Cake Network

The Cake Network is a Curaçao based online poker network, one of the 10 largest in the industry.^[1] Cake Network is owned and operated by parent company Cake Gaming NV. Cake Gaming NV is hosted by Cyberluck, a Curaçao based Regulating and Gaming Licensing & Hosting provider and operates under the gaming license of Cyberluck Curaçao NV.

History

Cake Network was founded in 2004 and launched its first network skin, Cake Poker, in June 2006. Other network partners followed in fairly quick succession including Sportsbook.com, Red Star Poker and BetUS. The Cake Network currently has 35 network skins with its latest network partner Doyles Room, featuring Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson and Mike Caro, joining in January 2009.

As of April 2010 the Cake Network saw a steep decline in player traffic as the company lost two major poker rooms, PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com, to the Merge Gaming Network. Even with the addition of new rooms to the network, Cake has continued to lose ground on the rest of the industry.^[2] In less than a month the Cake Network has dropped significantly on Pokerscout.com's list of most trafficked sites.^[3]

Network Partners

The Cake Network Partners include:

52bet	7WinPoker	All Pro	AllStar
Amsterdams Poker	Belmont	Bet the Globe	BetUS
Bet USA	BettingChamps	Brobury Sports	Bruce Poker
BullFrog Gaming	Burro Poker	Cake Poker	City Poker
DailyDime	Dimeline Sportsbook	Doyle's Room	Ebets
Everybody Plays	EZ Sportsbook	Ezbets	Fantis Poker
Fugu Poker	Global Sports Network	Golden Goose	Gutshot^[4]
Hollywood International	iWager	Juicy Stakes	King Midas Poker
Kingdom Casino & Sportsbook	Liipoker	LinesMaker	Lockpoker^[5]
Logans	Luck3	Mayan Casino	Molten Poker
My Sportsbook.com	NeverFelted	NYC Sportsbook	Only Poker
OnlyWinners	Palladium Casino	PlayersOnly	Poker Max
Pokerbilly	Pokerhost^[6]	Pokerworld^[7]	Power Poker
proBETS	Pure Poker	Rags2Riches	Red Star Poker
Redback Poker	Safari Casino	Sport Fanatik	Sports.com
Sports Interaction	Sportsbetting	Sportsbook.com	StraightFlush.com
Super Sportsbook	Superbook	Superpoker	Tangra
The Greek	Tropical Island Casino Sportsbook	TwoBitPoker	Unabomber Poker
Wager Tonight	Wagerunit	YogaPoker	Zet Poker

Cake Poker

Cake Poker offers a variety of stakes and types of online poker games including: Texas hold 'em, Omaha High and Hi-Lo.

Ring games and tournaments are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Tournament varieties include freerolls, satellites to live events, sit ‘n go tournaments, single-table and multi-table tournaments including a Sunday $250,000 Guaranteed Tournament. They also offer a player rewards program.

Cake Poker is the only site of the 10 largest in the world, which allows its players to regularly change their screen names. By allowing Cake Poker players to change their name every seven days, the advantage of using ID tracking software is mitigated.^[8]

In April 2009, Cake Poker was the first online poker room to offer a mobile poker room, where users can download and play poker from their smartphone.^[9]

In May of 2009, poker author Lee Jones joined Cake Poker as the Card Room Manager.^[10]

Domain dispute

In September 2008, the Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear filed a civil suit asking a Franklin County Circuit Court to grant control of online poker website domain names to the government, including CakePoker.com ^[11].

In January 2009, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the seizure order issued by Judge Thomas Wingate should be set aside^[12] and made the decision to halt the forfeiture of the domain names ^[13].

In February 2009, the Commonwealth of Kentucky appealed the ruling from January 2009 asking to submit a longer appeal brief.^[14]

Notes

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