Trying out Intertops.

Just signed up. Played Bodog a little and Cake but still having depositing issues, i'll stick to their FR's. Anyone else play here? Any tips?

yeah Ive got some money there, which I won from taking down a CC freeroll 2 weeks ago, which Im in the process of taking out. The software is terrible, no HUDs work there, variety of mtts etc is shocking, and traffic is low. Luckilly Im from the UK, so have lots of choices, and am not limited. Out of the 30 or so sites Ive played at, this ranks maybe 29th, or even 30th.

WoW Okay. Maybe it's time to uninstall and stick to Cake for now. I really am having such an issue finding somewhere decent to play.(Damn US) I'll just move to the UK. LOL

lol it is same like cake only you withdraw money faster from inter i think

Yeah, I actually like Cake's layout better. lol back too the hunt for a better place to play. Im sure one day i'll find somewhere.

can US players play on the ipoker network ?
i haven't deposited for about 2 years but
i know deposits and withdrawals are quick
and easy with a debit card.
3 weeks ago i withdrew $200 from cd poker,
which is an ipoker skin.
the money was in my account 5 days later.
not sure if US can play there tho'.
good luck

Not sure, I'll look into it. Is that the best skin?

Yah of the two go with Intertops for sure!!! I've read a ton of problems players are having with withdraw on Cake but many others saying that withdraw on Intertops is pretty quick. Seems like a no-brainer between the two.

Ahh yeah that's right, you were telling me. Lol Man Poker stars needs to come back to the US lol.

must just add, I put in a neteller withdraw with intertops, my first one since depositing. they asked for 3 forms of ID which I sent. 3 hours later they approved my ID, 24 hours later I got my money.

This is like World War 3 -_-

Cake is minimum withdrawals of $500, Intertops lets you do minimum withdrawals of $150.

Intertops layout is the same exact layout as Cake. That's the whole point of it being a skin.

The best part about Intertops is they have games that are exclusive to their skin... meaning you won't find them on Cake or any other Cake skin. The traffic for these games are extremely low, which gives them extreme value. They also have Intertops-only promotions which aren't really valuable, but they're at least something.

I hope the CC games will also continue in some form.

having read my first reply, it sounds like I hate Intertops. I don't, but because Im luckilly from the UK Ive got a great choice of sites to play at, so this wouldne be my first choice by a long way.
But for an American, who's limited, I guess it's not a bad site to play on.

+1

The only difference is the color scheme. Intertops is much better than Cake for a variety of reasons, but most importantly they process their own Cashouts. I would disagree with the comment that Intertops doesn't offer much value. If your getting Rakeback(hopefully you are????), deposit/reload bonus, Gold Cards/Chips, plus the Intertops specific promotions there is actually a decent amount of value when you add it up. I would also point out that Intertops/Cake Network uses the Dealt method of Rakeback calculation which is much more valuable for Full Ring Games and for TAG players.

Unfortunately, you arent' going to find much better places to play then Intertops if you are a US resident. You could muti Network to help find the best games available that you play and to help with your volume. This is what I do and it's about the best option currently for US players.

I meant their specific promotions don't have much value... such as their "endurance challenges"... usually getting only a few % of the rake you're paying back, if you end up qualifying at all. The freerolls are great, but you can never really count that because of the fickle nature of cashing in any tournament (having said that, I did cash in one of the September endurance challenge freerolls). When you add it up, like I said, it's better than nothing, but not worth chasing after. They have lackluster support when it comes to their promotions, so it's often hard just to find out enough information to properly pursue any extra Intertops-specific bonuses.

I am getting some form of rakeback, but traditional rakeback wasn't available to me when I opened my account. I could do much better rakeback-wise by playing other sites. I do know the games are quite soft and great for TAG players with rakeback, but I'm generally a tournament player... and I do love Intertops for their exclusive guarantee tournaments which almost always have overlay. I should probably go after a deposit/reload bonus at some point, but I've actually never had to deposit on any online poker site.

I just signed up on Intertops. I read a lot of good things on other forums about them. Like they've been around forever. (at least the sports betting) I like a place with that and Casinos where they make a ton of $. It would make it easier to pay the poker players I think. Withdrawals are supposedly much quicker here than other Cake network sites, b/c they use their own cashier. I will put a couple hundred on when I get paid (day job), and see how it goes.

I do agree, without the standard RB (33% calculated using the dealt method) the promotions wouldn't be near as good.

That's where your value has gone. Unfortunately you have to be very careful when signing up to Intertops or you won't receive the standard RB. However, if you do sign up at the appropriate place and get the standard 33% RB, which I have, then they actually do have a lot of value on top of the RB.

You keep saying that I'm saying Intertops has no value... and that's completely NOT what I'm saying. I've personally done really well on Intertops regardless of how little rakeback I get. Even without rakeback, their value is extremely high from the soft play and relatively-easy withdrawals.

I have issue with Intertops promotions... they're mostly a joke and rarely return more than 5% of the rake you put into them. Their customer service is also very poor, which compounds the problem with their promotions (some of which is Cake's fault... some Intertops' fault).

With Merge opening up to US players as early as tonight, I'm really hoping US players end up getting some better competition for our business in easier deposits and withdrawals and better promotions.

I think your miss understanding what I'm saying. Below is what I said:

Basically, I'm agreeing that the promotions aren't as good if you don't have, or don't factor in, Rakeback.

With Rakeback and the promotions, they add up to a good amount of money back. Below are some of the figures on these that I did quickly:


Based on the figures below you would earn:
RB=33%
Deposit Bonus=18%-27% depending on the game type.
Oktoberfest=9%

Just those 3 give you 60-69% while clearing a bonus, depending on what you play. On top of that you would also earn: Gold Cards(for Ring Games), Gold Chips, and Gold Stacks. The Gold Chips/Stacks don't have a lot of value when you first start off, but they add a little and as you get to higher levels, they add even more. Also, if your a high volume player, you should earn a little in the FPP Races that they run weekly.

Based off that, you should be able to get 70%-80%+ with Rakeback. I think that's pretty significant if you have Rakeback.

The support isn't the greatest, but they do have a Poker Room rep on 2p2 that will take care of most issues you have if you send him an email.

Hmm I might have to look into intertops...and what Rakeback affiliate do you guys use...I've always had Rakebrain.

Ya'll, I'm really starting to like Intertops. I'm in the USA. I had trouble getting my card to go through, so I called the number they emailed me for customer assistance depositing. They took care of me and had my money on the site in under 5 minutes. Wish there was more traffic, but many of the MTTs have a few hundred players and I think it's a good option for us until things get better.

Unfortunately, the "wish there were more traffic" can be said about all US Sites right now.

Intertops is definitely worth a look.

Couple things I don't like about Intertops (but mostly cuz I'm too lazy to go thru the verification process) vs. Cake, is the goofy $20 freeze on your account (only allowed to play up to $20/day). I tried to enter a tourney that cost $20+2 but it wouldn't let me. I read in another thread on here about pros & cons of the $20max/day thing.. but imo I see no 'pros' to this at all. My understanding of it too was > you were only able to lose up to $20/day but this is incorrect.... today I played my first 'regular' mtt on the site (dick'n around while working on puter, figured why not run a micro on somewhere unusual for the hell of it...saw a $3 mtt had just started so I signed up for it). Took 3rd of 72entrants for the big $28, then figured I'd be able to reg. for the $30 bounty tonight (at same time as other games I'm playing later on) but was sadly mistaken > I can still only play stuff up to a $20max. This is kinda odd imo, especially for SNG/MTT players. I mean in SNG's you might be a great player but easily lose 6-10 games in-a-row... so on Cake, even if you took down the first 5 sng's, placing in 1st in all of them, you can still only lose a max. of $20. Seems dumb.

The plus for Intertops for US players is obviously the withdrawl thing (posted above) but for me Cake is still better because on Cake I'm able to make player-to-player transfers & am not able to do this on Intertops.

I just read in another thread that there are plans for more CC stuff on Intertops. That'd be cool (as long as they don't cost over $20 )

Tops has been OK for me so far, no complaints... yes u have to verify ID but then again, that is the way things will be everywhere soon
I think their hardass ID stuff (Betfair also) protects them from DOJ also...

That is odd that you had a $20 max loss. Mine was $200 per day, but I got it raised to $500 by going to the live chat in the cashier section and asking them about it. They just had me verify my account. (email address, DOB, home address, phone number) and then updated it immediately.

Idk if it was maybe your deposit method or something that made it $20 but that seems kind of ridiculous. I've never made a deposit and mine was originally $200. Weird, it should be easy to get it raised though. Good luck.

MTT's on there have REALLY SOFT fields!! There's a $10-$1,000guar. twice a day on there where you start with 5,000chips & gets between 80-150 players (depending upon day). Honestly am amazed at how much weaker the players are on there (in general) compared with say PokerStars.

$20 is pretty standard.... if you read on some other threads on CC you'll see that a bunch of others had the same amount set on their accounts. Still too lazy to verify my acc't. on there.... I only add in one game (MTT) from there into the schedule (or I just play on CAKE instead). I should really get my sh_t together though (maybe tomorrow?)