The prestigious Card Player magazine has recognised the Cake Poker.com website for purposes of its Card Player Online Player of the Year leaderboard, meaning that the top 20 finishers in this Sunday’s Cake’s $100 000 guaranteed tournament will earn points towards their ranking on the board for 2009. Cake Poker (not the network) becomes the sixth online poker site to be accepted by Card Player.
Cake Poker, established in 2006, now claims to be the fourth-largest poker network that accepts American players (behind PokerStars, Full Tilt, and the Cereus Network) The website currently features a $25 000-guaranteed daily tournament, a $100 000-guaranteed weekly tournament on Sunday, and a $250 000-guaranteed monthly tournament on the last Sunday of every month.
Players should note that for OPOY consideration, no player may change his screen name more than once in 2009, and Card Player must be notified of the change at OnlineZone@CardPlayer.com.