Doyles Room Moves To Cake Poker Network

Thursday January 22, 2009

After battling to restart action for poker players in the United States over much of 2008, the Doyles Room endorsed by ten-time WSOP bracelet winner and two-time World Champion Doyle Brunson, has left the Microgaming Prima Network and reemerged on the online scene as a part of the Cake Gaming Network.

As reported earlier on Poker News and through emails, discussions with insiders in the affiliate world and customer support at Doyles Room, Poker News has been able to learn that, effective today, new poker players who sign up for Doyles Room will be playing on the Cake Network. Older versions of the Doyles Room software still operate on the Microgaming network, but this is due to change over the coming week.

In discussions with the customer support division at Doyles Room, it is critical that poker players do not load up both versions of Doyles Room. To be able to play on the proper network, existing players will have to uninstall the old Doyles Room software and load up the new network's software from the site. For those poker players that are already on the Cake Network, Doyles Room support states that once a player has uninstalled the older version and loaded the new one, you should be able to use your Cake network information to access the tables through Doyles Room.

The changeover for Doyles Room is simply the latest chapter in what has been a problematic journey for the site. Originally on the Tribeca Network and then on the Playtech platform, Doyles Room was one of the sites that was affected by the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006. The poker site eliminated access to American players in early 2007, transferring those players at that time to Full Tilt Poker and continuing on in the online world with non-American traffic.

Late in 2007, Doyles Room moved over to the Microgaming network and, although Microgaming would allow for US action, the online poker site did not immediately reaccept American players. In 2008, Doyles Room once again opened up for Americans to take part in the game, but another judicial decision fell against Doyles Room when Kentucky made a grab for the domain names of 141 online gaming and poker outlets. As one of those affected by the action in Kentucky, Microgaming pulled their action out of thirteen states and once again forced Doyles Room into the pursuit of another network.

For those that go to the Doyles Room site on the internet, there won't appear to be any changes. Only at the bottom of the poker site does Doyles Room state that it is now a part of the Cake Network and promotions that are listed are in line with those that are also present on Cake Poker. At press time, action on the still running Microgaming version of Doyles Room show around 8000 players at the tables. On the Cake site, approximately 4000 players were on the virtual felt.