Velden 2018 With Intertops Poker: What To Expect!

It’s almost that time of year again and I don’t mean the World Cup of Football. Instead it’s Velden in Austria which will take centre stage in Europe next month when Intertops Poker return to the ‘Monte Carlo of the Austrian Alps’ for the annual European Poker Championship festival, from July 18th to 29th.

PokerTube will be bringing you the best of the live action, and you can expect the Intertops Poker Team to be in the thick of the action once again! Three online qualifiers will be enjoying an Austrian summer poker extravaganza in the mountains, the beautiful lakeside Casino Velden hosting hundreds of hopefuls for the 12-day festival.

The Intertops Poker Team Pro Tim O’Keefe, who in a few days will take two lucky Intertops Poker online satellite qualifiers to Vegas for the WSOP’s Milli Maker, gives his view on Velden, Vegas and Intertops in an interesting chat with Rikard Aberg…

In Velden Six European Poker Championship titles will be up for grabs, with eleven excellent side-events and a ‘Cash Game Championship’ to keep everyone happy – with Rikard Aberg on hand to interview the hopefuls and, of course, the winners.

The Main Event

The €2,700 buy-in Main Event gets underway on 26th July, the festival itself kicking off on the 18th July and ending on the 29th July - a fitting finale to what has proved to be an extremely enjoyable stop for the Intertops men and women, the more so when they’ve won a package to the seasonal biggie.

Last year saw a field of 236 players battling it out for the big money, Switzerland’s Simon Boss walking off through the Alps with €120,000 from the €590,000 prizefund – Boss having performed the same feat two years previously! Twenty-six others ended up in the money, a minimum cash of €6,500 making it a very fruitful trip to Velden.

The Intertops Package

As with previous satellite winners through Intertops, the qualifiers for Velden will be well taken care of, the Intertops team putting together a fantastic package for last month’s lucky winners…

The Intertops Velden package is worth $6,500 and includes:

• €2,700 buy-in to the Main Event (July 26th to 29th)
• 5-night stay for two at a premium hotel close to the Casino Velden
• $500 to help with travel expenses
• Welcome Dinner with the Intertops crew

If you need any more convincing, have a watch and listen to Casino Velden’s poker manager Gerald Golker, chatting with Rikard Aberg about last year’s Poker EM, why Velden is such a good destination for players and how he managed, with some help from Leon Tsoukernik, to get 41 buy-ins into the €25,000 Highroller.