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Cake Poker is a relatively new room to the industry launching back in 2005. Since this time they have developed a strong player base by offering one of the best player reward promotions in the industry. Players will receive a competitive sign up bonus, find some of the loosest tables and qualify for live events through the multiple satellites the room offers. Currently Cake Poker is providing players the chance to enter into one of the largest freerolls online. The “Million Dollar Series” is a series of $100,000 freerolls held each month for 10 months.

Along with the welcome bonus, players can also receive monthly reload offers which are stackable. Cake Poker does provide one of the most unique incentive programs to date. They have implemented the Cake Gold Chips and Cake Gold Cards. These two programs give multiple rewards such as extra tournaments with prize pools starting at a couple thousand to the ability to redeem them for cash value. Cake Poker hosts daily Gold Card Lotteries which means you can cash your Gold Cards in for free money or collect them as a series for a top prize of $52,000. Players are awarded the Gold Cards through ring games only once the table has accumulated enough rake during game play. When this happens the RNG will randomly award one Gold Card to a player at the table. The Gold Chips are awarded by collecting enough frequent player points.

The competition in this room is still minimal at best. Since they are still new they have attracted plenty of beginners which means you should have no troubles being able to make a profit at most levels of the game. The average viewed flop percentage can easily peak above the 55% mark in most games.

We found the ring game selection to be about standard for this room with Texas Holdem and Omaha available. The lobby will show 7 Card Stud, but as of to date they have yet to provide any games for this version. Each of the games is available in No Limit, Pot limit, and Fixed Limit with stakes starting at the $0.05/$0.10 climbing up to $50/$100 although most games can be found at the $5/$10 No limit. The vast majority of the players are seen at the Texas Holdem tables. Overall, they do hold enough traffic to keep the tables hopping throughout the day, but they do not at this time have any high limit games running. Not yet at least.

The tournament lineup is quite impressive for such a new room. They have made sure to equip the schedule with all formats players look for including; freezeouts, re-buys, and guaranteed payments with the largest game found on weekends. This game has a guaranteed $50,000 prize pool and you can get in on the action for a couple of dollars in one of the daily qualifiers. Cake Poker provides some highly unique tournament promotions including the most recent, “Million Dollar Series”, which gives you a shot to get into a $100,000 freeroll. Each month for the next ten months you can win your way in through the qualifiers and satellites. The winner in this big event will be walking away with a guaranteed $75,000 cash. Satellites to live events for the WSOP and Aussie Millions are available.

The software is developed by Cake Gaming and offers the standard functions you would expect. One thing slightly different with this room is they do not allow third party software for data mining because they feel this gives one player an advantage over another. You will also be able to change your screen name once every 7 days. As far the actual performance – it runs smoothly with very little delay even during peak hours. All your statistics are located in the lobby including viewed flop percentage, hands per hour and chip stack. The table stats are found within the chat box and can be somewhat difficult to get used to. They do allow you to save your hand histories and you can also import these to your hard drive. Cake Poker updates frequently with very little downtime. They don’t offer anything over the top but the room is fully functionally and includes the basics that you would expect to see.

Support is available 24/7 through email and live chat. Cake’s support team is responsive and knowledgeable about all aspects of the room. You really shouldn’t have any problems with them and they are quite quick handling email enquiries.

Deposit methods include; NeTeller, EPassport, Visa and MasterCard, and Moneybookers.

This information was accurate when it was written, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all information directly with the poker room.

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