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Promotions and Bonuses 7/10
Cake Pokers first time depositors will be treated to a 110% First Deposit Bonus of up to $600 and a free tournament ticket to their weekly New Depositor Freeroll.
Cake poker also offers reload bonuses for existing customers. Emails are sent to let you know when you are eligible.
Refer a friend is just another bonus on offer by cake poker. Successfully refer a friend and the cash rewards will be yours. There is no need to deposit at your end. You receive a 100% match bonus, up to $100 cash per player referred. What's more you are eligible to receive monthly cash payments based on FPP's your friend accumulates. The more they play, the more you earn.
Cake poker also offers a gold chip and card bonus. This bonus is offered randomly no matter what stakes you play. The bonus gives you opportunity to win via the daily lottery and leader boards. Where you have a shot at 50k a month. These are offered in ring games only.
Software 8/10
The Cake poker software never seems to skip a beat. It has clean graphics and is easy to use in every way. The main lobby is a breeze to manoeuvre around and find exactly what you are looking for. Basically the lobby is split into 2 sections of games, ring games and tournaments.
You have a good choice of avators on cake poker, they are life like looking and show at various angles, you can choose your required seat and have it set as a permanent one. Alike the lobby, the tables are easy to use and features stand out prominently.
Tournaments and Sit N Go's 8/10
Cake poker offers guaranteed tournament prize money ranging from a daily $25,000.00 weekly $100,000.00 Guarantee and monthly $250,000.00 Guarantee main event. Cake now offers over $5 Million in monthly guaranteed tournament action. That is sure to please everyone.
Cake Poker also offers tournaments where each player has the chance to win entry into some of the worlds largest live events. Up for grabs are tickets to events such as the Aussie Millions.
Cake pokers tournaments and Sit N Go's cater for all bankroll sizes. Tournaments and Sit N Go's start at 25c right through to a massive $5000. Freerolls run continually and cake also offers tournament buy ins with its unique gold chips.
The traffic is generally pretty good as previously mentioned meaning there is a tournament or Sit N Go always running. As the stakes get higher though the wait is longer. The longer wait with larger buy ins is normal for most sites though.
Game Selection 7/10
Cake Poker offers the 3 most common poker variants. These include the following:
NL, Limit and Pot Limit Texas Holdem, Omaha Hi and Hi/Lo in Limit, Fixed Limit and Pot Limit, 7 card stud and 7 card Stud Hi/Lo.
Ring Games 7/10
The ring games at cake poker are quite popular. The range in blinds from 2c/4c through to $500/$1000.
Ring game variants and stakes are as follows:
- NL Holdem - 2c/4c to $100/$200 blinds. NL Holdem are the most popular ring games of all it seems, although omaha is close in ranks on cake with many full ring game tables.
- Fixed Limit - 2c/4c blinds through to $100/$200
- Pot Limit Holdem - 5c/10c to $25/$50 blinds
- Pot Limit Omaha - 2c/4c through to $500/$1000
- Fixed Limit Omaha - $50c/$1 to $1/$2 blinds (there seems to be very little interest in this game on cake)
- Omaha Hi/Lo - 2c/4c through to $30/$60
- 7 Card Stud - There appears to be no current games in this section
- 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo - There appears to be no current games in this section
Other features 7/10
Cake poker has a comprehensive help section with all the rules of poker and comprehensive responsible gaming information.
Cake poker not surprisingly have a cake shop where merchandise and the like can be purchased with frequent player points, or in the case of cake poker GOLD CHIPS.
The best feature of cake poker is the clock shows the time on your time zone unlike many other sites. This makes knowing the time a tournament will take place a breaze.
