Cake Poker

Short Description

Cake's the lead poker room for the Cake poker network which also includes such big names as Doyles Room, Players Only, PokerWorld and Sportsbook Poker. Cake has a huge advantage of being available for the U.S. residents who generate the biggest part of the room's traffic. The average number of player's at a time revolves around 4,000 with most of them keeping to the low and mid limit tables. Unlike most of the rooms outside the top 5, Cake has some significant action at the higher stakes, like $100/$200. However, this is only true with the Texas Hold'em games, Omaha, unfortunately, does not receive such attention. Tournaments at Cake Poker are always there with plenty to choose from: freerolls, Sit'n Go's, Satellites and Private events. A new Depositors $500 freeroll is the one to pay your attention to as everyone making their first real money deposit are welcome to participate. So Cake's the place that every poker fan will enjoy playing at, as it has just about everything they might be looking for.

Limit and Rake Structure

The limits at Cake poker vary from $0.02/$0.04 all the way up to $500/$1,000 at the Texas Hold'em and Omaha Tables, whereas Omaha Hi/Lo can only be played from $0.02/$0.04 to $30/$60.

The rake structure keeps to the standards of the online poker by charging most of the hands at 5%, however, some exceptions are possible depending on the stakes and the number of players. They also keep to the 'no flop no drop' policy when no rake is collected if the hand has not reached the flop.

Cake Poker Popularity

Being a U.S. friendly poker room, Cake poker is more popular in the United States rather than the rest of the world. However, this is not only the Cake's case. As a matter of fact, most of the online poker rooms that accept U.S. players generate the biggest part of their traffic at the States, the only exception being the two giants. The traffic at Cake poker usually floats around 4,000 players. The most popular game is by no doubt the low-stakes NL Texas Hold'em. Around 80% of the players choose it as their preferred game at Cake poker. There is always some good action at the tournament tables as the offered amount of games is rather high with lots of opponents just waiting to be beaten.

Special Cake Poker Features

The best feature of the cake is that it is sweet and tasty and if you get one it probably means that it's your birthday and birthdays are always fun, right? It's kinda the same with Cake poker: you get sweet bonuses and promotions, tasty tournament cash prizes and endless fun while playing poker for money. Cake's website is very welcoming and cake-like, it almost makes you feel the taste of that delicious chocolate cake in your mouth. We even contacted their customer care service to find out if there was any way we could get some of that cake for ourselves. No luck there. Although Cake poker do not bake actual cakes they do have some very nice features at their poker room, such as Gold! Yes, everything's golden at Cake poker – Gold card daily lottery, Gold chips, Gold card race, the Gold Rush promotion, $52,000 Gold Jackpot and so on. The only question remains: why gold and not chocolate?

Software

The software is very nice and solid, it makes you feel as if at a fancy casino eating a peace of that golden cake. The software is definitely the one of the high-class, the lobby is luxurious, but at the same time very easy to use and to navigate, it is divided into to main parts of ring games and tournaments, which are then subdivided into some narrower parts. This kind of user-friendly environment makes Cake poker a place that players want to come back to. It is very easy to find the game you're looking for, just categorize the tables in the manner that best suites your poker-playing needs. There are some very useful additional options like choosing your proffered seating at the table, set the window size, saving your hand history, setting the buy-ins and re-buys.

Support

Although Cake's support is only available via email, there does not seem to be any problems regarding the customer service. The support is available 24/7, the answers are received very quick and problems solved fast. There is also a highly informative FAQ page where answer to most of the queries may be found without contacting the customer service. If you are encountering some problems, which is rather unusual at Cake, you might also check the 'Known Issues' and 'Network Status' to see whether your issue is already being worked on, and if your bond with the Cake server is strong enough.