Wednesday, December 19, 2007

PKR Promotions for December

PKR has just announced their December to Remember promotion on their poker website. This December, PKR will be putting on a slew of promotions, and you can bet that player traffic will greatly increase this month. Below, we'll take a look at each promotion so you can decide if it's a PKR promo that interests you.

Christmas Gear - PKR has added all sorts of Christmas outfits and additions for your player avatar. Besides simple goodies to add to your characters' current outfit, you can also take on a Bad Santa costume to hit the tables.

Big Money Tournaments - PKR has announced that they will be holding multiple cash-added, guaranteed, big money tournaments. These are in addition to free rolls they will be sponsoring for the Holidays, including the $2,008 added New Year's Day tournament.

LA Poker Classic Packages - PKR will be handing out three big packages worth $12,500 each to players who win satellite tournaments to the L.A. Poker Classic. The package covers the $10,000 buy in, as well as $2,500 "fun" money to blow on the trip.

Keep your eyes peeled for more PKR news!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

PKR Casino Launches

PKR has launched their highly waited PKRCasino platform to great reviews from online gaming fans. PKR Casino is an extension of the highly popular PKR poker site, and offers online casino gaming including games such as blackjack, casino hold'em, and progressive slots.

Players are already flooding the site, and have appreciated what they've found. The graphics, clean user interface, and quick download have quickly made PKR Casino a hot spot in the online casino world.

Check out the site now, or learn more about the features at the link posted above.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

PKR Bonuses Reviewed

PKR Offers Wide Variety of Bonuses!

Players who love to play online on sites that offer great bonuses should check out PKR. The site has a wide variety of bonuses available for any player no matter what your bankroll. The site offers many levels of free money. If you earn 7,500 PKR Points you get $50 free dollars and a buy-in for two satellites for the monthly $30K guaranteed. If you can hold out and earn 50,000 PKR Points you will receive $250 free money, a Tee shirt, and satellite tickets to the European Poker Tour stage two qualifiers and the monthly $30K guaranteed.

If you can hold out even longer and earn 135,000 PKR Points you will receive an even bigger reward. A player will receive $600 in cash plus first pick at some awesome prizes. You could receive a buy-in to the weekly $12.5K guaranteed.

PKR also offers a bonus for their high rollers. Players can receive 100% of $2,000 deposit bonus only at PKR. A player must request of the site that a daily maximum of at least $2,000 to cover the deposit for the bonus. The bonus code is best2000. Be sure to enter it in so you will receive this generous bonus.

Several other bonus codes are available for a player to receive free money. Use best600 to receive 100% up to $600. Use best250 to get a 50% bonus on your first deposit up to $250. Or you can choose to use the bonus code best50 when you make your first deposit and when you have earned 7,500 PKR Points your account will be credited $50.

Finally, you can make your first deposit to the site using Moneybookers and you will receive a 100% bonus up to $300. A player must set up a Moneybookers account and use that specific account to deposit money into their PKR account. The bonus code is Moneybookers.

The Moneybookers site is an e-wallet site the securely transfers your money to other sites.

To sign up or learn more about the bonuses mentioned visit PKR.com and click on the promotions tab. You can then check out the bonus section and sign up to start receiving money into your account.

Also, make sure to use this PKR Bonus Code for the top bonus offer.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

PKR Emote Commands

PKR Players are nothing if not loyal, and with all that PKR offers to entertain them, why wouldn't they be. Along with the latest PKR Poker update came great new HIDDEN emotes! As if the emotes themselves weren't unique enough, PKR, as we've mentioned before, hid them, making a game out of finding the emotes before you can actually use them!

An Emote is an action your poker player can perform while you're playing at PKR, such as '/Kiss' great for buttering up competition of the opposite sex. Or '/loser' for those players you don't much care to be kissing up to .

PKR gives players the ability to keep five emotes handy at the bottom of the screen. Or you can use the more hidden, and more fun, emotes that are only accessible via your keyboard!

We've uncovered quite a few of these for you to play with, feel free to post a comment below and let us know how they worked, what they did, what was unexpected, or if you've unveiled any we missed here!

We've scoured the net in search of PKR emotes, and here's what we came up with, if you've any to add, please leave a comment and we'll get them added to the list just as soon as we can.

P.S. - If you haven't played at PKR yet, use these PKR Bonus Codes to get a special deposit bonus.



/atlast - at last
/brb - will be right back
/boo - boo
/bosh - bosh
/bravo - bravo
/bringiton - bring it on
/bye - bye =will see you
/cheer - cheer
/chicken - chicken
/chuckle - chuckle
/clap - clap
/congrats
/congratulations - congratulations
/cough - cough
/crikey - crikey
/cry - cry
/cu - see ya
/dance - dance
/drum fingers - drum fingers
/dude - dude
/fan - fan (op jezelf = on fire)
/finally - finally
/flirt - flirt
/frown - frown
/gasp - gasp
/gb - good bet
/gc - good call
/gf - good fold
/gg - good game
/gl - good luck
/grin - grin
/grr - grr
/hello - hello
/hi - hi
/iyf - in your face
/kiss - kiss
/laugh - laugh
/lmao - laugh my ass off
/lol - laugh out loud
/loser - loser
/nh - nice hand
/niceone - nice one
/no - no
/nk - no kidding
/np - no problem
/nty - no thank you
/noway - no way
/omg - oh my god
/oops - oops
/orly - oh really
/owned - owned
/phew - phew
/ronaldo
/rude - up yours
/shake head - shake head
/shame - shame
/shutup - shut up
/smile - smile
/sorry - sorry
/stretch - stretch
/sweet - sweet
/ty - thank you
/think - think
/thumbsdown - thumbs down
/thumbsup - thumbs up
/time - time
/tut - t
/typical - typical
/unlucky - unlucky
/wp - well played
/whatever - whatever
/wink - wink
/yawn - yawn
/yay - yay
/yes - yes
/yw - you're welcome


Chip Tricks: (You have to earn these)

/knuckle_roll
/snake_charmer
/bounce_backspin
/bounce_stack
/ten_chip_shuffle
/butterfly

Have fun with your new emotes!

Monday, October 8, 2007

PKR Announces Satellite Tournaments for EPT Packages

Online poker players will be offered the opportunity to win one of two EPT Dublin poker packages. Each package is worth more than 13 thousand dollars, and allows the winner to become a part of one of the most famous events on the European poker schedule for 2008!

PKR players are offered several methods of entry, in fact, a multi table qualifier tournament is available every day for as little as $1.28. Another weekly Multi Table tournament is available each week beginning September 21st, with the a seat at the big game being awarded for every five feeder tournament entrants.

Sit n go tournaments are also available for a total of $29.50, the winners of these games go straight to the main satellite event to play for their shot into the EPT. Smaller buy in sit n go tournaments are also available, winners of these smaller buy in games win their way to the feeder games that feed into the main PKR satellite game.

For those that prefer a direct approach, you are also of course able to just buy into the main satellite event straight away, seats are available for $250 plus the $20 fee. The satellite main event is scheduled to be held on the 19th of October.

If you're ready to qualify for the EPT, download PKR now and get to it!

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Happy Birthday PKR

With a promise to change the way online poker was viewed, PKR launched in August of 2006. A year later, the next generation 3D poker site has registered over 1 million player’s world wide. Now instead of it being a new up and coming web site, it can be viewed as a site that has arrived and is flourishing.

Wanting everyone to be able to receive the full benefits of all the unique features offered at PKR, it launched as a stand alone operator. Despite not being a part of a larger network, they have grown through distinctive marketing campaigns and most importantly, word of mouth. It has even overcome the ultimate hurdle in its current growth as on the eve of its launch the US passed the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which kept PKR totally out of the US market.

PKR started not only from a stand still but with a large internet poker community instantly wiped out and had built itself up to a top 20 poker room with over 7,500 players logged in a night and a total of $245 million bet in the past year.

So what is ahead for PKR? According to PKR Marketing Director Simon Prodger, “We’re very excited about our first year results and it’s definitely cause for celebration. But we have no intentions of resting on our laurels. PKR has set very aggressive growth targets for the next 12 months and we’re looking forward to even bigger and better things to come.”

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Poktoberfest is Coming to PKR.com

Online poker is a game of it's own, and the poker rooms are competing in promotions, each designing their own approach. Becoming known for seasonal treats, PKR.com is offering the ten days of autumn, as part of the Oktoberfest. The new value adding games are adding to the online sites attraction as well. The Main Event of the Oktoberfest is anticipated to generate the biggest prize pool to date, potentially as much as 50 thousand dollars, or more.

Marketing Director of Pkr.com Simon Prodger spoke about Oktoberfest saying, “PKR has earned its reputation as the home of poker promotions with great events like Oktoberfest. We’ll be releasing more details soon.” Everything will be disclosed on their site clearly as details become available.

PKR.com brings the feel of live play tournaments to your home PC with amazing graphics and unique customization opportunities. 3D characters do everything from victory dances to table chip tricks. In tandem the only way to view your cards, is to pick them up as you would across the felt from any live competitor. The most successful showcase of the graphic designer is the bounty tournaments played on the site, where poker pro look-a-likes carry a price on their heads for the person who forces them out of the tournament.

This site is a showcase of poker talent, potential and opportunity for the technology to further develop in the industry. The promising fledgling site, has shown why it is one of the fastest growing online poker rooms available today, and Oktoberfest will be no exception.

Get the top PKR bonus with this PKR Bonus Code. Sign up today!

Sunday, September 2, 2007

PKR Announces $30,000.00 Monthly Tournament

PKR Poker has announced a brand new addition to their poker tournament schedule! The online poker room will now be offering a $30 Thousand Dollar Guaranteed Prize Pool Game every month! The first 30k PKR Guaranteed tournament will be held on the 29th of this month. Tournaments will then be held on the last Saturday of each month. Satellites are available on PKR for as little as $2.18.

PKR has also changed the weekly Deep Stack event held Sundays at 14:00 GMT , that event will also be a guaranteed tournament beginning this coming Sunday. The prize pool will be guaranteed at $1,500.00

These new and improved PKR featured online poker tournaments are in addition to the currently offered European Poker Tour (EPT) London Grand Final Satellite tournaments and the weekly PKR Poker $10,000 guaranteed tournaments which are currently held on Sundays, and the PKR $12,000.00 tournament on Saturdays.

Keep checking back for the latest PKR news!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

PKR Poker Software V1.3

PKR has updated their famous video game-like software adding many new features!

One of the new features is called PKR Pal, this little guy manages PKR poker installations, upgrades, and updates all while you play, so that you wont have to wait for updates to install before you can login and play poker anymore! PKR Pal isn't nosy, and doesn't collect personal information while installed on your PC.

PKR has also added new emoticons and moods! Some of the emotes are in the game menu, whilst others are hidden within the software and can only be accessed via '/' commands, such as /typical. Poker players are especially excited about the addition of emotes that will work while your player is standing, if you switch tables, or games, the emote is not lost.

You can also create your own emotes! If you're familiar with IRC (Internet relay chat) then you'll likely recognize the /me command. If you haven't ever chatted in an IRC Chatroom /me is kind of a way to speak in the third person. For instance, try "/me is the poker king!!!" and your name will replace /me so if you're say, Phil Ivey, you will say "Phil Ivey is the Poker King!!!" in the poker chat.

PKR has also introduced new voices and has announced that even more voices will be offered in the very near future.

PKR has also finally stepped up to the year 2007 with poker player notes, notice something about another player, a tell, or just want to note a fish, or shark, slow player etc. PKR now offers the note taking feature. To access player notes, click on your opponents name and choose 'notes' insert your notes and hit enter. Once you've saved the note that player will have a special symbol next to their name indicating to you in the future that you have left a note on this player.
And if you don't want your bad decisions rubbed in your face, you can also opt to hide your folded cards, this option is available at the bottom of the game tab in your options menu under game.

Additional PKR Changes allow the purchase of tournament entry tickets with your PKR points directly from the PKR shop, and Moneybookers has been added as a PKR Account funding source!

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Who's Playing at PKR Poker?

With $1,470,242.93 wagered at PKR's online poker tables on August 17, 2007 (up from $2,591.48 the same day in 2006) someone is playing at PKR. So who are they? A report published recently shows us that of the 48,416 people that logged in on August 17 this year, more than 80% of them were men, in fact there are 828,918 registered male poker players on PKR, compared to just 74,612 female PKR poker players (8.2%).

PKR is definitely what we'd consider a global poker room, with poker players gambling amongst each other at the tables from more than 236 countries around the world. 22% of PKR's registered players, totaling 199,605 poker players are from the United Kingdom, another 16.1% from the Netherlands, 8.4% of PKR's registered players are logging onto the poker room from Germany. 7.5% from France, and the fifth largest represented country at PKR is Canada, with 49,897 registered players representing 5.5% of PKR's total registered poker players online.

The video game theme offered by PKR is pretty popular with the younger generation, and I'm happy to report, that looking at the numbers, as they're reported, I am a part of the younger generation! Even in my 30's! The average poker player fighting it out across PKR's poker tables is between 18 and 35, and male. The primary reasons that PKR poker is so popular with this group include amazing graphics (really!) and technology that is very customizable, and player interaction.

Friday, August 3, 2007

PKR Featured on the Big Screen

PKR has come to an agreement with Carlton Screen and Pearl & Dean to feature their poker site at showings of Lucky You, a brand new poker film releasing in Europe. The sponsorship agreement states that PKR gets the 30 second Silver Sponsor spot before the film plays.

The movie is playing on over 450 screens throughout Europe, and with countless showings at each screen you can imagine how many people will be exposed to PKR's 30 second advertisement. Also, PKR should see success from this campaign because the movie is a poker movie, so the audience will be very targeted.

Lucky You stars Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana, and is directed by Curtis Hanson. Besides these major players in the entertainment industry, the film also has cameo appearances from some of the world's biggest poker players including Phil Helmuth Jr., Daniel Negreanu, and Johnny Chan.

PKR is optimistic about this campaign, and Simon Prodger, Marketing Director at PKR, stated the following:

"Showcasing the PKR.com brand alongside Lucky You, the biggest poker movie to appear in years, makes absolute sense and allows us to reach up to a million poker fans in an engaging and high-impact manner. We're confident that the big screen will maximize the impact of our stunning graphics and unique game play bringing thousands of new players to our game."

This is exciting news for PKR, and we're anxious to see the results of the campaign. This should be good news for all of us!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

PKR Bonus Offers

PKR has authorized us to provide our blog viewers with their top online bonus offers. If you use the links/bonus codes below, you'll be assured that you're getting the top bonus available for PKR.com. I'm sure you understand what poker bonuses are, but if not, here's a quick explanation.

By signing up to a poker room you can often get a bonus on your deposit. This means that if you deposit, say, $50, you may get a bonus of $50 or even $100 more. Often times you have to unlock the bonus by playing a certain number of hands or accumulating a certain number of player points. This is to protect the poker room from freeloaders. Anyhow, let's get into the PKR bonus offers.

The first bonus offer is for players who only play occasionally. This offer gives you a $50 fixed bonus on any deposit $50 or higher. To unlock this bonus, you have to earn 6,000 PKR points. These points come fast, and for a thorough explanation on PKR points, keep your eyes on this blog in the future.

The next bonus offer is for players who play slightly higher stakes than the average player, and play more often. This bonus gives you a 50% up to $250 match bonus, with a minimum deposit of $100. This means that if you deposit $150, you'll receive a $75 bonus (50% of $150). To unlock the bonus, you need to earn 150 PKR points for every bonus dollar you have.

The last bonus is for serious online poker players, or players who are going to make a large deposit. It is a 100% up to $600 match bonus, and you have to deposit at least $250. To unlock this bonus, you have to earn 200 PKR points for every bonus dollar you are unlocking.

If you are interested in obtaining any of these offers, check out this PKR Bonus Code page. It has all of the top negotiated bonuses for PKR, and we haven't been able to find anything higher than what is offered at that page.

If you are already a player at PKR, just use the bonus code when depositing. However, if you're not a player at PKR, just click the link to obtain your bonus and sign up. Everything will be handled automatically.

Good luck at PKR, and I hope you find these bonuses useful!

PKR Super Series Comes to a Close

The PKR Super Series is finally coming to a close. The event was a series of tournaments that all culminated into a final event, the Tournament of Champions. There were 14 regular tournaments, and a different person won each one.

The Tournament of Champions is comprised of all the winners of the regular Series events, with the winner receiving a $13,000 package to play in a European Poker Tour event in Barcelona, Spain. The 14 series tournament winners will square off for this grand prize on August 5, a week from today. Also, the top 5 players overall during the Super Series will also gain entry to the Tournament of Champions, even if they didn't win an individual event.

Now, although only the winner of the Finale will be going to Barcelona, every series winner got something special. Besides the money they won from winning their respective tournaments, each winner of a Super Series tournament received a custom engraved silver bracelet with the PKR user name on it. This is a similar theme to the World Series of Poker, and will surely make a nice keepsake for the players.

Besides the Tournament of Champions, there is one event remaining for the PKR Super Series. It's the Fourplay Freeroll, and will be held on Wednesday, August 1st. This freeroll has a $5,000 prize pool and is open to anyone who played 3 Super Series events plus the Main Event tournament. There will be a limited number of players in this, so it should be a huge payout for many players.

I hope to see you in these tournaments, and keep checking back for more PKR news and events.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

PKR Poker Blog - The Start

Hello everyone,

This blog has been started to inform you about all of the events and news regarding PKR.com, the leader in online 3D poker. If you haven't heard about PKR yet, you're missing out. The site gives each player their own character, that can be customized and developed to look just like you, or like anything you want.

Also, at the table you are immersed into a 3D poker environment. You are not stuck with the standard 2D avatars around a poker table with a birds eye view. You can choose any view you'd like, and watch the players interact while playing cards.

PKR is not just about its graphics or software, it also is an outstanding poker room. PKR offers tournaments, cash tables, and sit n go's, just like every other online poker room. As of now, they are only open to non-US players, but foreign players can have a blast playing at the room.

That's all for today, but keep your eye here for future PKR news and events.