Cake Poker and disconnect policies

[3mptyseat]

I can't believe that an untimely internet hiccup would cost me such a significant amount of money.

I had over 10$ already invested in the pot before the timeout. This is unbelievable.

I think that if this is a 'significant' amount of money (I assume in relation to ur bankroll) than u r playing at a stake that is above ur means. I have played cards as a prop in the local card rooms here in california for $8.75 an hour plus (or minus) what I made in the game, and from my experience, when I was complaining about a "significant" amount lost in one pot, I was gambling hard, and not playing skillful poker. These days, I would never have more than 5-7 percent of my BR on a table, period. And I would never buy in for more than 2-4 percent of my working BR. I hate to admit this, but when I am playing profitable poker, the stakes and the pots are so relatively insignificant compared to my entire BR, that the games are boring and I often catch myself nodding off or thinking about home...

That being said, I still feel for you, its an awfully frustrating way to lose a hand. Given all of the ways one can lose a hand, given all of the misreads and human error, making the nuts and doing everything right is the most frustrating way to go.

A number of networks out there offer a variety of game speeds including a number of 'all in protection' tables that feature incredibly slow action and where such time outs would lead to an "all-in" situation for the player timing out, with any betting amongst remaining hands in the pot going on the side.
Try those games, if u got a crap connection...

Good luck trying to get Lee Jones and Cake to change anything they didn't already plan on changing... I just think the games are slow enough there without a number of 60plus second time delays for players with less than adequate connections...

[pokeraddict]

I didn't see this at first. Cake has serious connection issues and their new 2.0 software is a POS. There are threads all over poker forums about the issues. Cake knows they have issues but seem to ignore them and act like nothing is wrong. I wrote a long blog post calling out Cake Poker and their management. Lately they have not been doing anything right and the industry is running away from them. Their traffic has tanked for all of 2010 and they don't seem to care.