General – Cake Poker has been a fast growing online poker room ever since they got started in 2006. The Cake Poker team has always had their focuses set on creating a better and more rewarding online poker experience. Cake Poker often has over 5000 online poker players at their tables during peak hours. One of the best things about Cake is the awesome promotions they run that reward the loyal players along with the casual players. Players will be awarded gold coins and cards simply by playing at the real money tables. These coins and cards go towards many different fun prizes such as cash, tournament entries and items at the Cake Shop.
Bonus – Cake Poker offers a 100% bonus up to $500. That means that players depositing at Cake for their first time will receive a 100% match of their deposit up to the maximum $500. The bonus is released in $10 increments when players earn a certain number of Frequent Player Points (FPPs). FPPs are points automatically awarded to the player through playing at real money cash tables and tournaments. Each FPP earned by the player goes towards releasing $.06 of the pending bonus. FPPs are easy to earn as every dollar raked in cash games is worth 1 FPP and every dollar paid in tournament fees is worth 7 FPPs. Every time the player earns $10 worth of FPPs the money will automatically be released until the entire bonus is paid out to the player.
Competition – The competition at Cake Poker tends to be weaker than most online poker rooms. With that being said, the competition continues to get a little better as the popularity of the room increases. Lower limits at Cake Poker tend to be played very loose by a lot of the players. At the higher limits you will see a big increase in skill level, but the play is still weaker than most online rooms. Overall, most skilled players will enjoy playing at Cake Poker because of all the loose play at the tables.
Software and Games – One of Cake Pokers efforts have been to make a great software that will improve the players gaming experience. The software has a very nice look to it and has some great customizable features, but I feel they are missing some important aspects that would make it a leading poker software. With that said, the Cake team has been doing a great job upgrading the software to make it a great playing experience for their players. Cake Poker offers many of the popular games including Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Stud and Stud Hi-Lo. Players are given the choice to sit at regular sized tables, shorthanded tables, or the heads up tables.
Tournaments – Cake Poker holds a variety of different tournaments that should suit every type of player. At anytime of the day you will be able to find a mix of tournaments such as freeze-outs, re-buys or bounty tournaments. They do a great job of mixing up the type of tournaments they run to keep it exciting for all players. Cake often runs guaranteed prize pool tournaments that are of great value to the players. Cake Poker also has a lot of great promotional tournaments that excite their players. These include tournaments such as the gold card tournaments, new deposit freerolls and WSOP qualifiers.
