Lee Jones signs with Cake Poker

<img align="right" src=http://www.tlpoker.pl/user_pictures/13d6b49be5c44efb6e1a4d014c120c7e.jpg style="margin:5px; border: 1px solid black;">Respected poker icon Lee Jones has recently announced that he is signing with Cake Poker as their new Card Room Manager.

Lee is highly respected among the online community for his work at Poker Stars where he performed the same role. After stepping down from that position he became the COO over at CardRunners. After his departure from there the next chapter in Lee's life will be on Cake Poker.

He brings a wealth of knowledge to his new role and will be using this to try and grow Cake Poker into a card room that will shadow the likes of Poker Stars and Full Tilt.

Cake Poker is the flagship room on the Cake Poker Network that now consists of rooms the likes of Doyles Room, Players Only and Red Star Poker. One of the biggest problems reported by players of Cake is poor software. Lee Jones highlighted this as one of the things he will be deeply involved in entering his job.

In a recent interview Lee stated:

In short, we’re emphasizing poker as entertainment. That’s a very different model than Full Tilt, for example. They have a really strong brand message of playing against the pros. Our message is a different one and we think that’s good for us.

Time will tell if Lee can bring Cake Poker up in the ranks to challenge the larger networks. He has the experience and the respect of the online community behind him, so it looks like there are promising things ahead for Cake Poker and its players.

GL Lee!
this has potential to be amazing, something about Lee instantly makes me trust Cake a whole lot more.

afaik they still plan to keep stuff like weekly name changes, individual stats and all that good stuff that cake promotes at the moment.

heres hoping for visa cashouts ¬_¬

wtf is wrong with stars, why would they let him go

On May 16 2009 10:38 TalentedTom wrote: wtf is wrong with stars, why would they let him go

he quit like long time ago ?

cake is going to be awesome

He probably just wanted to do something different. More than likely once he made PS very good he kind of started getting bored of his job because there was less to do . If he makes Cake really really good that's going to be sweet for everyone.

cake poker players celebrate: God has arrived.

I have high hopes for this. I love the fact that his goal is to do it for the challenge, the challenge of designing the best poker site, not just to make money. A poker site designed for players BY a player and not some guy in a suit. I've been holding off signing up for cake until better RB deals resurface and the site develops into a stronger brand. Hopefully in 6-12 months it will be.

lol I for one like cake software

he wont be able to do anything about the software, unless he fires all the programmers and gets new ones

Lee Jones did a good job at stars but last i checked cakepoker software was absolutely horrible. Theres only so far we can go with the 'omg its lee jones' mentality. This is probably the line right here.

Lees background is in software.

On May 16 2009 10:33 byrnesam wrote: GL Lee! this has potential to be amazing, something about Lee instantly makes me trust Cake a whole lot more.

this

LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I might stay playing at cake now.

Also someone might take cake money now too, lol.

What they need to do is make Cake HHs processable by PT and HEM.

Though since they are all about poker as entertainment, it seems like that's unlikely to happen. Who knows though...

Its gonna be a piece of cake for Lee Jones to take a big piece of the cake at cake

On May 16 2009 11:41 Bejamin1 wrote: He probably just wanted to do something different. More than likely once he made PS very good he kind of started getting bored of his job because there was less to do . If he makes Cake really really good that's going to be sweet for everyone.

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