Intertops Poker

SITE:

Intertops Poker is a skin for Party Poker and is run by Intertops which is one of the biggest Sportsbooks around. They share all the same games against the same players except for the multi-table tournaments. There are 40,000 player online at it's peak time. The games have a reputation for being loose but they can vary from loose to medium. HOW TO OPEN AN INTERTOPS ACCOUNT IF YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE AT PARTY POKER: Empire Poker, Intertops Poker, and Party Poker track new accounts by IP address, so if you've been actively playing at Party Poker from a specific IP address within the last 30 days, Intertops Poker will not allow you to establish your LOGIN NAME and PASSWORD from that IP. So to overcome this problem: Download the software, install, and open an account on a different computer. Then go back to your normal computer and log on.

BONUS:

Right now they are offering a $20 free bet bonus for it's sportsbook and a 20% bonus up to $100 for it's pokerroom - use the bonus code "EARN20". You can easily check the status of your bonus by going to the cashier.

TOURNAMENTS:

Intertops has good sit N go's. The competition is very loose at the low-limit ones ($5). For people who don't like to play against bad players they might want to switch up to the $20 sit N go's. Their multi-table tournaments have buy-ins that range from $9-$30. Intertops has nice low buy-in multi-table tournaments. On the weekends they have $1 buy-in tournaments with 50 people and $400 added to the prize pool. During the week they have $5 buy-ins with $100 added. Intertops has a problem with all-in abuse. Sometimes the players disconnect from the site when they are in a big hand and don't want to call a big bet in a no-limit tournament and are put all-in and end up beating someone when they normally wouldn't have called the huge bet. The customer service at Empire currently knows about the problem and is contemplating making changes.

PROMOTIONS:

They have a refer-a-friend bonus where you earn $50 and your friend earns $25. They need to use the bonus code "FRIENDS-TAF15".

SOFTWARE:

Their software is nice. You can play 3 tables at once and take notes on other players. The do have player stats but they are limited. The software has a buddy list where you can see if your friends are logged on but you can't locate where they are. There is also a search page where you can filter for games using a certain criteria (example: find all $1/$2 games where the avg. pot is greater than $18). You can also transfer money to other players but it needs to be a minimum of $50. Also, when you cash out you need to cashout to the sportsbook account first and then to Neteller. To do this log onto your Intertops Poker Cashier screen and cashout out to "Intertops Account" then log onto your Intertops account through www.intertops.com and then go to "Payouts" and cash out to Neteller. Any poker site that has a sportsbook (WSEX, Intertops, and Popular Poker) you usually have to do this so don't worry that they are trying to steal your money.

They also have hotkeys to you can play with your keyboard:
F5 = fold
F6 = check
F7 = call
F8 = raise

COMMENTS:

PaulsGTO
April 12, 2005
Hi Guys Paul Again,As a gambler we all no doubt recognize and accept the "laws of average" factor.It cannot and will not be denied. I play Blackjack at a local casino. I usually play at the $25 minimumtable for hours at a time. I have seen dealers go on fantastic streaks of luck as well as players. Suddenly a reversal of fortunes surfaces and it goes vice versa. The same trends occur when I play in the casino's poker room, I can go an hour, sometimes more without getting involved in a hand, no viable pockets to even play loose with. While online I experience the same trends. I go bad and then suddenly I get a rush of winning pockets. As for the droughts occurring after money withdrawals from online poker rooms, it's just a coincidence. I would love to blame my droughts on rigged software. The other night there were over 80,000 players online at one time. Now just how in the world do you figure they singled you out? Out of the entire population of "players currently online" do you suppose any software can do that?!!!They can deliver weak pockets which I refer to as a "lags" because they delay your game as any good poker player will bide his time and wait, wait, wait and wait some more if need be for a viable hand.The community board may be a tad juiced as well, but then again it is going to lose for you and win for you in turn, as the "laws of average" kicks in again! Same thing at a Blackjack table when a player does the opposite move with his/her hand as he should and then the dealer instead of making a solid hand, BUSTS! Nobody wants to kick the lame player unless the dealer makes a 21. Same thing in online poker rooms. You seem to remember the "bad beats" more predominantly than the hands you committed the bad beat on yourself. Human nature, we are basically negative creatures. Some more than others, thus the constant complaining and finger pointing. A decent comparison for the online community boards would be looking back to when you were learning poker as a kid, remember when deuces were wild? That creates excitement and more possibilities for everyone's hand involved. Again, it works for you and against you within the guidelines of the "laws of average". It's how you play the winning hands that differs the winners from losers.Maximize your wins and minimize your losses. It's just that simple. Rigging? Yes. But not individual conspiracies! Well guys/gals that's the way I see it.

PokerFoos
January 20, 2005
I must amend my original review: They do have daily freerolls...can be pretty decent. One problem is can't run Jet Set and Intertops at the same time. Also this site has the stupid button logic.

Unregistered
December 29, 2004
Very convenient having poker and a sportsbook in a single account - It is a partypoker skin, so there is always a lot of action.

JLWALLNUTS
October 25, 2004
GET THIS, THEY WONT ALLOW YOU TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT BASED ON AN ADRESS IN nEW jERSEY! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

badparty
September 14, 2004
Read comment about partypoker.com. It's only a skin change. Lots of cheating.

Poker Dude
August 18, 2004
Very convenient having poker and a sportsbook in a single account - It is a partypoker skin, so there is always a lot of action.

Purple Reign
July 18, 2004
I was not able to cash-out via Neteller. They had to wire transfer funds to my bank account which took almost a week. I understand you may be able to transfer the poker money to the sportsbook/casino account and then to Neteller, but support did not advise this in any of the three calls I made about my cashout issue.

kk.
July 7, 2004
decent games, huge traffic, good multi tables with money added, occasional reloads

lovetopolka
June 12, 2004
they do have freerolls

PokerFoos
Intertops May 27, 2004
Only difference between this and Party Poker is the multitable tourneys can be different. Also, it may be convenient for you if you have an intertops.com sportsbook account. No freerolls at all. They used to add a significant amount of money to some of the multi's, now there is hardly any incentive to play.