Cake Poker Review

Summary (8)

Cake Poker is an active online poker room with a great loyalty rewards program, an enticing new player bonus, and plenty of tourneys and satellites. This USA-friendly poker room has exceptional software that is both reliable and secure.

Cake Poker's Software (8)

Cake Poker software offers decent graphics and functional play. The software allows for players to take notes on each other, chat, and view stats and info on any player. You can also change your screen name every seven days, if you wish.

Traffic (8)

The traffic on Cake has increased heavily since the Cake Poker Network now shares its skin with many other poker rooms such as BetUS Poker, CardSpike, and Sportsbetting Poker. There are usually about 5,000-15,000 players hanging out on the Cake Poker Network.

Tournaments (9)

Cake Poker has satellites and super-satellites to many of the live event poker tournaments around the world. Cake also offers multi-tables, re-buys and add-ons, shootouts, and freerolls.

Game Variety (8)

You can play all the popular poker games at Cake Poker (Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, Stud, and Stud Hi Lo) on a wide spread of limits with many different betting formats available.

Soft Competition (7)

The action at Cake is pretty tight, for now. This may change as the network grows, but you can usually find a good game on this site. Cake does, though, show signs of becoming a big name in the online poker industry.

Sign Up Bonus (10)

All new depositing players will receive 100% of their first deposit back, up to $500 Bonus Cash. They will also receive entry into the New Deposit Freeroll, which can be used anytime and never expires.

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Loyalty Rewards (10+)

Loyalty rewards come in the form of Gold Chips at Cake Poker. You can also collect a deck of Gold Cards to use for special tournament buy-ins, the Gold Card Daily Lottery, and one of the Gold Card 500 competition series. The Gold-themed promotions are pretty much the staple promotion of Cake, being the one promotion that doesn’t change. These competitions last the life of your membership at Cake Poker.

Play in real-money ring games and real-money tournaments to collect Frequent Player Points (FPPs), which will help you clear your bonus, and get you into other special competitions at Cake Poker.

Promotions (9)

Every month Cake Poker puts up a new promotion that is usually themed around the holiday of the month. Because Cake changes these out religiously, you should check their promotions frequently, so you don’t miss out on anything. Sometimes they do promotions that involve accomplishing tasks throughout the month, which can add some additional fun to your poker time. There are also reload bonuses and referral programs.

Support (9)

You can contact support at Cake Poker 24/7 via email. They also have an extensive help section on the home site that even has a “Network Status” link to check connection. The support at Cake, although it is limited to email, is very helpful and good about responding quickly.

Deposit & Withdrawal Options (8)

VISA, MasterCard, MoneyBookers, Neteller, ECO, UseMyWallet, ewalletXpress, and epassporte