$1K Tax Day Freeroll

Yuck. Tuesday is Tax Day in America.  To ease the pain of paying income tax Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes Casino  are holding a $1K Tax Day Freeroll!

“Paying taxes is never fun so this year we decided to give everyone something to take their mind off it,” said Intertops Poker’s manager.  “Instead of being grumpy the day you pay your taxes you can look forward to a mega freeroll. Pay nothing to enter, maybe win $1000!”

$1K Tax Day Freeroll
Tuesday, April 17th
9:10 pm EDT (Wednesday 3:10 am CEST, 11:10 am AEST)
Four-part password required to register.

Not just anyone can join this tournament.  You'll need a four-part access code to register for the event. Parts of this code will be sent out via the poker rooms' newsletters. Other parts will be published on their social media pages.

If you're not currently getting their newsletters contact Customer Support to be added to the email list.  Also follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (Intertops Poker: Facebook, Twitter, . Juicy Stakes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.)

Win Your Way to the WSOP!

Win your way to the Millionaire Maker tournament at the WSOP this summer in online satellite tournaments that begain at Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes Casino this week! This year the annual Millionaire Maker tournament, with its guaranteed $1,000,000 first rize,  will be held June 9th – 13th.

Satellites, with buy-in starting at just $3, will be held four times a day April 4th – 14th. Win the Final on April 15th and you'll receive a US$4500 prize package that includes the $1500 Millionaire Maker Tournament buy-in, premium accommodation near the Rio in Las Vegas and US$500 to help with travel expenses.

The champion in this round of Vegas Milli Maker Satellites will join the winners of two previous satellite tournament series.

“We will have a group of our players together in Vegas this summer, and we will also have a host on-site to look after them a bit,” says Intertops’ poker room manager. “Whenever we take players to a big live tournament they always appreciate the camaraderie!”

You can enter Vegas Milli Maker Satellite Tournaments at any stage or try to win your way to the Final.

Vegas Milli Maker Satellite Tournament Schedule

Step 1 ($3+$0.30)
1 Step 2 ticket awarded
4x daily until April 14th: 4:30pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm, 10:30pm EST (10:30pm, 00:30am, 02:30am, 04:30am CET)

Step 2 ($9+$0.90)
1 ticket to Final awarded
Daily starting April 5th: 7:30pm EST (1:30am CET)

Last Chance Wild West Satellite ($1+$0.10)
1 ticket to Final awarded
Sunday, April 15th
4:30pm EST (10:30pm CET)

Final ($100+$10)
$4,500 prize package awarded
Sunday, April 15th
7:30pm EST (01:30am CET)

Milli Maker satellite tournaments at Intertops Poker.
Milli Maker satellite tournaments at Juicy Stakes Casino.

Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes Casino rule the busy Horizon Poker Network which attracts all kinds of players from all over the world.  They also have slots and other casino games from Betsoft, World Match and Lucktap.

Sonesta Maho is Helping Resort Employees Following Hurrican Irma

The Sonesta Maho Resort, which normally hosts the TK Poker Tour events in St Maarten, is doing its best to help its employees in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.  We received this message from them today, letting us know what we can do to help:

"Our beloved island has been devastated and, although we will rebuild in the future, our primary focus now is on relief efforts providing the basic living essentials like clean drinking water, food, clothes and cleaning supplies. There is much to do and compassion must be paramount.

As you know, our Sonesta St. Maarten team and staff and the people of Sint Maarten are the soul of our hotels and our destination. It is the people that make the experience exceptional – they are the ones that make St. Maarten “The Friendly Island" and they cannot be forgotten in their time of need. So now, please help us help them.

We are working directly with the relief organization Samaritan’s Purse that has been instrumental as the first responders to the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, and they are currently stationed at Sonesta Maho Beach Resort supplying humanitarian relief efforts to the island.

We have also set up an official fundraising page for the employees and staff of Sonesta Resorts Sint Maarten and The Maho Group. This fund will collect money to provide new clothing, supplies and household items; it will also help support aid to the employees and staff and offset medical and travel expenses.

We kindly ask for your support and donations today as timing is critical. We assure you that your donation is legitimate and legal, and that it will be closely monitored.

Donate through our dedicated Sonesta St. Maarten GoFundMe page providing direct relief to our cherished resort staff at: www.gofundme.com/sonestasxmstaff.

Or visit the Samaritan’s Purse website to donate to general St. Maarten island relief efforts at: www.samaritanspurse.org.

We cannot let Irma’s victims in the Caribbean be forgotten. The real work is just beginning."

The People of St Maarten Need Our Help

The St Maarten resorts we know and love are in shambles following Hurricane Irma.

Last week one of our favorite poker destinations was flattened by Hurricane Irma. The category 5+ storm tore into several islands in the Caribbean with 185 mile per hour winds, ripping roofs off buildings, flattening homes and filling streets with trees and debris. The Sonesta Maho Resort which was to host the WSOPC St Maarten in November has had to close.  The badly damaged hotel has had to cancel all reservations.  The casino across the street was also badly damaged and is closed.  So the WSOPC has been officially cancelled.

Sad news for us -- but even sadder for the locals.  Not only is their island and home destroyed but now the resort they worked in is closed.  Tough times  :(

The island has started the long process of re-building after the storm, but they need help. Water, food and medicine and rebuilding infrastructure all cost money. We're told that the best thing we can do to help St Maarten is to send financial aid.

The Netherlands has been offering a lot of aid on the island and the Dutch Red Cross has opened a special account to raise funds for further aid.  If you can handle the Dutch website you can donate here.

Globalgiving.org’s Hurricane Irma Relief Fund accepts online donations and their website is in English.

Severe Hurricane Irma Damage in St Maarten Forces Cancellation of WSOPC

Wow. It's worse than we thought -- and we knew it was going to be pretty bad. Hurricane Irma hit the West Indies this week and there has been catastrophic damage to some of our favourite Caribbean islands.  All of the resorts in Punta Cana, and St Maarten that we've been to for poker tournaments have sustained heavy damage.

St Maarten was hit so hard that the organizers of the WSOPC tournament that we planned to attend in November have no choice but to cancel the event.  No one knows when the airport will re-open and the host hotel is cancelling all reservations for the remainder of 2017.

HURRICANE IRMA: Devastation in St Martin #Caribbean #HurricaneIrma https://t.co/onFPE52a0X pic.twitter.com/1sd89vurgZ

— WIC News (@WIC_News) September 6, 2017

"Because of the circumstances the WSOPC Caribbean Poker Festival, November 1-15, 2017, is officially cancelled. All prepaid reservations will be refunded," read a statement from the organizers, TK Poker.

Official Statement of Sonesta Maho Resort & Casino where the WSOPC was to have taken place:

"All guests and staff of Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Royal Casino are safe and unharmed.

The damages to Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Royal Casino are severe, as is widespread damage and destruction on our beloved island of Sint Maarten. Severe damage has also occurred at Princess Juliana International Airport, and we do not have news as to when the airport will resume operations.

The Sonesta St. Maarten executive team and management are doing their best to assist guests who are at the resorts to remain safe, secure, and as comfortable as possible until they are able to depart Sint Maarten—this is our primary concern. Guests are currently in on-property safe areas at the resorts.

Due to the damages the resorts suffered, all further reservations from now through the end of 2017 will be cancelled."

Our thoughts are with the wonderful people of St Maarten and the Dominican Republic. We'll let you know when we hear of ways we can help them through this.

We'll also be thinking about our friends in Florida where Irma is headed this weekend.

Intertops Players Reflect on Poker EM 2017

Derek Nakafuji from Los Angeles managed to take down one of the Poker EM Velden packages online at Intertops. He could bring a friend, which was included in the package on Intertops. When two friends, Gary and Paul, said they wanted to make it an extended European vacation -- including Velden, Munich, Paris, Lille and Vienna -- Derek brought both of them along. Derek played the Poker EM Main Event and unfortunately was knocked out late on day 2, but it seems the three friends made the most of their Velden visit!



Hjalmar Lethin talks about the satisfaction of yet another sucessful live event with online qualifiers from Intertops. Hjalmar talks about what the players were up to outside the poker room, the greatness of Velden and of course Casino Velden with their great staff lead by poker managers Gerald Golker, Dieter Printschler and Niklas Sattler. He also talks about the things to come for online qualifiers in the future including available packages for St Maarten with sub satellites starting already on August 2.

Simon Boss Wins Poker EM European Poker Championship

Simon Boss from Switzerland really loves the Poker EM in Velden. Two years ago he managed to win the main event and this year he became the first player to ever win this event for the second time. Simon is a successful entrepreneur in his home country with a company with 120 employees and he has poker as his favourite hobby. The win, which was made possible thanks to Simon’s ‘Velden Final Table Shirt’, was worth €142,000. Simon talks some about the decisive hands of the tournament, the online poker ban in Switzerland, his plans in poker for the coming months and that he will for sure come back next year to Velden to defend his title.