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$3,000 WSOP seat to be won

As part of their ‘Road to Vegas’ promotion, PKR have put together a package worth $3,000 and are giving it away for nothing in a freeroll tournament.

The package will include $1,500 in spending money and a seat in a shootout tournament to be held in Vegas next year.

The seat will be given away on Sunday 23rd November at 19.00 GMT and to be involved in it, you will need to finish in the Final Phase of any 10 player Sit & Go Phase tourney held between 10th November and 16th November.

You will then receive confirmation of your seat in the FreeRoll by 19th November.

To get involved with this, existing players should simply click on the SnG  tab in the PKR lobby. Those of you who aren’t members of PKR yet will need to download the free software from www.pkr.com.

To enter the WSOP qualifiers, click here»

Oktoberfest comes to PKR

Munich’s Oktoberfest may now be over, but the good news is that PKR‘s Oktoberfest is just about to start!

PKR are running a serious of guaranteed tournaments over the course of the next ten days, to give away $270,000. These tournaments will inlcude a number of different poker flavours (including Omaha) and will be run across various tournaments formats such as Pot Limit, Terminator tournaments and bounty games. There will even be a free roll giving away an impressive $5,000 that players will gain entry to just by finishing in the top 50 in any of the other Oktoberfest events.

And if that wasn’t enough, if you get far enough into the field, you may find yourself appearing on TV in front of 15 million people across Europe as PKR are broadcasting several events on their own TV channel.

Most events have their own satellites meaning that players can get involved for a fraction of the regular buy-in price.

Existing members of PKR will simply need to look out for these tournaments in the lobby. Players currently not with PKR will need to visit http://www.pkr.com and register their details there.

The event will start tonight at 19.00 GMT with a Guarnateed No Limit Hold’em event.

The Oktoberfest tournament schedule is as follows:

Monday, 20 October: 19:00 GMT
$10,000 guaranteed Deep and Steep no limit hold ‘em.
Buy-in $25.

Satellites: 01:15 & 15:30 GMT

Tuesday, 21 October: 19:00 GMT
$10,000 guaranteed pot limit Omaha.
Buy-in $40.

Satellites: 01:15 & 15:30 GMT

Wednesday, 22 October: 19:00 GMT (TV)
Ongoing sit & go qualifiers
$17,500 guaranteed no limit hold ‘em with six $200 Bounties –  Take down any PKR bounty player win an instant $200!
The final table of this tournament will feature on PKR TV.

Satellites: 01:15 & 15:30 GMT

Thursday, 23 October: 19:00 GMT
$7.5K guaranteed limit hold ‘em.
Buy-in $25

Satellites: 01:15 & 15:30

Friday, 24 October: 19:00 GMT
$15,000 guaranteed Terminator.
Buy-in $40

Satellites: 01:15 & 15:30 GMT

Saturday, 25 October: 19:00 GMT (TV)
$100,000 guaranteed Masters.
Buy-in $250.

Satellites: Regular scheduled satellites running daily. Current members should check their Tournament Schedule

Sunday, 26 October: 20:00 GMT
$25,000 guaranteed no limit hold ‘em, six seater.
Buy-in $50

Satellites: Running daily from 20th October. Current members should check their tournament schedule

Thursday, 30 October: 20:00 GMT
$5,000 Exclusive Freeroll!
Entry is gained by finishing in the top 50 of any other Oktoberfest events

Sunday, 02 November: 15:00 GMT (TV)
$5,000 Tournament of Champions!

A field of just 20 players will compete for another $5K freeroll. The twenty players will consist of the ten Oktoberfest event winners plus the ten highest leaderboard finishers. The final table of this tournament will feature on PKR TV.

To get involved with PKR Oktoberfest, click here»

PKR Reload bonus

PKR have announced another Reload bonus for their players. They’re giving away an impressive 100% bonus up to to $200 to all players who already have an account with them. Just make sure you use the code AUTUMN100 when depositing. You have until 7th October 2008 to claim.

For those of you who don’t already have an account with PKR, don’t feel left out. PKR have got a load of bonuses for you too. Just check out our bonus code section to find out how to get up to $2,000 totally free and join in the fun.

Tell a friend, head to Vegas

Over the next 33 weeks, PKR will be running a series of promotions that will give away a number of WSOP 2009 packages.

This week’s promotion is aimed at those people who are already playing the poker at PKR. The challenge is to refer as many of your friends to PKR as possible. The 50 members who refer the most friends to PKR will compete in a freeroll tournament with the winner walking away with a $3,000 WSOP package including a seat in the $1,500 No Limit Freezeout Event to be held in 2009.

If you’re going to be referring friends, be sure to give them one of our bonus codes so that they can maximise their bankroll and get the most out of PKR!

Freerolls of just 20 players

If you’ve been waiting for an extra special reason to sign up to PKR (as if the game play and the bonuses weren’t enough!), then it may well finally have arrived.

Despite the fact that we’re still waiting for the final table at this year’s World Series to be played, PKR aren’t hanging around. In fact, they’re already looking towards the WSOP 2009.

The ‘Road to Vegas’ promotion kicks off this week with a number of freerolls consisting of just 20 players. Why so little competition? Because this is only open to those players who are making their first deposit at PKR. If you’ve been wondering how to win freeroll tournaments, then I’d suggest this is your best shot. When you consider that an average freeroll can contain many hundreds of players, this is a fantastic opportunity to give yourself a shot at picking up a nice prize for absolutely nothing.

To qualify for these tournaments, you simply need to visit www.pkr.com and make the minimum deposit of $25. If you’re thinking of depositing more than that, then check out our PKR Bonus page as a deposit of at least $50 can get you a load of extra cash to add to your bankroll at the same time as putting you on the road to Vegas.

Click here to register for the PKR FreeRoll tournaments

Olympic fever on the PKR forum

It seems that everyone wants to get in a piece of the Olympic spirit at the moment, and PKR are no different.

However, their approach is a bit different to other poker or bingo rooms you might have seen on the net, as they’re offering their own special pentathlon which will be played out live on the PKR forum.

5 events are being planned, one of which will take place every day this week:

Event #1: Joke-athon: (Monday 18th August)
A nice and easy event to get things underway. Simply post your favourite joke. It doesn’t need to be poker related – it just needs to be funny!

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Event #2: Poker Wisdom: (Tuesday 19th August)
Your chance to show how far you’ve come. PKR are encouraging their members to post a piece of invaluable poker knowledge. Don’t worry, this doesn’t have to be a huge essay – in fact it has to be under 50 words – and you may be able to help someone else out in the process!

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Event #3: Best Bluff-athon: (Wednesday 20th August)
Ok, so poker’s not all about bluffing, but it’s a great feeling when you’re able to make an opponent lay down a winning when you’ve got nothing but scraps. The Bluff-athon will allow you to relieve that feeling as you tell the rest of the forum exactly how the whole thing went down.

There are a couple of rules to this: firstly, the bluff must have been succesful and secondly it must have happened on PKR, as you will need to post the details from your Hand History folder.

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Event #4: Poker Poem: (Thursday 21st August)
I’m really not sure how this one is going to go down! However, if you fancy writing a few lines of verse (anything from a Haiku to a Limerick to a sonnet!) about the great game then you could be in with a chance of winning a prize.

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Event #5: Look-alike-athon: (Friday 22nd August)
This final event will need a bit more work and dedication…

As you know, PKR are famous for their 3d poker rooms and easily editable avatars. Well PKR want you to play around with your avatar until he/she looks like someone famous. It doesn’t matter who, they just need to be well known.

Once you’re happy with your work, you’ll simply need to save your changes and post the final picture in the forum along with the person you were trying to imitate.

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So how do you take part?
You’ll be pleased to know it’s very easy to get involved. Every day a post will be created in the PKR Forum containing details of the day’s events. Simply post your best entry into that thread and the board’s Administrators will pick a winner!

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That’s great, so what do I win?
In true Olympic style, each competition will have three winners:

Gold medal – $55 TV Showdown Ticket and a 300 Piece PKR Chipset
Silver medal – $55 TV Showdown Ticket
Bronze medal – $30 PKR Open Ticket

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Best of luck to all. Obviously new members will need to register with PKR in order to post in their forum. So if you’re going to sign up, be sure to have a look at our PKR Bonus page to make sure that you get some free cash while you’re doing so!

PKR planning birthday bash

This Sunday will see PKR celebrating their second birthday in style.

Since its inception, PKR has become the fastest growing online poker site in the UK. Six months ago the online poker room announced that it had served 10,000 players simultaneously for the first and the growth has continued since then.

As way of a celebration, PKR will be handing out a few presents:

  • Three  special freerolls will be hosted. Each one will have a prize pool of $500 to be won.
  • Ten bounty tournaments will run throughout the day with each player trying to take down opponents in order to win some pretty impressive cash prizes.
  • Those of you looking to enter more tournaments for free (or maybe even pick up a few pieces of PKR merchandise from the shop!) will be pleased to hear that players will earn double PKR points between 15.00 and 19.00 GMT.

All in all, Sunday should be a pretty good day. PKR have come a long way in a very short space of time and if they keep growing at this rate, then next year’s birthday could be even more spectacular!

To take advantage of these promotions, new players will need to register their details at www.pkr.com

PKR increase their sign-up bonus

Great news for all of you who have been thinking about signing up for PKR – the web’s primary 3D poker room has improved it’s sign up bonus for all those people depositing for the first time.

On top of the free cash that you can earn by entering a PKR Bonus Code when you first register your details, new players will also receive:

  • 1,500 PKR Points which can be used to buy a seat in the many satellites run by PKR
  • A ticket to the weekly PKR freeroll tournament with a guaranteed $1,000 prize pool
  • 5 free tickets to Premium Freerolls each with a $200-$300 prize pool.

For more information about this improved welcome offer, click here.

Tournaments grow at PKR

The amount of cash up for grabs in PKR’s regular tournaments are increasing with immediate effects … which can only be good news for those of us who are regular players.

The monthly prize fund is increasing to a guaranteed $2.5 million. That means that the prize pool for the PKR open has gone up to $12,500 (from $10,000) and the $4,000 guaranteed daily has been replaced with a $7,500 Guaranteed ‘Grand Prix.’

The best news though is that the buy in amounts for all these tournaments remain the same.

To take advantage of these larger tournaments, you will need to register your details at www.pkr.com

Click here to register to sign up for PKR’s new, bigger tournaments»

PKR’s last WSOP offering

Those people still hoping to play in this year’s WSOP Main Event will have a final chance to win their seat in Vegas thanks to PKR this Sunday evening.

There are only two satellites left for Sunday’s Grand Final – and they will be played this Thursday and Saturday. Those players who want to buy into the final directly will be asked to pay $625 +$40 to be in with a chance of winning one of the 12 prize packages on offer. Each package will include travel to the WSOP in Vegas, accommodation during your stay and most importantly a $10,000 seat in the biggest poker tournament in history.

Those players looking to stake their claim will need to need to register their details at http://www.pkr.com.