33% Cake Poker Rakeback

Cake Poker Rakeback Review

Cake Poker is the flagship site of the Cake Poker Network, the largest site to allow rakeback to U.S. players. When you sign up for Cake Poker through RakeTracker you will receive 33% rakeback, the highest rakeback percentage allowed on the Cake Poker Network.

Cake Poker uses the dealt method to calculate rakeback, which attributes rake to players based on table rake. This method is often preferred by tight players who get more benefit vs. the contributed method because they earn rakeback even on hands they don’t contribute money. Players will also be happy to find out that Cake Poker does not deduct anything from MGR.

Cake Poker is the 3rd most popular network to accept players from the US. Cake Poker will automatically pay rakeback every Thursday for play during the previous Wednesday-Tuesday period. You can check your rakeback right in the Cake Poker software by clicking on "My Account" from the client and then clicking on your "VIP Status" button, which is only available for rakeback players. Click on this button to see your daily.

Do not use Cake Poker Refer a Friend program when you sign up as it will prevent you from receiving rakeback.

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Cake Poker Summary:

Cake Poker, the flagship site of the Cake Poker Network, has grown rapidly since 2006 to become one of the internet’s top networks to accept USA players. Despite being a popular destination for US players, they also open their games to players from much of the rest of the world. The site is most widely known for their lucrative dealt rakeback and extra promotions.

The thousands of daily real money players populate the No Limit Hold’em, Fixed Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha tables. Tournament players get their fix from abundant satellites, Gold Chip/Gold Card and guaranteed tournaments, which also feature a $25,000 guaranteed, held on Sundays. Players can qualify for the World Series for as little as $1.10.

Cake Poker’s popular and fun promotions feature Loyalty Levels and a series of gold-themed promotions: Gold Chips, Gold Cards and Gold Sprees. These reward promotions are in addition to 33% rakeback. That’s not all – they still offer some of the most attractive sign-up bonus and reload bonuses available today. Cake Poker also recently introduced the innovative Gold Card Exchange, allowing players to buy and sell earned Gold Cards on the marketplace.

Cake Poker Deposit and Withdrawal Methods
Method	US Players	Deposit	Withdrawal	Notes
Visa	Yes	Yes	No	Low Success Rate for US players
Mastercard	Yes	Yes	No	Low Success Rate for US players
Local Money Transfer	Yes	Yes	No
check	Yes	No	Yes	Must be over $500, $35 fee for subsequent monthly withdrawals
Electron	Yes	Yes	No	Low Success Rate for US players
Neteller	No	Yes	Yes	China and Taiwan are processed by 1-Pay
Skill (Moneybookers)	No	Yes	Yes
Visa	No	Yes	No
Mastercard	No	Yes	No
ClickandBuy	No	Yes	Yes
Ecocard	No	Yes	No
Visa Electron	No	Yes	No
Solo	No	Yes	No	UK option
Maestro	No	Yes	No	UK, Austria and Spain option
Delta	No	Yes	No
Diner's Club	No	Yes	No
Ukash	No	Yes	No
Sofortuberweisung	No	Yes	No	German option
Giropay	No	Yes	No	German option
Paysafecard	No	Yes	No	German and Austrian option
Webmoney	No	Yes	Yes
Poli	No	Yes	No	Austrailian option
Bpay	No	Yes	No	Austrailian option, 1-2 business days
Paydirect	No	Yes	Yes	Asian option
Laser	No	Yes	No
4b	No	Yes	No	Spanish option
Pko Bank Polski	No	Yes	No	Polish option
Enets	No	Yes	No	Singapore option
DK	No	Yes	No	Danish option
Postepay	No	Yes	No	Italian option
CartaSi	No	Yes	No	Italian option
Ideal	No	Yes	No	Netherlands option
inteligo	No	Yes	No	Polish option
Mtransfer	No	Yes	No	Polish option
Euro6000	No	Yes	No	Spanish option

Player to Player Transfers: Yes, $5 minimum. Transfer by going to "Cashier" and then the "Transfer." Player can make one transfer per day. Both players must have active real money accounts.

Attributes:

Network:

Cake Poker Network

Established:

2006

USA Accepted:

Yes

EU Licensed:

No

Jurisdiction:

Curacao

Public Company:

No

Operator:

Cake Gaming

Accounts on Multiple Skins:

No restrictions, however, players may only have one rakeback account on the network. Also, players need to register for subsequent Cake Network accounts by using a different email address.

Restricted Countries:

None

Restricted States:

Kentucky

Mobile Version:

Yes

Download Versions:

Windows

No Download Vers.:

N/A

Website Languages:

English and German

Email:

support@cakepoker.com

Live Chat:

No

Phone Help:

No

Cake Poker Rakeback Help:

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Cake Poker Software

Multi-tabling:

Unlimited

Features:

Resizable tables (604x440 min, 956x737 max), username changes, detachable chats, resizable lobby, tournament calendar.

Hands per hour:

84- NL Hold’em Full Ring, 99- NL Hold’em Shorthanded, 67- Fixed Limit Hold’em Full Ring, 102- Fixed Hold’em Shorthanded. 124- NLHE Shorthanded Speed

Client Languages:

English

Mac Friendly Client:

No

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Cake Poker Bonus Details

Bonus: 110% up to $600
Referral Bonus Code: RT33
Clear Rate: 16.67 FPPs per $1 of bonus money.

Earning FPPs Points: Each players earn 0.50 in FPPs for every $1 in rake taken from the table. At MTTs or SNGs, players will earn 3.5 FPPs for every $1 in tournament fees.

Additional Terms: The bonus will release in $5 increments. Any bonus not released will expire 90 days after your first deposit. Bonuses are not deducted from MGR.

Account Specific and Reload Bonuses

Cake Poker is from the old school in the fact that they still offer periodic, standard reload bonuses for all players. Reload bonuses are offered every couple of months and usually are either $100 or $300. Cake Poker players also report decent success rates when asking for reload bonuses. Players can also receive bonuses as part of the Loyalty Rewards program.

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Rakeback Equivalents -- Cash Games
Cash Games	Full Ring	Shorthanded
Sign-Up Bonus RB Equivalent	27%	18%
Adds to 33% RB	27% (60% total)	18% (51% total)

Rakeback Equivalents -- Tournaments
Tournaments	Full Ring
Sign-Up Bonus RB Equivalent	21%
Adds to 33% RB	21% (54% total)

Games

Cake Poker offers all the standard Hold'em games: No Limit, Pot Limit and Fixed Limit. All games are available in 2, 6 or 9 seats. Cake Poker also offers PL and Fixed Limit Omaha, although only $0.50/$1.00 and $1/$2 are run for Fixed Limit. A button for Stud games is visible in the lobby; however, no tables are viewable. Cake Poker does not offer any other games, making the site lag behind other sites in game selection.

Cake Poker’s traffic has decreased of late and as a result, most of the action available at No Limit Hold'em is below $3/$6 and $0.50/$1 at Limit Hold'em. All other activity takes place at the Pot Limit Omaha tables. Action will occasionally develop at the remaining Omaha games.

At NL Hold'em, two different buy-in levels are offered- standard and shallow. Shallow tables have a 20 big blind minimum and 50 big blind maximum, whereas standard tables run with buy-in levels ranging from 30 to 100 big blinds. Cash games are available in two speeds – Normal and Turbo.

Hold'em
Hold'em	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
No Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$.04-$500/$1000	Up to $10/$20	Turbo, Shallow
Pot Limit	2,6,9	$0.05/$.10-$3/$6	Limited
Fixed Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$.04-$100/$200	Up to $4/$8	Turbo

Omaha
Omaha	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
Pot Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$.04-$500/$1000	up to $10/$20
Fixed Limit	9	$0.50/$1-$1/$2	Limited

Omaha Hi/Lo
Omaha Hi/Lo	# of Seats	Offered	Available*	Types
Pot Limit	2,6,9	$0.02/$0.04-$25/$50	up to $0.20/$0.40
Fixed Limit	6,9	$0.05/$0.10-$30/$60	Limited
No Limit	6,9	$0.05/$0.10-$10/$20	Limited

Other Games: N/A

Multi-Table Tournaments

As one of the top sites to accept USA players, Cake Poker has a wide array of tournament offerings. Guaranteed tournaments such as the weekly $25k and the $15k are popular draws. Players can buy in for each tournament with $162 or $109, respectively. The largest daily guaranteed tournament is a $50+$5 event held at 8 PM ET. Multiple daily satellites are held with buy-ins as low as $1.

Throughout the year, Cake Poker offers satellites to the most prestigious event in the world such as the WSOP, WPT and Aussie Millions. Satellites to popular guaranteed tournaments and Live events have buy-ins as low as $2, with many of them available daily. With Bounty tournaments, a portion of each prize pool is given away to players for knocking out opponents.

Also available at Cake Poker are Gold Card tournaments that award cash prizes, satellites entries to some of the most popular multi-table tournaments. Gold Cards are given randomly to one player for a select amount of rake. Gold Cards with high ranks can be quite valuable as fewer players will have them, resulting in great overlay for those that enter.

Cake Poker now runs synchronized MTT breaks at 55 minutes past the hour. This means if you are playing multiple tournaments simultaneously that all tournaments will go on break at the same time, allowing players to take an actual break.

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Featured Tournaments
Name	Buy-in	When	Gtd.	Sat
$25k Guaranteed	$150+$12	Sunday at 3 PM ET/19:00 GMT	$25k	Yes
$15k Guaranteed	$100+$9	Sundays at 10 AM ET/14:00 GMT	$15k	Yes
$5k Guaranteed	$50+$5	Daily at 6 PM ET/2200 GMT	$10k	Yes

SNGs

All of the Sit N Go action at Cake Poker’s is at No Limit Hold'em, except for a few Heads-up and low buy-in Fixed Limit SNGs. Buy-ins for the No Limit Hold’em Sit N Gos range from $1 all the way to up $5000 with most of the available action will be found at buy-ins below $33. Cake Poker offers their SNGs with 2, 6 or 10 seats. There is also multi-table SNGs with 20 or 30 seats, with games running at only the smallest buy-ins. The games are primarily populated at 2, 6 and 10 seat SNGs.

The game types at Cake Poker run the gamut. The main types include Turbo, Super Turbo, Double-Up and Kamikaze tournaments. In Turbo events, the blinds increase every 6 minutes. With Super-Turbo SNGs, blinds will only last 2 minutes. In "Double-Up" SNGs -- more commonly referred to as "Double or Nothing" -- the top 5 players win double the tournament buy-in. Kamikaze SNGs will require players to go all-in every hand.

Note that the buy-in fees for the SNGs can range greatly based on type. For example, the $1 Kamikaze has a buy-in fee of $0.05, the standard 30-seat $1 and $1 Short Stack SNGs have a buy-in fee of $0.10. The $1 standard 10 person table has a buy-in fee of $0.20.

Cake Poker also runs SNGs that players can buy-in with Gold Chips. These events are available by clicking the Gold Chip/Gold Card graphic towards the center of the client when clicking on "Tournaments." The Gold Chip SNGs will often award satellites into popular guaranteed tournaments or bounty events. Also popular at Cake Pokerare Gold Chip SNGs that award additional Gold Chips. In "Double Up to Cash" SNGs, Cake Poker will award real money.

Cake Poker Rake Schedule

Cake Poker Rake Schedule
# of Players		2	3	4	5-9
Fixed Limit	$0.02/0.04-$0.05/$0.10	$0.01 per $0.15, $0.50 max (6.7%)	$0.01 per $0.15, $1 max (6.7%)	$0.01 per $0.15, $1 max (6.7%)	$0.01 per $0.15, $2 max (6.7%)
Fixed Limit	$0.10/$0.20	$0.01 per $0.20, $0.50 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $2 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $3 max (5%)
Fixed Limit	$0.25/0.50-$0.50/$1	$0.05 per $1, $0.50 max (5%)	$0.05 per $1, $1 max (5%)	$0.05 per $1, $1 max (5%)	$0.05 per $1, $1 max (5%)
Fixed Limit	$1/$2	$0.25 per $5, $0.50 max (5%)	$0.25 per $5, $1 max (5%)	$0.25 per $5, $1 max (5%)	$0.25 per $5, $1 max (5%)
Fixed Limit	$2/$4 and Up	$0.50 per $10, $0.50 max (5%)	$0.50 per $10, $1 max (5%)	$1 per $20, $2 max (5%)	$1 per $20, $3 max (5%)
No Limit	$0.01/0.02-$0.05/$0.10	$0.01 per $0.15, $0.50 max (6.7%)	$0.01 per $0.15, $1 max (6.7%)	$0.01 per $0.15, $1 max (6.7%)	$0.01 per $0.15, $2 max (6.7%)
No Limit	$0.10/$0.20	$0.01 per $0.20, $0.50 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $1 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $2 max (5%)	$0.01 per $0.20, $3 max (5%)
No Limit	$0.25/$.50 and up	$0.05 per $1, $0.50 max (5%)	$0.05 per $1, $1 max (5%)	$0.05 per $1, $2 max (5%)	$0.05 per $1, $3 max (5%)

Example: At a $1/$2 fixed limit Hold'em game with 6 players seated and dealt cards, $0.25 in rake would be taken for each $5 in the pot up to a total of $1 in rake. Once the pot reaches $20, no further rake is taken. "5%" represents the % of the pot that is raked from the table at the time the rake is taken. Because many pots do not end up being raked (i.e. if no flop is seen) or if the pot is in between rake levels, effective rake levels are lower.

RakeTracker Exclusive Promotions

$60,000 Exclusive Rake Race

RakeTracker players can take advantage of four weekly $15,000 exclusive Rake Races each month. The leaderboard will pay the top 300 rake generators with cash prizes of between $13 to $1,250. Players are automatically enrolled.

Free Poker Coaching

Drag the Bar

Players that rake $1 or more during their first month at Cake Poker can receive Free Poker Coaching through Drag the Bar. Simply register a Cake Poker account through RakeTracker following the sign-up instructions at the top of this page and then generate at least $1 in rake on Cake Poker. After generating $1 or more, make sure to register through the Cake Poker Drag the Bar page.

Players can qualify for Drag the Bar in subsequent months by raking $500 or more

Deuces Cracked

RakeTracker players that rake $500 or more a month can qualify for Free Poker Coaching through DeucesCracked each month. For full details on the Deuces Cracked offer, see our DeucesCracked Free Poker Coaching page.

Gold Chips

Cake Poker players earn FPPs when playing real money cash games and tournaments at Cake Poker. Players can also earn Gold Chips at a rate of 1 per 100 FPPs earned. Gold Chips can be used to enter special tournaments.

Loyalty Levels Rewards Program

Cake Poker's in house VIP program, the Gold Stacks Rewards Program, can be taken advantage of by rakeback players. The Gold Stacks Rewards Program consists of 50 levels paying Gold Chips, bonuses and cash prizes to players who complete a stack.

Players will be required to earn Gold Chips to complete a Stack. Once the Stack is completed, the player will be rewarded a prize based on how fast the stack was completed. A minimum prize is awarded with no time requirement, a "Turbo" reward will be given when a Gold Stack is completed within 4-6 days and a "Super Turbo" reward will be awarded to those that complete the stack within 3 days. Depending on the level, the player will either complete another Stack in the level or move on to the next level. The further a player advances in the program, the higher the rewards will be.

Players cannot lose a level if they are in levels 1-10. Once players advance past this milestone, they will be required to earn 3 Gold Chips over two consecutive months to maintain the status.

Gold Cards

Gold Cards are rewarded to the table once a predetermined rake amount has been hit, believed to be around $20. The higher the stakes that are being played, the more often Gold Cards will be rewarded. Once the rake level is reached, a Gold Card will be given randomly to one player at the table. The higher the rank of your Gold Card, the rarer it is and thus more valuable the card will be for use in future promotions.

Gold Cards can be used to enter multi-table tournaments, Match and Win promotions and for use in the Gold Card Exchange.

Cake Poker Freerolls

New Depositor Freerolls

Cake Poker allows new depositors to enter a weekly "$1000 New Depositor Freeroll" to be held on Saturday at 2 PM ET/18:00 GMT.

$1,000 Bankroll Freeroll

Held each Saturday at 2:15 PM ET/18:15 GMT. Players must qualify via one of Cake Poker's freeroll satellite.

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Loyalty Levels Rewards Program
Level #	FPPs Per Stack	Tiers in Level	Gtd Prize	Turbo Prize	Super Turbo Prize
0	100	1	1 GC	2 GC	3 GC
1	200	1	2 GC	4 GC	6 GC
2	300	1	3 GC	6 GC	9 GC
3	400	1	4 GC	8 GC	12 GC
4	500	1	5 GC	10 GC	15 GC
5	600	1	6 GC	12 GC	18 GC
6	700	1	7 GC	14 GC	21 GC
7	800	1	9 GC	17 GC	26 GC
8	900	1	10 GC	20 GC	30 GC
9	1000	1	12 GC	24GC	36 GC
10	1100	1	$1.50	$2.00	$2.50
11	1200	1	$1.50	$2.50	$3.00
12	1300	1	$1.50	$2.50	$3.00
13	1400	2	$2.00	$2.50	$3.50
14	1500	3	$2.00	$3.00	$3.50
15	1600	4	$2.00	$3.00	$4.00
16	1700	5	$2.00	$3.00	$4.00
17	1800	6	$2.50	$3.50	$4.50
18	1900	7	$2.50	$3.50	$4.50
19	2000	8	$2.50	$4.00	$5.00
20	2100	9	$3.00	$4.00	$5.50
21	2200	10	$3.00	$4.50	$6.00
22	2300	11	$3.50	$5.00	$6.50
23	2400	12	$3.50	$5.00	$7.00
24	2500	13	$4.00	$5.50	$7.50
25	2600	14	$4.00	$6.00	$8.00
26	2700	15	$4.50	$6.50	$8.50
27	2800	16	$4.50	$7.00	$9.00
28	2900	17	$5.50	$7.00	$9.50
29	3000	18	$5.00	$7.50	$10.00
30	3100	19	$6.00	$8.00	$10.50
31	3200	20	$6.50	$9.00	$11.00
32	3300	21	$6.50	$9.50	$12.00
33	3400	22	$7.00	$10.00	$12.50
34	3500	23	$7.50	$10.50	$13.50
35	3600	24	$8.00	$11.00	$14.00
36	3700	25	$8.50	$11.50	$15.00
37	3800	26	$9.00	$12.50	$15.50
38	3900	27	$9.50	$14.00	$16.50
39	4000	28	$10.00	$14.00	$18.00
40	4100	29	$12.00	$15.50	$19.50
41	4200	30	$13.00	$17.00	$21.00
42	4300	31	$14.00	$18.50	$23.00
43	4400	32	$15.50	$20.50	$25.50
44	4500	33	$17.00	$22.50	$28.00
45	4600	34	$18.50	$24.50	$30.50
46	4700	35	$20.50	$27.00	$33.50
47	4800	36	$22.50	$29.50	$37.00
48	4900	37	$24.50	$32.50	$40.50
49	5000	38	$26.50	$35.50	$44.00
50	5100	Infinite	$29.00	$38.50	$48.00

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