In a shocking revelation on the 2+2 poker forums, Cake Poker Card-Room Manager Lee Jones announced he was leaving Cake Poker effective immediately. Jones cited recent strategic decisions made by the management as the portents for his leaving. Jones stated on 2+2: “This is a brief announcement to let you know that, as of yesterday, I have resigned my position at Cake Poker andRead Full Article

It’s only been a week since Cake Poker announced the creation of “The Exchange” a peer-to-peer marketplace where players can buy and sell the Gold Cards that they have accumulated at the Cake Poker tables. Gold Cards are awarded randomly at Cake Poker tables at sites like Doyles Room and players can use them to enter tournaments or redeem them for cash prizes, dependingRead Full Article

The last few months have been a big one for the Cake Poker Network.  A new poker skin called Poker King has now joined the 4th largest US-friendly poker network, whose clientele is mainly based in China, Asia. Poker King, which is run and operator by major Asian Gaming Operators SunGame, will be the 65th skin running on the Cake Network.  The news comesRead Full Article

The Cake Poker network has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons recently, but amidst these circumstances the poker network is still proving to be a major player on the online poker scene. Cake Poker has just announced the addition of a new online poker room to their network: Unleashed Poker. The problems for the Cake Poker Network began when Sportsbook andRead Full Article

After PokerTableRatings.com was able to crack Cake Poker’s security encryption last week the popular online poker site underwent a major security upgrade, going from XOR encryption to the more secure SSL encryption. Cake Poker’s card-room manager Lee Jones told Poker News Daily, “Player security is of the utmost importance to us. Our software team has been working overtime to add the SSL layer toRead Full Article

As we previously reported, PokerTableRatings.com recently uncovered a security issue involving the encryption used at Cake Poker. The issue in question is almost a mirror image of the same vulnerability found by PTR at Cereus Poker sites, UB Poker and Absolute Poker, back in May. The Card-Room Manager for Cake Poker, Lee Jones issued a public statement on the matter yesterday, citing what theRead Full Article

Well, if the government decides not to regulate the online poker industry we can always turn to Poker Table Ratings to hold the online poker sites accountable for their security. For the second time this year PTR has been able to expose a security issue at a major online poker room, this time Cake Poker. PTR is basically a data-mining site, where players canRead Full Article

Cake Poker has launched their very own rewards store where players can now exchange their Gold Chips for a number of items. Cake is offering everything from electronics, to books, to Cake Poker clothing and merchandise; this is in addition to offering tournament vouchers and cold hard cash! Some of the high-end items include gaming consoles like X-Box and Wii; Flat-screen TV’s; Laptops; andRead Full Article

While there is nothing illegal or even unethical with short-stacking –where a player buys-in for about 20BB, the table minimum, and plays a push/fold strategy, and upon doubling up leaves the table to start all over again—many poker players loathe sitting at tables with players implementing this strategy. Besides the complaints online poker sites receive from frustrated players, short-stacking is also an easy wayRead Full Article

I suppose this could be considered the ultimate bad beat. Having the pot awarded to the second best hand is a scenario that only occurs in a poker player’s nightmares, but this is precisely what happened on the Cake Poker network this past week. The hand in question took place in a micro-limit No Limit Holdem game where one player held KhKd vs. AhQs:Read Full Article