Doyles room

Anybody play here? or know anything about it?

Just wondering, Kind of wanted to play another site other than full tilt just to see whats out there

I used to play on doyle's room a bit, I liked it but there is def. not as much traffic as some of the other sites.

Now part of the Cake Network. Not a huge site. If you're a mid stakes cash player, gold card promos can be lucrative.

Their freerolls are pretty soft. Some say their micro-stakes ring is, but I haven't fared well there-the regs seem to be luckier than I am.

its still open to U.S. right? what about their tournys, anything of note?

Open to most U.S. states (not Kentucky).

Doyle's weekly bounty tourney offers $5k for taking out one of the pros playing, such as doyle and todd brunson, hoyt corkins.

I used to play there before they shut down their site to US players.

They just gave up with no fight when those B.S. laws came into effect regarding deposits into and out of account. Screw doyles and PP for that matter.

I have A Cake account too. I hate everything about that site and wish I never signed up. Only did for the 33 % rakeback. No traffic whatsoever. If you want to multi-table SNGs forget it. Sometimes it takes a half an hour or more just to fill up one $5 SST.

So Doyle's joined Cake poker network? One more reason for me not to go back there.

I started playing on Doyles back in 2007 when I first started out online (Doyles & a few other sites). I liked it at the time. They 'had' some super micro SNG's for 10cents.. where the play was actually better than the $1's on Stars & Fulltilt. So I played ALOT of them.
I also used to play 10nl & 20nl on that site, along with their 'raked-hand' required freerolls (the more raked hands you'd played, the bigger starting stack you'd start the tourney with). THey were $200 to $500 freerolls, smaller fields & had a variety of games (I used to like getting a chance to play Stud Tourney(freeroll)) & actually built up a decent micro roll from playing in them. At one time you could reg. for the freerolls & you'd cash even if sitting out.
I took a leave from there for awhile.... then...
Doyles joined Cake & it's steadily gone downhill.
MTTs to play on there?... pfff... they suck imo. There's a couple to play for buyin ~$10-25 & that's about it. It's a pathetic site imo... I would NEVER recommend it (and at one time I did recommend it for newer players but that was quite awhile ago).
Yah.. whatever you do, DON'T sign up/deposit to Doyles. It sucks!!

got doyles a long time and used to play regulair, now joined cake network where i also play and only play the big bounty game at doyles now.

better get pokerstars or a merge account than joining doyles is my opinion.
even titan/william-hill or winner from ip-network are much better !
i prefer winner there and if use the link from here at winner you get a weekly $150 and a montly $500 depositors freeroll of cardschat !

so if looking for a second site my advice is
1-stars
2-winner
3-carbon

If you like soft MTT fields, including a lot of guaranteed tournaments offering overlay, Cake skins like Doyles are a good option for US players.

Cash games, both limit and no limit, are full of regs. SNGs take a while to fill up. HU SNGs are pretty soft and have a pretty good structure.

Traffic isn't great, but a couple of new skins on the network are working hard to build the player base back up. Rakeback is 33% across the board, paid weekly by the website directly into your account, and with no deductions when you're grinding bonuses.

If you're from the US, iPoker (Winner) isn't an option. Skins on Merge like Carbon Poker are open to US players, but the traffic is about the same as Doyles.

sorry for hijacking my own thread haha but is carbon poker open to us players? and whats that site like?

nuthing wrong with doyles, typical cake site, more private games than most othercake sites

I play both Cake and Doyles,I prefer Cake, I don't know if it's just me but there just seems to be alot of river card suckouts on Doyles,but over all there both about the same,overly aggressive donks just sit back and wait for some decent cards

Yeah, Carbon is open to US players. It's on the Merge Network.

They've got pretty cool software, which allows you to rabbit hunt, show one card when you win a pot without showdown, play the 27 game, play on run it twice tables, etc.

Lots of poker variations and a lot of guaranteed MTTs with overlays.

I think if you're familiar with playing on a site like Fulltilt (or Pokerstars) You'll be very disappointed with Doyles. (this is coming from a guy who used to play quite a bit on that site but now the $'s I have on there are collecting dust because honestly there's nothing on there I'd even want to waste screenspace to play it. You'll get some traffic in the big Sunday Tourney but that's about it.
Here's an example of one of their 'guarantees' -> a $100 MTT.... & it has a 'guar' prizepool of $1500. What a joke. I mean come on... that's a field the size of a frigg'n sng.

(I wish I knew how to multi-quote so I didn't have to 'multi-post' instead)

'nuthing wrong with doyles' <??? Perhaps for a player who is only interested in playing low buyin 'private' 'cash-added' MTTs, adding in Doyles might be okay (although they really don't have many in their lobby at all), but most players looking to sign up to second or third poker site are looking for a site that they can play on... not just to play 1 or 2 small-field, low buyin private tourneys.

Personally I think (know) there's ALOT wrong with Doyles. The Cake network has been so poorly managed & software so far behind the competition that it has many of the MTT regs. wondering if they're not just putting the site into the ground (yes... it is that bad).

OP, seriously, if you're looking for another site to play on.... look far, far away from Doyles (it sucks!!!!). Think about this... I used to actually recommend it to friends where I live for a decent site to get on for starting out (as a 2nd site as they all played on Fulltilt already). Now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone for anything. I can't understand why Doyles went ahead with the big sponsorship thing with the Doyles10 (10 excellent online players). Just seems weird that they went in that direction without even bothering to do anything to the site.
Traffic on that site is poor.
Tourney selection is worse than poor.
Software is archaic & just plain bad. (the last tourney I played on Doyles was a $50 Turbo MTT, the site was acting up like crazy with many players timing down & being unable to act (no bet button features would appear on screen). It happened over & over & over again. ALot of players got screwed because of it. A couple of players off the bubble I wake up with a monster, a loose spewy player opens in late position, I go to ship it in... but nothing.. instead it folds me??? Player to my left got folded a bunch of times & this was happening to a couple others on the table as well. I end up going out just off the bubble, getting it in good but with zero fold equity due to being folded out of other hands I wouldv'e shoved with. I contact support & they tell me they'll 'let me know' within 24hrs. (others on table were suggesting that we all write to support). 5day later they write back & give me ZERO! This is the last game I"ve played on that site. Fortunately I've been able to transfer off the majority of my roll (and at the time was willing to swap for funds on other sites giving up 20%...< yes.. it is that bad imo!)

I play there a little. The traffic is light and few tourneys have many players. As I write this, there are 2300 players total. A $11 NLH tourney that been playing had 138 players -- a lot for Doyle's. There are 93,000 players at FT. A $3.30 NLHE KO tourney that just started has 657 players. If you tend to do well in tournaments with fewer players, this is not a bad place to play.

I prefer limit ring games, which are dang hard to get going at the limits I prefer (i.e., rolled for.) The NLHE games are a bit soft at the lower levels.

They do have a Double-up SNG, like PS DONs, which are pretty easy. I sure wish FT had these.

On the whole, I'm finding it a bit hard to get all that involved in playing there. I signed up for rakeback, but, since I'm seldom there, it doesn't matter much.

The Cake network just launched a 2.0 version of their software, though I haven't bothered to upgrade it yet. Doyles Room is part of a network, so their promotion $s and the software development $s have nothing to do with each other.

Carbon has been improving their guaranteed tournaments quite a bit lately. It's been something they've been focussing on, well, other than signing Shannon Elizabeth as a sponsored pro.

$100 buy-in with $1,500 guaranteed. You're kidding right? Or you just haven't played there in a long time, so your money that is gathering dust is mostly uninformed about what's going on these days.

For players who have played almost exclusively on FT or PS, yeah, these second tier sites will seem pretty lame at first (no chance to win $1000s in a night from a deep run in a big guaranteed MTT, no huge tournament fields).

What I've found over my career playing poker is that I make more money on these smaller sites (FR Cash, 6max SNGs, HU SNGs, low buy-in rebuy MTTs) because there is less competition, smaller fields, and generally a higher percentage of fish and a lower percentage of multi-tabling grinders.

Maybe you should figure out what you're talking about before you let me know how 'uninformed' I am.
Cake/Doyles guar mtt's have been dropping off so much that some of them are so ridic low you'd wonder why they even bother having a guar. prizepool. I mean.. come on $1500 guar. for a $100+9 buyin

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I feel strongly enough about it that I'd hate to see a member here put a deposit on such a shtty site & be terribly disappointed.
Cake sucks plain & simple!

Here's a monster prizepool... $30 R & A with $5K guar. So what's that.. ~50players? (or less & there's overlay.. oh boy!)

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So sorry you feel that way p.o., as I like doyle`s room. I enjoy the soft tables. Yes the software does need improvment , but why knock it if you were making $ there.

Wow, sorry dude. I don't usually play at 1:30 PM, what is that EST? If so, I guess it's for the early evening Euro/UK crowd. I can't believe they would even bother guaranteeing that, but I guess they wouldn't get any runners otherwise. Sorry again for doubting you.

As for the 11:30 AM tourney on Cake, that's probably catering to their much smaller Asian market, and not to the US market.

I still stand by the fact that I've done incredibly well playing in the early to late evening guaranteed MTTs, focussed on the US market where the majority of their players are located. They usually get anywhere from 80-300 runners depending on the buy-in and the guarantees.

Why? Because it sucks. Do you need me to expand upon that more than I already have?
Why would I work at 7/11 if I had a law degree & an oppurtunity to work for a good firm?... get it?

The times listed were PST.. in other words Prime time for EST.

Just wondering.. if the site's so good.... why have the guarantees continued to drop off over the past year? Why have the SNG lobbys become almost empty? (by comparison to 2yrs. ago). Why have I read so many threads posted by online MTT regs. who wonder what in the ____ is Cake doing by not keeping up with the competition? (the rep. who used to respond to their threads was no longer even commenting).
I don't think it's just my opinion about Cake... pretty sure it's the others too who no longer play on there.

I have cake account and wish I could get the rest of my money off their stupid site. They actually have a $500 min. check withdraw. My eyes would bleed if I had to look at their software long enough to roll my $50 into $500.

I don't really agree that 4:30pm and 2:30pm are "Prime Time" for a site that focuses on the US market. Maybe if you're playing for a living, but not for recreational players who play for a couple of hours after work. I was playing at those times (HU SNGs, Guar MTTs, Full ring L2/4 and NL100/200) from about April to September and was happy with the volume.

The Cake Network has been hit by a couple of scandals, an encryption issue brought to light by PTR and a pot shipped to the wrong player due to a disconnect, which has caused a lot of the grinders to leave the site.

However, in the past 3 months, a new skin called Broadway Tables has been spending a lot of money to acquire players and Victory Poker moved from the Everleaf network to Cake, bringing a lot of players with them.

Both of these changes are starting to increase the number of players on the network and improve the fish to grinder ratio.

Actually, I heard about this increase just recently and agree it's ridiculous. I'm not from the US, so I can use eWallets to move money around, so it doesn't affect me. But if your only method of withdrawl is by check, it is disgusting.

I just logged in the other day and noticed they have just upgraded their software to Cake 2.0 (I play on the Cake skin, not Doyles). As I mentioned before in the thread, I haven't checked it out yet (I'm in China, so a lot of updates are incredibly slow because of the Great Firewall), but I'll take a look and get back to you.

if want your cash out of cake i can help
i got ewallet there and can exchange it to ftp/stars :P
pm me if interested