Cake Poker Review & Bonus

Summary (7.8)

Cake Poker is an online poker room functioning for just over a year. Nonetheless, this poker site has immense potential to grow into a superb poker site in the near future. Numerous tournaments and promotions could contribute to its growth. This poker site is not suitable for you if you like to play in a heavy traffic environment. The face of this online poker room could undergo varied changes with increase in player traffic and inclusion of many few features in future.

Ring game (7)

As the overall traffic at the site is low, ring games also record few players. The main cause behind is that it is an independent site and does not share player base with any other poker sites.

Game vareity (8)

Cake Poker offers all the usual games like omaha Hi/Low, Omaha, 7 Card Stud Hi/Low, 7 Card Stud, and Texas Hold'em with No Limit, Pot Limit and Fixed Limit. Traffic concentration is maximum f Texas Hold'em games.

Competition (9)

Competition is very soft due to increasing number of loose players. The flop percentage of players at low stake tables of $1/$2 is around 60% while it is around 80% at high stake tables.

Loyalty (9)

Cake Poker has a unique loyalty program on offer of a Gold Card Lottery consisting of few golden cards. Every player playing at the ring games and tournaments receives such cards. You can either redeem them for merchandise or tournaments or collect all 52 cards and receive $52,000. The site offers cake slices for participating in real money games.

Support (5)

Being a new poker site Cake Poker offers only e-mail support 24/7 and FAQs page. Response time is very fast. It would be better if they add chat and telephone facilities soon.

Cash (5)

Presently Cake Poker offers cash options through InstaCash, NETeller, Visa, MasterCard, and Visa Electron. However, cash out option is possible only through NETeller.

Software (9)

Software supports excellent graphics with the usual features of player notes and visual customizations. You can mark players with different colors to categorize their playing abilities. Game location is easy and fast. There are no 3-D effects. Lobby features are not in synchronization with the table game. Navigation poses small problems.

Tournament (7)

Cake Poker does offer few tournaments like sit & go, free rolls, minor satellites, and some private tables. There are just over five hundred players during peak hours at these tournaments.

Rake (7)

Being a new poker site, rake is relatively average. It will improve with increase in traffic.

Signup bonus (8)

The sign-up bonus is around $125. The deposit match is at 25% and you need to deposit $500 to get the full bonus through bonus codes. It is simple to claim the bonus at Cake Poker.

Promotions (10)

There are simple and small referral and free roll promotions. Additionally, if you win one of the few one-percent shares of Cake Gaming N.V., you receive a small ownership of Cake Poker for life. This could be worth many millions of dollars in future.

Security (10)

As of now, the site offers excellent security through its proprietary software.