM EST, Tu,Th,Sa

Freeroll into Millions $250,000 Satellite
Prizepool: 20 Seats to Freeroll into Millions $250k Semi-Final ($800 value)
Times: 2:30PM & 12:30AM EST M,W,F. 9:30AM & 7:30PM EST Tu,Th,Sa.

Freeroll into Millions $250,000 Semi-Final
Prizepool: Direct Qualifier for Cake Poker's Monthly $250,000 Guarantee
Time: 3:00PM EST

Freeroll into Millions $250,000 Semi-Final is open to freeroll qualifiers. Direct entry is available to all players for $37+$3. One seat in their $250,000 Guarantee will be awarded for every $215 in the prize pool.

Gold Cards

CakePoker has created 260,000 Gold Cards and tucked them safely away in their secure Gold Card Vault. Each Gold Card is stamped with a unique 'Series 3' seal, making these 260,000 cards the only 'Series 3' Gold Cards in existence.

You will win Gold Cards by playing at real money Ring Games. Each time you're dealt cards, one or both of the first 2 cards you are dealt may transform into a Gold Card at the end of the hand even if you folded your cards during the hand.

Gold Cards are chosen via Cake Poker's Random Number Generator (RNG) when a certain amount of rake is collected. This amount is reached much more quickly at a $2/4 FL table than a $.25/.50 FL table. When the appropriate amount of rake is collected the RNG chooses a Gold Card from the Vault. However, there is no guarantee that the selected Gold Card will match any players 'hole cards'. If there is no match then another Gold Card is randomly chosen each hand until a match is found. This may take several hands and may even coincide with the selection of the next Gold Card if enough rake has been collected. Therefore the same player may be awarded of 2 or more Gold Cards in a row.

Once you've won a Gold Card, the fun doesn't stop there. Every day, CakePoker will announce a Gold Card Daily Lottery. The Lottery will allow players who have the winning Gold Cards in their collection to redeem them for cash or tickets to exclusive tournaments. Or, players can choose to hold on to their Gold Cards and try to redeem them for larger Series 2 Guaranteed Prizes, including our $52,000 Gold Card Jackpot.

Gold Card 500

Complete the race by earning Gold Cards at any Real Money Ring Game. Every Gold Card you earn from the moment the race begins will race you Miles around the track. First 10 players to collect 500 miles and cross the finish line each weekly race will win the Cash and end the race. If at the end of the weekly race the top 10 players on our Leader Board have not all reached 500 miles, the cash will be awarded to the top 10 players regardless if they have reached 500 Miles or not, and the Leader Board miles will be reset for the start of a new weekly race.

Starting July 2nd, place in the Top 10 of a weekly race and earn instant cash up to $500. Place in the Top 100 and they’ll reserve a seat for you in an exclusive Gold Card 500 Final. Each Gold Card 500 Final guarantees the winner a $12,000 World Poker Tour prize package putting you in a $7700 WPT main event seat with hotel and cash included.

Gold Chips

CakePoker introduces the Gold Chip rewards program. This unique program is designed to generously reward you for your frequent play.

How do I earn Gold Chips?

When you play at real money games or pay tournament fees, you will earn Frequent Player Points (FPP). As you accumulate FPPs, you begin to fill in your Gold Chip Meter. Once your Gold Chip Meter is full, you will receive the Gold Chip that is viewed here to the right of the meter . Once you earn a Gold Chip, it is yours to keep. Redeem it whenever you’d like or save it and collect more.

What do I do with my Gold Chip?

Every week you can redeem your Gold Chip for a shot at Cake Poker's Weekly Gold Chip Giveaways. These tournaments may change from week to week (Limit Omaha one week, NL Hold’em the next). Since your Gold Chips do not expire, you are free to use whenever you wish.
or,
Every week you can redeem your Gold Chips for a shot at our Weekly Chip Buy-in Giveaway. These tournaments may change from week to week (Limit Omaha one week, NL Hold’em the next). Since your Gold Chips do not expire, you are free to use whenever you wish.
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Save up your Gold Chips to redeem for items from the Cake Shop.

Refer A Friend

Looks like you can put a price on friendship. Invite your friends over to Cake Poker and they’ll top up both your accounts with up to $100 in Bonus Cash. Here’s how it works:

Refer a friend to Cake Poker and have them enter your email address when creating their new Cake Poker Players Account.

Once your friend makes their first deposit, Cake Poker will match their deposit in both your Pending Bonus accounts, to a max of $100.

Your friend will receive his 100% Deposit Bonus in addition to Cake Poker's Refer a Friend Match Bonus offer to reap up to $200 in Cake rewards right off the bat.

Cake Poker Stability

All communications between the client program running on your computer and the Cake Poker server in Curacao are encrypted using the accepted industry standard 256-bit TwoFish encryption algorithm. The unique cards dealt to each player are delivered exclusively to that particular player's computer thus maintaining privacy and integrity of play. Packet-sniffing by other players cannot be used to gain any advantage. Cake Poker uses the cryptographically-secure RNG system found in Microsoft’s CryptoAPI. "Cryptographically secure" means that the RNG is so completely random that even a large amount of computer analysis cannot predict or detect patterns in the output, a fact that has been validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Cake Poker Security

Cake Gaming N.V. is a limited-liability business corporation incorporated in Curaçao, Dutch Antilles, and is registered and carries on business in Curaçao in full compliance with Dutch Antilles law. Cake Poker is licensed and regulated by the Government of Curacao, Dutch Antilles. They operate under Curacao's leading, regulated and proven Gaming Licensing & Hosting provider, Cyberluck. Credit card transactions are processed by Veneelco Ltd., Eagle Star House CY PO 3030 Theklas Lysiota 35 - Cyprus, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cake Gaming N.V.

Cake Poker Customer Service

Although Cake Poker doesn't have a live chat option or telephonic customer support, they have email customer support. Their email customer service has a lot of room for improvement as players and ITH tend to have had poor turnaround times on having their emails answered. Cake Poker payouts are handled in industry standard times with NETeller being a truly fast option.

Poker Tracker Compatibility with Cake Poker

Cake Poker is completely incompatible with Poker Tracker . Should this condition change in the future, ITH will update this information.

Ability to Multitable at Cake Poker

Player can play an unlimited amount of tables on Cake Poker, simultaneously.

Multiple Cake Poker Accounts per Household

Multiple Household account are allowed to exist, but Cake Poker warns that any abuse of this privilege is subject to having all account frozen and any assets seized.

Cake Poker Reload Bonus Frequency

Cake Poker offers roughly 1 reload every month although some months may be skipped. These months, however, are usually made up for by a double bonus in other months. The reloads range from mediocre [50% up to $100] to lucrative [100% up to $500]. Bonus chasers will find Cake Poker to be a decent bonus earner.

Cake Poker Tournaments with Overlays

A tournament overlay is the result of guaranteed prize money that is not offset by the participant's buy-ins. As such, all freerolls and FPP freerolls always offer an overlay.

As a smaller site, Cake Poker generally generates overlays on it's guaranteed tournaments. Some of these overlasy can be quite lucrative, while others will offer a decent overlay. Players will find that most of the time that overlays occur at Cake Poekr will generally be in the early morning hours or late at night.

Maximum Amount of Cake Poker Bonus

$500

Bonuses Cleared During Cake Poker Tournaments

Cake Poker signup bonuses can be cleared playing tournaments, SnGs and satellites. Players receive 7 FPP for every $1 in tournament fees. Just like Real Money Games, Cake Poker is accurate to the penny, so for a $0.50 tournament fee, you will receive 3.5 FPP. This equates to a 42% rakeback when chasing bonuses through tournament play.

Time Allowed to Clear Cake Poker Bonus

Players have 90 days to clear their bonus before expiration.

Cake Poker Withdrawal Restrictions

Withdrawals can be made at anytime and regardless of pending bonuses at Cake Poker. However, Cake Poker notes that players withdrawing during a current reload will not have access to that reload.

Bonus as a %age of Cake Poker Deposit

100% up to $500.

Are Cake Poker Bonuses Stackable?

Bonuses are stackable at Cake Poker and added to any pending bonuses already there. Players will receive a further 3 months to clear bonuses when they stack a reload on top of a current pending bonus.

Cake Poker Bonus to Table or Cleared?

Bonuses at Cake Poker pay out in $10 increments.

Can Cake Poker Bonuses be Chased on 1+ Skin?

Players at Cake Poker can have accounts at other sites in the Cake Gaming Network and players are free to pursue bonuses at each.

Bullajami Discretionary Cake Poker Bonus Rating

I have to give the Cake Poker bonus VERY high marks. The bonus is big, they had a reload before I could finish the initial deposit bonus, you can withdraw before you’re complete without losing the bonus, they’re stackable, the clearance terms are favorable, you can get rakeback on top of bonus, and on top of all that, there’s a value-added loyalty program. Very very impressive bonus!

Piscivorous Discretionary Cake Poker Bonus Rating

Cake Poker's sign up bonus is a lot like that of Full Tilt Poker. Both sites run a sign up bonus program where players earn points towards their bonus based on how much rake is taken from each hand or how much fees are taken from tournaments and SnGs. Players get $0.06 in rake for each 1 point [ot $1 in rake or fees paid], which equates to a 16.67x earn rate, or 42% for tournaments. The Cake Poker bonus clears at $10 increments and players have 90 days to do so. My main concern is the amount of time allowed to clear the quite large initial deposit maximum of $500 on a site where traffic is very low. Although players may have every intention of staying at Cake Poker and making it their home, the volume of traffic may preclude them from realizing the full $500. If Cake were to offer this signup bonus at 120 days, it might prove to be a better solution. Cake Poker offers members of ITH 33% rakeback on all tournament fees and cash game rake paid. Players get the 33% as a net rakeback from bonus deducted from their total rake paid minus any bonus paid out. In other words if you generate $100 in rake but clear $20 in bonus, Cake Poker will give you a 33% rakeback on $80 instead of $100. All rakebacks are paid on the 5th day of the following month, so any rake generated in March will be paid on the 5th of April. Rake and bonus together is an incredible deal for any aspiring bonus chaser. However, Cake Poker does extend any pending bonus to a full 90 days if the player adds-on to the bonus by taking advantage of a reload. Therefore, it might make good sense to reload your pending bonus just to extend the time period left on the initial deposit bonus. A continuous reload cycle might prove an effective mode for clearing all of your bonus.

Internet Texas Holdem Free Poker Bonus Gift Offer Items Rating

Cake Poker currently belongs to the Free Gift Offer at ITH. Players who open a real money account with Cake Poker through one of ITH's links or banners and deposit are eligible for the Free Gift Offer. Players will need to deposit a minimum of $100 and accumulate a minimum of 1200 raked hands to qualify for the Free Gift Offer. After satisfying your requirements, simply go into the Free Gift Offer webpage and click on the "Finished the Requirements? Claim Now!" button and fill out the criteria to receive your free gift. Restrictions: Players who have already opened a play money or real money account at Cake Poker are not eligible for this offer. If you already have an account, opening up a new account with a different username does not make you eligible for the free book. This offer is exclusive to www.InternetTexasHoldem.com so you must use one of the links provided on this website. Accounts set up through other websites are not eligible for the free books. Please ensure that you follow the directions provided to ensure that you receive proper credit for the free books.

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