This poker room is USA player friendly.
Cake Poker Sign-up Bonus
110% up to $600
Code: WHORE
More Details: 110% up to $600. Players also receive 33% rakeback when signing up through PokerBonuses. See rakeback page for additional details. Must use referral code WHORE when creating your account. 16.67 FPPs are needed for each $1 in bonus money (each point accumulated is worth $0.06). When earning rakeback with a bonus, players will earn the equivalent of 60% rakeback at full ring and 51% short handed. Bonus released in increments of $10 Bonus expires after 3 months.
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Cake Poker is the flagship site of the Cake Poker Network, one of the newer and rapidly more popular poker networks. They are open to players from the United States and claim to have one of the highest credit card acceptance rates in the industry. There are several other skins on the Cake Poker Network that help keep the tables full, including Sportsbook.com which bring many degenerate sports betters to the poker tables. Cake Poker is firmly against PokerTracker support and as such have some of the softest games available online. They also allow players to change their nickname once a week so that people will not be able to keep detailed notes on you, which makes it harder for them to adjust to your style of play. Cake Poker has been online since 2006 and is increasingly becoming a popular place for people from around the world to play.
The Cake Poker Network does allow U.S. players and you can choose from other poker rooms such as Power Poker.
Bonuses
110% up to $600- Bonus is difficult to clear at low limits, moderately difficult at 2/4, and moderately easy to easy at 3/6 and above.
In addition to the sign-up bonus, players will also receive 33% rakeback through PokerBonuses. Rakeback is based on the dealt method. Bonuses are not deducted from MGR.
Support
Cake Poker provides very prompt customer support via email, but that is the only method available. Their customer service agents are knowledgeable and usually take care of any issues that you have right away. Cake Poker also takes care of it’s customers through their various loyalty programs such as the Gold Chip Reward Program and the Gold Card Program. You earn Gold Chips based on the number of frequent player points you earn each month and those can be redeemed in the Cake Store or for tournament entries. Gold Cards are awarded randomly during cash game play and can be cashed in during daily Gold Card lotteries or also for special Gold Card tournaments.
Game Features
Traffic at mid to low stakes is bountiful with a good amount of both full ring and short handed tables being available. A quick browse through the lobby will let you find which players are grinding on many tables and which tables are only fish. You are mostly likely to find only Texas Hold’em games going on Cake Poker, although there are mid/low stakes Omaha games going fairly regularly, depending on the time of day.
The average level of play at Cake Poker is quite low and it is not difficult to beat the games there. This applies especially to the tournaments in which you will find many extremely poor players. Cake Poker offers many guaranteed prize pool tournaments that draw in fish through low priced satellite tournaments. Many are rebuy tournaments, but if you’re willing to let the other players do the majority of the rebuying they can be very profitable.
Software Features
Cake Poker’s software is fairly basic, and has plenty of bugs. This keeps many of the pro’s away, leading to softer games that are more profitable for the average player. The software weaknesses affect all players equally so it really isn’t too much of a hassle, although frequent disconnects and freezes can be extremely frustrating.
Having fixed table sizes make it difficult to play more than 4 tables at a time on a single monitor, although with no PokerTracker support it would be difficult to play many more than that profitably. There are instant hand histories and the option for a 4 color deck but that’s really about it.
Player Restrictions
The Cake Poker Network is currently not accepting any players from the state of Kentucky.
You may have accounts at multiple skins on the Cake Poker Network. However, you can't use the same email address for multiple sites on the network.
Players may only have one rakeback account on the Cake Poker Network.
Misc Info
For PokerBonuses rakeback players, 0.50 FPP is awarded to each player at the table for each $1 in rake taken from your table. Fractional points are also counted. For example, if your table rake is $0.50, you will receive 0.25 FPPs.
When choosing to clear this bonus in a single table or multi-table tournament:
For each $1 in tournament fees, you will earn 3.5 FPPs. Rakeback players will receive 33% of their rakeback. Bonuses are not deducted from MGR.
Percentage of tournament rake refunded when clearing the bonus:
Bonus + Rakeback: 54%
33% Rakeback: 33%
