Cake is terrible imo.
I play on Doyles and must say that in the past while their guarantees for tournaments have dropped off significantly.
There are just a TON of problems with the software there... it is wayyyyy behind sites like Fulltlit &
pokerstars.
Here's an example of my last experience on Doyles/Cake (this is enough that I wouldn't bother to consider playing on there). Doyles had just done an update prior to my entering a $55 turbo MTT. During that game I'd estimate over 1/3 of the players were having a hell of a time with the site (when it came to your turn to act, there'd be no bet/fold/call buttons and you'd just time down & fold). It happened to me only a few times but at very crucial points of the tourney (ie. top 10paid, I was sitting in 7th of 21.. then wake up with big hand in SB, a LP stealer raises in CO.. & I fold ???... arghh... then.. again!!!.. and then a big hand I"d be insta-shoving with.. & same thing.
I was not alone (like I mentioned and was happening to some of the others more often than to me). Guy to my left also had a good stack & same thing happening to him... then he finally gets to shove his stack in & takes a badbeat, leaving him crippled. He was livid (looked him up & discovered he has over $500K in winnnings so it wasn't like it was his entire
bankroll that he was just crying about... ahem.. like me, lol).
I wrote to support, telling them I wanted to be re-imbursed for the buyin at least and they said they'd get back to me with a decision within 24hrs. (that was 72hrs. ago). {a bunch of the other players in the tourney said they'd be writing in to support as well.. one had been on hold with the 'live chat' for 25mins...??).
There's alot of other screwups on that site these days (won't go into details.. just hoping this is enough of a warning for you here). Some threads I've read about the site (where the rep. comes on & comments... although I haven't seen him on there lately.. Lee Jones), have a list of stuff/concerns. Some of them seem to have the feeling they're running the site into the ground because of all the stuff that isn't being tended to/fixed.
I'd never pick it as an alternative site to play on. I admit I did play a handful of MTTs on there recently (cashing in an oddly large percentage of them) but really have no expectations of playing there again after the other night's experience (my confidence in the site is in the crapper).
last point... I don't know what games you play in... but as far as nlhe Tournaments go there's hardly even anything to play in on that site. (there's a few $6 bounty/KO tourneys, a few $30 buyins, a couple of $50's with hardly anybody in them, even fewer big buyin tourneys with almost nobody at all in them (ie. they have a ~$162 buyin and the guar. is only $1500?.. that's a freak'n sng ffs).
They've got a couple of larger field guar. big buyins on the weekends and the Wed. nite Doyles Bounty ($27.50).. other than that I've seen no $10 mtts (aside from a couple of $10rebuy).. and no $5 mtt, and not even sure of any cheap micro ones (oh yah.. there's a $3 $750guar. that runs once per day.. and a $2 $400 guar.).