The Cake Network was a Curaçao based online poker network owned and operated by parent company Cake Gaming NV. Cake Network was founded in 2004 and launched its first network skin, Cake Poker, in June 2006. Other network partners followed, including Sportsbook.com , Red Star Poker and BetUS .
6-606: As of April 2010 the Cake Network saw a steep decline in player traffic as the company lost two major poker rooms, PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com , to the Merge Gaming Network. Even with the addition of new rooms to the network, Cake continued to lose ground on the rest of the industry. In January 2011, Cake Network's well-known partner Doyles Room left the Cake Network, moving to the Yatahay Network. Cake Poker offered
12-450: A variety of stakes and types of online poker games including: Texas hold 'em , Omaha High / Hi-Lo and Telesina . At one time, Cake Poker was the only site of the 10 largest in the world which allowed players to regularly change their screen names. Cake became notorious among both professional and amateur poker players for not paying cash out requests in good time as stated in its terms and conditions. In June 2012 Lock Poker purchased
18-497: The New Jersey Attorney General initiated civil actions against several online gambling web sites, including Sportsbook.com. The Director of Gaming Enforcement was quoted as saying "The citizens of New Jersey need to be aware that these sports betting operations are not regulated and they are illegal. Regardless of their occasional claims of 'licensing' and 'legality,' they answer to no one and are therefore not held to
24-750: The Cake Poker network, renaming it the Revolution Gaming Network In September 2008, the Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear filed a civil suit asking a Franklin County Circuit Court to grant control of online poker website domain names to the government, including CakePoker.com. In January 2009, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the seizure order issued by Judge Thomas Wingate should be set aside and made
30-552: The decision to halt the forfeiture of the domain names. Sportsbook.com Sportsbook.com is a privately held online gaming firm, featuring sports betting , online poker , casino games and horse race betting that caters to the U.S. market. Prior to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 , Sportsbook.com was owned by Sportingbet , whose sports betting network, also including AllStar.com and Hollywood Sportsbook,
36-494: Was collectively named the "Best U.S. Sportsbook" in 2005 and 2006 by industry magazine eGaming Review . After passage of the Safe Port Act , Sportingbet sold all its U.S.-facing sportsbooks to a privately owned company, Jazette Enterprises Limited, for the sum of $ 1. Sportsbook.com's advertising included an "Everybody Bets" campaign featuring Brooke Burke and Nikki Cox in 2005 and 2006, respectively. On October 16, 2001,
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