Category: Prizes

PKR’s licence to kill

This weekend PKR is giving all its players a chance to win an Omega Seamaster – the watch worn by Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

To be in with a chance of winning it, you’ll need to play any real money game over this weekend. Every game you play will win you another ticket for the Omega prize draw … so the more games you play, the better your chance of winning. The competition runs until Sunday evening and winners will be announced next week.

There are also a number of deadly runner-up prizes too. PKR are giving away 20 copies of one of the most popular poker books of the year: Kill Everyone by top online players Lee Nelson, Tyson Streib and Kim Lee so either way it could be a very profitable weekend!

$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»

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

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»

Kill Everyone with PKR

For this week only, PKR are offering the top players in their Terminator Extreme tournaments a free gift.

The top 50 bounty hunters of the week will each be given a copy of the newest and most eagerly anticipated poker books to hit the shelves in recent times. Kill Everyone is the second book written by online poker star Lee Nelson and also contains contributions from Tysen Streib and Kim Lee (both hugely sucessful players in their own right).

For those of you new to this type of tournament, have a read of our PKR Terminator Tournament overview and pick up a PKR Bonus before signing up.

Trips to Los Angeles up for grabs

Friday evening will see three packages, each worth over $12,500, given away by PKR in the Grand Final of their latest satellite tournament.

Each package includes a seat at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic in the city of Angels to be held later in the year.

It’s still not too late to enter. Seats for the final can be bought directly for $250 or alternatively there are still satellite tournaments open to players for as little as $1.28

New, bigger prizes

I’m pleased to reveal that PKR have announced that there will now be even more money in the pot for their members to win. You can now take your shot at huge new guaranteed prize pools on PKR like $15,000 every Saturday night (up $2,500), $20,000 guaranteed every Sunday night (up $5,000), $50,000 guaranteed every month (up $10,000)! Buy-in on the night or win your way in through satellites rolling right now.