Cake

dominique · 09-07-2008, 12:18 PM

Cake Poker pays out $15 Million in monthly tournament awards. When you make a deposit, you get a 100% Deposit Bonus plus a ticket to their New Depositor $500 Freeroll.

US players welcome.

Biscuit · 09-07-2008, 01:46 PM

Cake is currently my favorite poker room for cash games. They are not compatible with Poker Tracker and have made it clear they don't want to be. This keeps a lot of the 10-tabling poker clones from swarming the site and turning them into rock gardens. I play mostly full ring limit holdem and I can always get some action between 1/2 and 5/10.

I also like the Bounty SNGs.

Biscuit · 09-07-2008, 04:56 PM

One more thing about Cake...you get these gold chips every so often that can be used to buy merchandise or turned in for tournament entry. I had a few gold chips the other night and decided to jump into a satellite that was just starting. (It was Friday night and I had a few beers after work...so I don't like to risk any real money, but wanted to play.)

I won the thing, and got a free entry into a WPT tourney that costs $215 to get into. The problem is that the prize for that is entry to a live tournament that I cannot play in because I am traveling for work at that time.

I asked Cake if I could sell my $215 tournament entry to someone else, and they said "no". So I won the MTT and it has no value for me.

D'Oh!

beaston · 09-07-2008, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

One more thing about Cake...you get these gold chips every so often that can be used to buy merchandise or turned in for tournament entry. I had a few gold chips the other night and decided to jump into a satellite that was just starting. (It was Friday night and I had a few beers after work...so I don't like to risk any real money, but wanted to play.)

I won the thing, and got a free entry into a WPT tourney that costs $215 to get into. The problem is that the prize for that is entry to a live tournament that I cannot play in because I am traveling for work at that time.

I asked Cake if I could sell my $215 tournament entry to someone else, and they said "no". So I won the MTT and it has no value for me.

D'Oh!

Wow, that's odd. I would have thought the least they could do is let you have the $215 as credit to an online tournament at Cake.

I played there for the first time last night, and kinda liked it. The interface is very nice (better than Poker Stars, IMO).

One thing that puzzles me is this:

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We allow you to change your Poker Nickname frequently. Abuse of this feature including choosing offensive Poker Nicknames will result in the removal of your ability to change your Poker Nickname. If you change your player name your past tournament results will not be automatically amalgamated on external leaderboards.

I don't get it. This, IMO, is an unfair advantage. I don't understand why they do this, when every other poker room/network frowns on even changing your alias once. Even at Prima, they won't let you have 2 aliases at all.

Basically, if you're mostly a cash game player and aren't playing for the tournament leaderboard, then you could change your alias more than your underwear

Biscuit · 09-07-2008, 06:23 PM

Even when players change their names, if you have notes on them, the notes stay.

beaston · 09-07-2008, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Even when players change their names, if you have notes on them, the notes stay.

That's great to know

I wonder why this isn't told to you in the client? Or maybe I just missed it?