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.

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.

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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