The Cake Poker Network continues to grow every day with many new rooms being added such as Doyles Room and Power Poker.  Each of these new Cake Poker Network skins brings in new players and this helps the network continue to grow.  The network is now the tenth largest poker network online and they will likely be moving up this list in the near future.

The Cake Poker network averages about 2000 cash games players and 4000 tournament players online at any time during the day.  At the moment there are 39 different Cake Poker network skins who all share players in order to ensure that the players at each one of these poker room can always find a game to their liking.  The main Cake Poker skins include BetUS, Cake Poker, Doyles Room, Players Only Poker, Power Poker, Red Star Poker and Sportsbook.com.  Each of the Cake Poker network sites not only share players, but they also share many promotions such as the gold card and gold chip promotions that are unique to Cake Poker skins.

The Cake Poker network will continue to grow over the coming years because the software is solid, US players are allowed and the major poker rooms on the network are committed to growing their brands and succeeding in the online poker industry.

Cake Poker is giving players a chance to party it up in style with celebrities, professional poker players and some playboy bunnies at Hugh Hefner’s playboy mansion.  Each prize package is worth $3K and includes $1,000 in travel expenses and spending money, $1,000 for the VIP Mansion event and $1,000 for the $50K tournament that will take place at the Mansion.

Satellites are running until June 20th with a $100 + 9 rebuy tournament on Sunday at 5:30pm EST.  There are $6 + $0.06 satellites into this rebuy event every day up until the 20th.

This is your chance to party it up in style with all kinds of celebrities and athletes in the legendary Playboy Mansion.  Use your VIP access to have the time of your life.  Not to mention all proceeds go to charity so even if you aren’t on your best behaviour you can still come away feeling good about yourself.

Also, if you win a prize package you can give the $1000 in spending money back in order to get a second ticket to the VIP event for a friend.  It’s nice to have a wingman at the mansion.

Sign up to Cake Poker today using Cake Poker sign up code “THE500″ to start winning your place.

I wanted to look at the Cake Poker bonus in a little more detail in order for you to see the benefits of signing up with Cake Poker sign up code – CAKEBC500.

As you know the Cake Poker bonus is a 100% matching bonus up to $500.  The bonus is released in $10 increments and you have 90 days to clear as much of the bonus as you can.  Also, to clear the bonus you must earn FPP’s, with each FPP being worth $0.06 of your bonus.

In tournaments you earn 7 FPP’s for every $1 you pay in tournament fees.  Since, each FPP is worth $0.06 of your bonus, for every $1 in tournament fees you pay, you earn $0.42 back in cleared bonus amounts.  This is actually quite high in the industry, as you can see by looking at easiest to clear poker bonuses.

Now in cash games you earn 1 FPP for every $1 in rake at the table.  This is the same whether you play 9-handed, 6-handed or heads up.  So as you can see the easiest and most economical way to earn FPP’s is playing at 9-handed tables because there are more players, so there is a greater chance of there being a large rake without you having to contribute anything to the pot.  If you play 9-handed and you are a completely average player in terms of aggression this means that you earn 1 FPP for every approximately $0.11 that you personally rake.  Which equals out to 9 FPP’s for every $1 you personally pay in rake.  As you can see for a normal player, cash games earn your more FPP’s per $1 that you pay to the house.  Also, for a tight player, cash games are definitely the way to go, because you will be earning FPP’s even if you are folding almost every hand.  If you earn 9 FPP’s for every $1 you personally contribute to the rake than you are earning $0.54 back in cleared bonuses for every $1 that you personally rake.  If you are a super tight player, this amount could be much higher, even possibly over $1, in which case you would be earning money without having to win any hands.

Cake Poker is giving 6 players a chance to play in the 2009 Irish Open in Dublin for absolutely free. 

From February 15th up until the final satellite on March the 15th Cake Poker will be running satellites to the final event via gold card daily lottery satellites.

The final on March 15th will have a 250 player field, which will battle down to the 6 players who will earn their tickets to Ireland.  Each Cake $7K prize package includes a 3500 Euro seat, four nights accomodation at the CityWest Hotel and $1400 in traveling expenses.

The Irish Open is being held April 10th to April 13th and would be a great experience for any player!

Sign up at Cake Poker now using our Cake Poker sign up code to fight for your chance to play in Ireland!

On the last Sunday of every month at 5pm EST Cake Poker hosts it’s biggest ever guaranteed tournament, the $250K guaranteed.  The buy-in for this event is $250+$18.

These huge guaranteed tournaments are helping cement Cake Poker as one of the top online poker rooms around.  The $250K can compete with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker’s Sunday guaranteed tournaments, and the results are now included in the CardPlayer Online Player of the Year Standings!  These huge tournaments and this recognition by CardPlayer are both big steps for Cake Poker and its players to becoming recognized as a top room.

If you haven’t played at Cake before, I highly recommend you at least play through your initial deposit bonus by signing up at Cake Poker now, using the Cake Poker sign up code CAKEBC500.

Cake Poker has been added as the 6th poker site to be included in Card Player’s player of the year standings.  Cake has joined other powerhouses in the online poker industry, PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet and Bodog as the poker rooms where it is possible to earn OPOY points.

Cake’s weekly $100K tourney and monthly $250K tourney will count towards the Player of the Year standings.  The conditions for a tournament to be counted towards the OPOY standings is that it must have at least a prize pool of $100K and at least 100 entrants.

To learn more about the OPOY check out the complete 2009 OPOY rules.

Also just to note, only Cake is counted, not the entire Cake network.

To get started putting together your run at OPOY sign up to Cake Poker today using our Cake Poker Sign Up Code CAKEBC500.