You’ve heard of Gold Chips and Gold Cards on the popular USA-facing site Cake Poker, but now the room has shaken up its rewards program by introducing Gold Stacks. Instant bonuses will be automatically placed in players’ accounts.
While accumulating Gold Chips on Cake Poker, customers will also be building Gold Stacks. Every time a stack is completed, a player will take home a prize. A total of 50 levels of Gold Stacks are available and each requires a certain number of stacks and a specific number of chips in each stack. For example, in a graphic posted on Cake Poker’s website, Level 20 requires 11 Gold Stacks to advance to Level 21 and 40 Gold Chips are required for each stack.
A guaranteed instant reward is available regardless of how long it takes a player to fulfill the requirements for one level. However, if players advance quickly, they’ll earn additional bonuses. Cake Poker explains, “The faster you fill each stack, the more rewards you’ll reap. If you want to play against the clock, visit My Account while logged into Cake Poker to the view time remaining to earn Turbo and Super Turbo rewards.” Once players reach a Gold Stack level, they can only fall back if they fail to rack up three Gold Chips in back-to-back months.
In a press release distributed by Cake Poker on Friday night, the site’s Card Room Manager, Lee Jones, commented, “This is a great new program for Cake players. It rewards them simply for playing in our ring games, tournaments, and sit and gos. Furthermore, it does it automatically. The player doesn’t have to do anything; they’ll just see extra gold chips or cash drop into their account.” In an interview with Poker News Daily, Jones stressed the automatic filling of bonuses as being one-of-a-kind compared to other sites, where players must take action to reap rewards.
Additional Gold Chips, pending bonuses, and cold hard cash are available for Gold Stack fulfillment. Jones explained, “We’re also proud to have a program that doesn’t keep the player on a treadmill to maintain a level. With just a negligible amount of play, a player maintains the level that they’re at. We understand that our players have lives outside of poker and if they need to be away for a month, we respect that. When they come back at the end of the month, they’ll be at exactly the same level as when they left and can pick right back up from there.” Players cannot fall back a level below #11 and, according to Jones, just “showing up for a little bit” should be enough to earn the three Gold Chips required to maintain a player’s current level.
Last weekend, the Cake Poker Network, of which Cake Poker is the flagship site, ran its monthly $250,000 Guaranteed. The $268 buy-in tournament attracted 1,286 runners, boasting a $321,000 prize pool. In the end, “PIIIGEEEOOON” earned the $63,000 first place prize, while “thepokerkinq” earned a sum of $44,000 for second. The top 180 players finished in the money, while the top six earned at least $10,000.
According to the traffic ranking site PokerScout.com, the Cake Poker Network is the 10th largest worldwide with a seven-day running average of 1,900 real money ring game players. Other sites that join Cake Poker on its namesake network include DoylesRoom, Lock Poker, Players Only, and Poker Host. Its traffic is on par with that found on Boss Media’s International Poker Network and the Microgaming Network. The Cake Poker Network is the fourth largest to accept players from the United States.
The Gold Stacks rewards program kicks off on December 9th on Cake Poker.
