Detailed Cake Poker Review

Cake Poker is a rather new online poker room which has grown tremendously over the past year. They share their players will a number of poker rooms who have purchased “skins” of their software. The biggest and most known client on this network is Sportsbook Poker (sportsbook.com).

During American peak hours about 900 real money ring game and over 1,000 real money tournament players can be found playing simultaneously. This is quite impressive for a site that just launched in 2006.

The parent company, Cake Gaming N.V, is a new player to the gambling industry. Their company roots relate to video game programming. This has come in handy when developing and tweaking the poker software itself, all the advanced functions are in place and operate quite well. Overall we consider the software in the top 3 (if not the best) in the industry in terms of user friendliness and playability.

Even though Cake is new to the industry they have done quite well. Landing big name clients such as sportsbook.com and betus.com has helped keep this room filled with fish (inexperienced poker player there simply to gamble).

Cake hosts their servers in Curacao, Dutch Antilles, which is also where the company is licensed and regulated.

Software: We speak to a large number of poker players on a regular basis and have to date not met a player who has had much negative to say about this software. In fact most players fall in love with it for its simple advanced features, playability and user friendliness. Players will be able to chose from several different characters/avatars to play with. The graphics are very sharp and the table is a very nice. Other features are player notes, interaccount transfers, and many more.

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Ring Game Traffic: During peak hours up to 1200 real money players can be found playing simultaneously. This is very impressive for a new poker room. You will find the traffic slit up amongst NL100 to NL1000. There is also much bigger Limit and No Limit games that are being played.

Tournament Traffic: The tournament traffic is mediocre with over 1,000 real money players during peak hours. Cake Poker has some great overlay tournaments and some really juicy re-buy tournaments that are constantly running.

Game Variety: While cake offers Omaha and Stud games very few players are found at anything other than Texas Holdem. When the pot limit omaha games run, hurry up and get a seat. Because you will be in for a crazy ride with tons of action.

Sign Up Bonus: Cake offers a 100% bonus up to $500. Once this bonus is cleared players can also earn 33% rakeback if they sign up using bonus code: RAKEBACK. The bonus is very inferior to the 33% rakeback. So let you friends know about this awesome deal.

Promotions: Cake Poker has lots of great promotion such as a ring game race, freerolls, gold cards and much more. For full details see their website. Also, visit our Cake Poker Promotions page which we update regularly.

Customer Support: Cake Poker offers email support and a basic FAQ page which should cover a lot of your questions. Cake will soon be adding a live chat and telephone support in the near future. When dealing with Cake Poker’s support our emailed questions were answered professionally and quickly.

Banking Options: Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, InstaCash, MoneyBookers, and ePassporte.

American players looking to deposit with credit card should check out our Sportsbook Poker Page.