Cake Poker has announced a $30,000 Gold Card Race that is beginning today and running until May 7th.  Each week there is $7,500 up for grabs in a weekly race.  Every week you can earn up to $200 depending on how many gold cards you receive that week.  The higher the gold card, the more miles it earns you in the race.  Whoever gets the furthest wins the race.  You should also note that the gold cards value gets multiplied by the stakes of the table you are playing at so this promotion is mainly for the higher stake players (who earn gold cards faster anyways), so if you are a low stake player you shouldn’t get too excited.

Race Dates

Race 1 – April 10th to 16th – $7500 up for grabs
Race 2 – April 17th to 23rd – $7500 up for grabs
Race 3 – April 24th to 30th – $7500 up for grabs
Race 4 – May 1st to 7th – $7500 up for grabs

Things To Keep In Mind

• You do not need to redeem your gold cards for the race.  If you earned a gold card you will be awarded that many miles without having to redeem it.
• You are able to redeem your gold cards for other promotions and this will not affect your race standings.
• If you finish within the top 200 of the race you will see a cash prize added to your account within 48 hours of the end of the race.

Who Wins With This Promo

The high volume, high limit cash game players have to most to gain from this promotion.  As mentioned above the value of the gold card is multiplied by the level of stakes you are playing at, so only high limit players will be able to win the top prizes in this promotion.

Even though this isn’t good for the lower stake players it’s a good way for Cake Poker to give back to the players that earn them the most money.

If you don’t have a Cake Poker account yet, you can sign up and join in on this promotion.  Click here to visit Cake Poker now and get in on the race.

 Cake Poker has a new promotion to help you kick off your 2013 right.  If playing less poker in 2013 is one of your New Years resolutions then you should click the back button now.  But if your resolution is to win more money at online poker by taking advantage of some great promos then keep reading (if you haven’t made either your New Years resolution then keep reading too).

Gold Cards Series 13′ is beginning on January 1st, 2013.  If you earn 2 gold cards at the cash game tables on New Years Day you will qualify for the Holiday Gold 8pm tourney, which has a prize pool of $2500 up for grabs.

You should also be looking to earn gold cards throughout all of January.  If you are able to earn 13 or more gold cards in the month you will qualify for a $13,000 guaranteed tourney taking place on February 3rd at 7pm GMT.  So if your New Years resolution is more poker you should have no trouble collecting the 13 gold cards and having a shot at some big cash money in the Lucky $13K Tournament.

2013 is going to be another great year at Cake Poker and this Lucky Series 2013 is a great way to kick off the poker playing year.

If you don’t yet have an account at Cake that doesn’t mean you can’t take part in this promo.  It just means that you are also eligible to receive the 200% first deposit bonus up to $2000 with the use of Cake Poker signup code SIGNUP600.

On a side note if you like to place other bets online in addition to poker I suggest checking out BetOnIt.org.  It’s a great website that explains how to bet on a wide variety of sports, casino games and more online.

That’s it for now.  Have fun winning money at Cake Poker!

Cake Poker has announced a new online poker promotion that will coincide with the Euro 2012 soccer tournament from June 8th to July 1st.  This promotion uses a lot of words to make it appealing to Euro 2012 fans, but in reality it looks pretty much the same as most of their other online promos.  Let’s have a look:

From June 8th to 22nd you will notice four different Gold Champs 2012 daily satellites running throughout the day.  To enter these satellites you will need gold cards between 2s and 8s from any of the suits.  Each satellite will be dedicated to a suit and the top 20 finishers in each satellite will earn a ticket into that suits $5,000 freeroll, which will take place on June 23rd or 24th.

At the $5k “group finals” there is $5,000 in cash being awarded to the winners PLUS the top 50 finishers in each “group finals” will win a ticket into the $10,000 Gold Champs Finals which will take place on July 1st, the same days at the finals of Euro 2012.

Finishing in the top 50 of a “group finals” is not the only way to gain entry to the $10K Gold Champs Finals however.  There will also be daily satellites from June 25th to 28th where the top 10 finishers will advance to the $10k Finals.  These satellites require gold cards from 9s to Aces for entry.  This means that the total number of players in the $10,000 tournament will be 240, which equals an equivalent buy-in of about $40 per person.

Promotion Value

In total Cake Poker will be awarding $30,000 to players, but this cash isn’t completely free since you need gold cards in order to enter the satellite tournaments.  I would still say that using your gold card for this promotion would be of good use and if you are able to enter the $10,000 finals an equivalent of a $40 buy-in tournament is more than many players on Cake would be able to enter on a daily basis.

The other great thing about this promotion is that you will be able to watch Euro 2012 matches throughout the promotion!  I for one am extremely excited about the start of the tournament this coming weekend and this promotion starting at the same time adds another perk to the tournament!

To learn more about online poker promotions being offered by other online poker rooms or just reading some online poker news I suggest checking out Poker30.  It’s a great online poker resource that offers information about online poker bonuses from around the web, keeps you updated on online poker news and even provides strategy to help you become a winning poker player.

There is $100,000 up for grabs courtesy of Cake Poker this month in the $100k Points Race that starts today and runs throughout March.  If you are the most frequent player on Cake Poker in the month of March then you have the chance to win up to $7,500 (that would involve winning all four weeks and the overall month races).

How It Works

The frequent player points that you earn at both cash games and tournaments will be added to your total and you will compete against all other Cake Poker players for places on the Cake Poker points race leaderboard.

In cash games you earn 1 frequent player point for every $1 in rake that the table you are sitting at rakes and you earn 7 frequent player points for every $1 that you pay in tournament fees.

You can check where you stand on the weekly or monthly leaderboards by visiting the ‘My Account’ section when you are logged into the Cake Poker software.

How Much Can I Win

As mentioned earlier the top prize for each of the weeks and the monthly leaderboard is $1500.  The weekly and monthly leaderboard gives out exactly the same amount of cash, so there are basically 5 different leaderboards throughout the month that award the same cash prizes of online poker real money.  The top prize is $1500, 2nd is $1000, 3rd is $750 and so on right down to 350th spot on the leaderboard earning $15 in cash fro mCake Poker.

Strategy

So you want to get as many frequent player points as you can this month without breaking the bank and risking a ton of money.  The best way to do this is to play extremely tight on a bunch of Cake Poker cash game tables.  This means you should fold preflop the vast majority of the time, only playing on big hands that you have a good chance of winning.  Because Cake Poker uses the dealt method for distributing frequent player points even if you fold preflop you will still receive the same amount of points as the loose aggressive player at the table who is pushing the pace and upping the rake.  Playing extremely tight will also allow you to play more tables because you will not need to concentrate as much playing the flop, turn or river because you will usually be folding or pushing the action preflop.  This strategy may not be the most exciting for players who like to get involved in the hands, but if you are just interested in quickly and quietly racking up FPP’s this is the strategy you should employ.

Ready to start vying for that $1500 from Cake Poker this week.  Visit Cake Poker now to set up an account.  Be sure to use Cake Poker signup code SIGNUP600 to receive a 110% matching bonus up to $600 on your first deposit.

It’s most poker players dream to win a live tournament and at Cake Poker players have the opportunity to do just that.  Cake Poker is currently hosting satellite poker tournaments to both the Super Poker Event of Europe 2012 and the Irish Open 2012.  Each of these tournaments are high profile events where poker players striving to make a name for themselves can do so.  Qualifying for either event is straight forward, you just have to qualify through one of the poker satellites available at Cake Poker.  Learn more about each event below:

2012 Super Poker Event of Europe

This tourney, dubbed ‘Super 2012′ is expected to be the biggest poker event to ever occur in Europe.  There is expected to be over 4,000 players participating in the tourney that will take place in Dublin, Ireland on February 25th and 26th.  The tourney has an estimated prize pool of  €1.2 million and this is from buy-ins of just  €300.  The tournament plays down to a final 8 players on the 26th, but the final table takes place at a secure location on March 31st with all of the action streamed live on the internet.  This is a great tournament for players hoping to get noticed.

Cake Poker is giving players the opportunity to win  $1000 prize packages, which include the  €300 entry buy-in and  cash to help with travel and accommodation expenses.  There are still two Super Poker $1000 Final satellites that you can participate in (January 15th and February 12th).  Each of these satellites has a $50 buy-in and awards as many $1000 prize packages as possible.  There are also 3 smaller buy-in “step like” satellites that you can participate in if you don’t want to shell out the $50 for one of the finals.

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2012 Irish Open

The Irish Open will not have as large a player pool as the Super Poker Event of Europe, but the buy-in and prize packages are much larger.  The buy-in for the event is  €3500 and the prize packages being awarded by Cake Poker are for $6000, which includes the event buy-in plus spending money for expenses.  The Irish Open is set to take place in Dublin in early April at the Burlington Hotel.

You can win the prize packages every other Sunday in the Irish Open $6K Finals, which are $200 + $15 tournaments where at least one package to the Irish Open is guaranteed.

Both of these tournaments are going to be high profile tourneys that could launch a player into poker stardom.  Visit Cake Poker now to start attempting to qualify for the events and be sure to use Cake Poker sign up code SIGNUP600 to receive the 110% matching bonus up to $600!

It seems like more and more online poker rooms are adding online casino extensions to their poker rooms.  This may be in the form of a full blown online casino or maybe just a few online casino games such as mini roulette, black jack, video poker and some of the other more popular online casino games.  Titan Poker and PKR, two of the more prominent online poker rooms have launched full blown online casinos, while many other poker rooms such as Carbon and the rooms on their network have launched some sidegames that players can play if they get bored of the casino.  The casino not only brings in more money for the online poker room, but it also gives players more variety and choice if they just feel like gambling a little bit.  It’s actually surprising that Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, the two largest online poker rooms have decided not to branch into the online casino spectrum, but instead are focussed on providing players with the best online poker experience possible.

So What Is Cake Poker Doing in Regards to Casino Games?

Cake actually recently added some different games that are similar to online casino games, but they are played as an online poker format.  These games include tournament blackjack and Cake war.  The problem with these games is they require others to play them as well, but it doesn’t seem like there is much interest so its hard for the games to get off the ground.  Here is a brief overview of the games:

Tournament Blackjack

Tournament blackjack involves playing against other players so there is actually no house advantage.  Instead players must have more chips than their opponents after the final round of the tourney blackjack game.  The tournaments have a set number of hands and it is the goal to have the most chips at the end of the last hand.  Needless to say a lot of strategy can come into play making tournament blackjack a great alternative to poker.

Cake War

This is a Cake Poker invention and is a very interesting game.  Each player is given a bin of cards from 1-10 to start the game.  There are then 10 rounds where a dealer card is turned up in the middle of the table.  Each player then selects which card from their bin they would like to bet in order to try to win the card.  The highest card bet takes the dealers card, but if two players bet the same card they cancel each other out and the next highest card wins.  At the end of the tenth round, whichever players cards add up to the highest total wins the game.  This is another game that is played against other opponents, but it is moving towards casino games because it is a bit similar to casino war.

Cake Pokers Casino

In simple terms Cake Poker does not have an online casino and does not even offer online casino games.  If you are interested in learning more about online casino games click here.  Casino games are a lot of fun and can provide a great break from the thinking and strategizing of online poker.  Sometimes people just want to gamble and that is what casino games are great for.  It makes good business sense for poker rooms to offer casino games to their players, so I expect a shift in this direction very soon.

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!

Cake Poker gold cards are awarded to players taking part in Cake cash games.  Basically, what happens is every time a table reaches a predetermined amount of rake a gold card is randomly taken out of the vault and if the gold card matches one of your hole cards, even if you folded during the hand, you are awarded that gold card and it is added to your collection.  Therefore, playing in a gold card hand can happen at any time, even on your first hand, but the more time you spend at the tables, the greater chance a gold card will be issued.

Different gold cards hold different values based on the card and series.  The cards that are more rare and harder to obtain have a higher value.  Check out the gold card odds chart.  The odds range anywhere from 1 in 7 to a super rare 1 in 5,000,000.  Safe to say the Ace of spades is quite valuable.

Your gold card collection can be viewed in your Cake Poker rewards section and don’t worry there is no time limit on using your cards, as they don’t expire.

Speaking of using your cards, there are a bunch of ways your gold card collection can help you.  The gold card daily lottery is one way to use your gold cards.  It’s very simple.  Every day Cake poker chooses a gold card and attaches a prize to it such as instant cash, or tournament tickets, etc.  If you have the card that is chosen in your collection, then you can redeem it for the days prize.

The gold card 500 is a race every month of Cake Poker, where each gold card received is worth a set amount of miles in a race.  Also, the lower the limit you receive the card at the more miles you earn, because there is less opportunities for you to receive gold cards.  This keeps it fair and allows players at any limits to win.  The player who gets the most miles in the month wins $500.  There are also prizes for 2nd through 10th, with 10th being the lowest at $110.

If you see your gold card collection growing quickly, then maybe there is hope for you to win the $52K gold card jackpot.  The first player to collect all 52 cards in the series wins the jackpot.  I assure you this is no easy feat, and only the most dedicated Cake poker players have a real shot at winning this prize.

There are also a few other ways to use your gold cards, so make sure you check them out here.

Don’t have a Cake Poker account?  Well use our Cake Poker sign up code and get started earning your very own gold cards.  Win the jackpot and report back here .

Simply put a Cake Poker gold chip is what you earn when you reach a set number of Frequent Player Points by playing at any Cake Poker ring game or tournament. 

Every time you are dealt a hand at a ring game and the rake of that hand equals or exceeds $1, you FPP’s equal to the amount of rake.  For example if the rake is $1.50 you earn 1.5 FPP’s.  As for tournaments, you earn 7 FPP’s for every $1 in tournament fees that you pay.

Now for how these FPP turn into the gold chips.  Every month begins by your first 120 FPP’s turning into a gold chip.  Then the subsequent gold chips are earned with fewer and fewer FPP’s until your 5th gold chip just requires 70 FPP.  The 6th gold chip is then free, and 7th and beyond all remain at 70 FPP.  Check out the table from Cake Poker below:

Now that you have your gold chips you can figure out how to use them.  There are always gold chip tournaments that you can enter on Cake to increase your gold chip totals.  Then every week or so there is a big tournament with a gold chip buy-in.  These tournaments range anywhere from $5000 guaranteed to $15000 guaranteed, just for using your gold chips.

You can also purchase Cake merchandise from the Cake shop for as little as 100 gold chips.  The Cake shop has a lot to offer, with XBOX 360′s, Ipods, Poker Books, and even entry into live tournaments.

To earn some of your own gold chips, sign up at Cake Poker using the Cake Poker Sign Up Code.

Cake poker has a ton of ways to get your money onto their site, but not all of these options allow cash outs as well.  Lets take a look at some of the most common deposit methods, what their limits are and if they also allow withdrawals through that same means.

The best way to deposit onto Cake poker is through one of the methods that allow withdrawals.  These methods include Moneybookers, Neteller, EcoCard, UseMyWallet and eWalletXpress.  Of these 5 options only UseMyWallet and eWalletXpress allow USA deposits and withdrawals, but players from other countries can use any of the above.  All the above methods have a $25 deposit minimum.

Players (including Americans) can also use more traditional means such as Visa or Mastercard to deposit, each of which has a $50 minimum.  Diners Club International is another common options with a $25 limit.  However, none of these methods allow withdrawals.

There are also plenty other country specific deposit options, but none of them allow withdrawals.  You can see the entire list here.

Cake’s maximum deposit is $500 per day, $1000 per week and $2000 per month.

If you are going to make a deposit make sure you use our cake sign up code, ‘THE500′ to ensure you get the best deposit bonus possible!