I play on Cake religiously and I want to share what I would love to see added, kept and changed

Add HORSE, Draw, 2-7 and STUD games. And NLO8 mtts
Add ability to register for mtts in advance (up to 12 hrs)
Add auto add on for rebuy mtts (thanks for finally fixing this)
Add more cash out options for US players
Add iphone app and mac support
Add Time Bank for cash games
Add deal it twice feature
Add new avatars

Keep the Ubber-fast cake costumer support... they are top notch
Keep the gold card concept and the tradition but make new use for them, like adding gold card sngs.
Keep the overall table design and feel (the simple view is great) but improve the performance on slow computers and laptops
Keep the Advanced Filter options
Keep the colors for notes on players (this is my favorite feature) I would like to see more colors and larger highlights

Change the way rakeback is distributed. The current delt method is very bad for the game imo
Change the way you are rewarded the satelite tickets (currently it will only show 1 ticket of the same type even if you have 5) and it will automatically register you and most players forget to unregister and therefore miss playing the tourney
Change or eliminate the gold chips and loyalty levels

I wish yall a great success!

my hud works fine when i play on merge. it's when i play on cake thats the problem (the hud works fine but the seats are in different orders on each table). also there is no seating preferences for the cake network in holdem manager so that could be the issue. i am using holdem manager 1 instead of 2.

+1

Cake used to have the COOLEST promos back in the day. Their cake shop was one of my favorite poker site stores on the net. I got an apple t.v., rum cake, ipods (2), and a whole bunch of other things. Now all I can get is stupid $100 bonuses PLEASE bring back the cake shop...I loved it (I grinded so many extra hands to get my apple t.v., only way the wife would let me get one)

In other words, stores with cool things = makes me googogogog/grind. Because my wife is cool with anything I buy with poker points (big screen t.v.s, or ipads or computers etc. Even if I "could" get cash for my points, my wife doesn't care and is cool with it cause she knows that extra incentive brings in a lot more money for the family)

Shane,

Pretty pumped about this. I was skeptical at first b/c my gut-reaction was "ugh, gonna be another Doyle's Room fiasco" but upon further reading, I am pretty optimistic about it.

Any plans to revamp the hand history software? I enjoy having the card images for quick viewing, but if the text-portion of the hand history (in the upper right corner of the hh screen) contained every detail of the hand, so as to be able to simply copy/paste into pokerhand or something, I would really appreciate it.

Good luck with the Cakeover!

I see very optimistic future for Cake with Lock takeover!

All you guys complaining about the Cake software obviously don't know ****. If you don't have any recent experience multi-tabling on the new update that was released, don't sound like an idiot and talk about something you don't know.

I multitable on Cake (up to 16 tables) with HUD running with zero lag now. A few months ago, the client would start lagging when you started running 10+ tables and progressively get worse the longer your session was. Now, it runs nearly flawlessly. I haven't had a single lag issue since the big update.

Also, one of the biggest secrets about Cake is how much value they pay out. Their promotions actually ARE very good, between having Dealt RB/rake race/promos. Hopefully Lock is smart and continues to cater to the heavy-volume grinders on the new Revolution.

And for the love of god, keep Dealt RB. Are there any rooms people can think of that have seen GROWTH after switching from Dealt to Contributed? Keep grinders happy. Fish don't give a **** about RB. Dealt RB also means the poker rooms, if they are doing business correctly, make MORE money because grinders pay substantially more rake, and rake=profit for rooms, not deposits=profit. Giving grinders more money actually makes the rooms more money.

will player notes transfer over??

Hi

Yes Intertops will stay on the Revolution Gaming Network (former Cake Network) and we will keep our own cashier to be able to keep our quick processing.


Best regards,

The Intertops Poker Team

Hi

Nothing happens to your account nor to your deal at Intertops!

Best regards,

The Intertops Poker Team

be as creative as you want with the tourney schedule but remember that non- turbo, NLHE freezeouts are the most popular , so please have plenty of them.

you have my support

#excited

It wouldn't hurt if you made the software able to be modded. You know, the cards, table, button, chips, etc. This has proven to be very helpful and successful to many people with PS and FTP.

I play on Intertops and while the software is passable, I'd much rather roll the dice with a completely new package. I'm not a fan of the wait list, lack of information in the lobby (Which tables you're on and what waitlists.)

As a matter of fact, bottom line, the menu system isn't streamlined or easily accessible at all.

All of the fine details of the promos will be out later in the week, the first thing I can confirm is that our $1 million Ronin rake chase is back June 1. http://lockpoker.eu/promos/ronin/

Is this going to help increase the traffic on Cake? Every time I log in there's hardly any games running and doesn't even seem worth playing there any more

+100000

Shane,

Can you see if the new Lock Network can have the guys from tiltbusters modd your stuff?? Would really help on Cake!

http://www.tiltbuster.com/

Can the New Lock Client:

1) Have a mini-mode feature like Merge (the nuts)
2) Have a better Tournament Lobby and Filter?
3) Can you guys just copy Pokerstars or FTP interface for the look and feel for the lobby?

Thanks --- I am sooo looking forward to the new Lock Network!

I am going to give you a different perspective on this from an affiliates point of view.

- When users are trying to join free rolls, they often get an error and cannot register. (If they forget to enter their address etc, it doesn't tell them why, they just get an error message). Get rid of this.

- Sometime 2.0 software just won't let users enter some of our tournaments, so we tell users to use 1.0. (Users don't like either pieces of software though).

- COUPONS, COUPONS, COUPONS. Merge has the ability to allow affiliates to issue coupons to their members for upcoming free rolls \ tournaments. Cake only has the ability to password protect. This is important.

I currently have an account on Lock and on Cake, although neither account has any money in it. Which account should I use?

I would love to see someone come up with some top notch software. I assume it's a money thing, but nobody has even attempted to match software of stars or ft. I think Lock is in an interesting position to make some changes and try to make an impact in the poker world. Good customer service, fast cashouts, good rb, sign some more pros, advertise, come up with software and who knows maybe it can be a major player. Ignore these things and it will just be another crappy option for US players until legislation comes.

Sorry if this was already mentioned but the Cake software is faster if you click the "chat" window to something else like player notes or stats or whatever because sometimes a cursor goes nuts in those windows and it puts a huge drain on your system. So if you click all of them so you can't see player chat, dealer chat, etc it helps.

It's pretty smooth now, for me it starts to slow around 12 tables.

What will happen to rakeback since people on Merge/Cake have different deals, etc?

We can issue tickets to different tournaments on the Network.

Best regards,

The Intertops Poker Team

I agree. Why do I feel like PS has the only management team in the universe that knows how to run a poker site.

- Develop top notch software (Why can't other sites just do what FTP and PS did? Does it really cost that much money to make great software? FTP and PS had their software before they were the biggest sites in the world.)
- Provide great customer service
- Have great promotions and RB
- Profit

I never played on Cake, but I'm trying to be positive about this and that it shakes up the poker alternatives for U.S. players. I play on Merge, but still don't feel comfortable with the software and I don't think I ever will. I just can't get used to it for some reason.

Definitely, we are bringing a strong player base over, with a good mix of grinders and casual players which will be well incentivised with promotions so there should be a lot more action.


We are very focussed on revamping the lobby especially, we think we have some great original ideas on how that can work.

Our first priority is getting our players moved over with great promotions so they can get playing right away, once live our very next task is an update of the software.


As a Lock rep I'd say you should pick Lock, very shortly they will both be on the same software but Lock will have better promotions.


Im putting together a list of all these improvement ideas, these are near the top of that list.


We have had several great ideas for the software but haven't had the complete control you need to bring it to life. The most important thing about Revolution is it will give us that control.

Now I'm confused. I thought Lock was purchasing Cake????? Won't Lock now own all the players currently on Cake? If the answer to this is yes, then I will have 2 accounts. One from Cake and one from Lock. Are you saying that Lock will allow me to have 2 accounts? If yes, then that's odd. If no, then which account will I be allowed to play on?

If Cake going to remain a network like Merge? What you said makes sense if that's the case.

I have the same name reg'd on both Cake and Lock, will this be problem? how will it work out?

I'm pretty excited about the switch as I can see this site becoming pretty awesome. Do all your players a favor and hire a support team. It's pretty obvious right now lock doesn't have anyone answering emails from players. There's even a thread on here about a guy waiting over 2months for a check, while nobody responds to his emails. It's pretty tilting to send an email and not get a response for two weeks. Same thing with it taking 3+ weeks to get verified. So help the players out and hire support. If you guys mess this up it's completely your fault, there is no blaming it on merge anymore. Hopefully you guys can run a good business instead of just being a little less ****ty than everyone else. Can't wait for the change, I'll be staying with lock.


Cheers

Will Lock be addressing the backlog of payouts on the current Cake site? I know that it's taking players months to get checks.. is something that will be addressed and expedited? Or will players that cashed out from the Cake network still continue to wait months?