Cake Poker Quick Review (small # of hands though)
Just wanted to put this out there for anyone who hasn't been to cake poker yet - after downloading the hand history converter from 2+2 for pokertracker (not tested yet) I put in some money and gave cake poker a whirl. Up to this point I had avoided cake poker only because I couldn't easily input my hand history to track my results. So anyways. Small sample size of about 2k hands. And all my friends have been screaming about how soft the game is there at all levels, at least for poker. It sure is one heck of a soft game!!!
If you have some extra bankroll to move around or diversify I highly endorse this move now. In one night of normal play - doing nothing unusual and not running particularly "hot" I almost doubled my deposit playing full ring cash games. The bonus moves excruciatingly slow to my mind but after finding the games as soft as they are, I don't care about that so much.
As an aside to this - several of my friends have also commented that they weren't too happy with the omaha hi tables either 6 or full. Apparently omaha team play was a problem and that might be something to avoid. I have no idea, not experienced it (yet) myself on their site so just more of a fyi than anything else.
If you have some extra bankroll to move around or diversify I highly endorse this move now. In one night of normal play - doing nothing unusual and not running particularly "hot" I almost doubled my deposit playing full ring cash games. The bonus moves excruciatingly slow to my mind but after finding the games as soft as they are, I don't care about that so much.
As an aside to this - several of my friends have also commented that they weren't too happy with the omaha hi tables either 6 or full. Apparently omaha team play was a problem and that might be something to avoid. I have no idea, not experienced it (yet) myself on their site so just more of a fyi than anything else.
Comments
The software in my opinion is horrible compared to the other sites I play (Cryptos, Stars). It is even worse then Party Poker, though not quite Pacific Poker bad. As a result, I tended to just have 1 or 2 tables running at most, generally small limits, while concentrating on other play elsewhere.
The good news is that the players there tend to be pretty bad. Without even putting any thought into the game (no HUD use, no reads, no nothing), I was able to grind out decent wins for the levels fairly easily. For NL I played their .10/20 games and for Omaha I stuck with the $10 and $20 buy in games (sometimes even the .02/.04 games with pot averages of $5+) since as the poster above mentioned there did seem to be some "creative" play at the $100+ buy in games in terms of team play.
There also seems to be a ton of bots at the lower levels at least, though they seem to be fairly easy to beat.
The gold chip/card stuff they do is fine, though not a ton of value added. Rakeback is a good idea if you plan to play there a ton, otherwise do a gift signup with PSO.
Pretty much everything is deducted from rakeback, so timing your withdraws on months you play very little is +EV
Overall my estimate of how I did is about the following:
I did a $500 deposit (got a $500 bonus), and in 3 months of very limited amounts of play
- cleared about $120 of the bonus
- won about $100 or so outright on cash tables
- won $20 or something in the new player tourney
- won about $50 in gold chip/card tournies
- won $900 by finishing 2nd in a raketherake affiliate freeroll (made me happy I chose that route instead of the gift one after the fact :P)
- got about $10 in rakeback
I have not played there since, though I may deposit for the current reload. If their software was better I probably would be more excited about them.