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.

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!

According to Poker News Daily Cake Poker is no longer accepting players residing in the state of Kentucky.  This stems from the fact that 141 gambling related domains were seized from their owners by the state of Kentucky in September.  The domains seized included domains from some of the top poker sites including PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, but also including Cake.

The court stated that companies the ceased taking customers from Kentucky would be left alone in terms of future legal action.  The Merge Gaming network was the first to stop accepting players from Kentucky, but allowed their current Kentucky players to continue to play.  Cake has recently followed suit.

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