31 May 2008 - PKR Presents Deal or No Deal PKR is now offering its players the chance to play a very exciting game show online, Deal or No Deal. The game show can either be played for fun or for real money and a player can win up to $1,000. By using one's same PKR account and avatar, players are lead through the game by Noel Edmonds, the Master of Ceremonies and enjoy an extremely realistic 3D studio environment.
26 May 2008 - PKR Offering Two New Sit and Go Formats Two new sit and go formats are now being offered by PKR Poker. The first is called Double Thru which allows players to buy-in for as little as $5, up to $50, and stand in line to double their money if ending up in the top five. The second tournament format is called Winner Takes it All where six players battle for one large prize pool., with buy-ins between $1 -$20.
21 May 2008 - PKR Poker Comes Out Tops in the UK UK players have voted
PKR Poker as their favorite site. In a poll conducted by Hitwise, an internet competitive intelligence service, PKR came out as the highest hit poker site in the first quarter of 2008. PKR Poker received more hits than some of UK's most popular poker rooms such as Ladbrokes, William Hill and VC Poker.
20 May 2008 - It Pays to be Loyal to PKR Players loyal to PKR Poker have something to smile about after the poker room announced this week the launch of its new loyalty program – ClubPKR. Through the club, eligible players will be able to participate in exclusive freerolls, monthly challenges, free tournament tickets and will be entitled to fast-track transaction processing.
14 May 2008 - PKR Poker to Air its Games PKR Poker has announced that will begin airing its game play into fifteen million homes across Europe. Home viewers will be able to have a sneak at two of PKR's top tournaments - the $100 buy-in $10,000 Guaranteed tournament on a Thursday and $60 buy-in '$20,000 Guaranteed TV Showdown' on a Saturday. The show will air nightly and offer unique footage taken from these tournaments.
13 May 2008 - PKR Poker Brings Back Super Series The Super Series will return to
PKR Poker players from 18th June, with exciting events and tournaments for everyone to enjoy. For twelve days, players of all levels can participate in a wide variety of games, with new features such as Terminator Tournaments, Deep and Steep tournaments and Team PKR Bounty being added. The series climaxes with the Tournament of the Champions for winners of each event and the top players on the leaderboard.
10 May 2008 - PKR Launches Poker Magazine A million dollar deal between Dennis Communications and PKR Poker has been signed which will result in a quarterly magazine been published and distributed. PKR's magazine will contain poker strategy and tips articles, poker news, new promotions and up and coming player reviews. Due to already appear next month, the magazine will be distributed free to PKR's top players.
5 May 2008 - PKR Offering $10K Every Night, and More $10K guaranteed prize is being offered by PKR Poker every week night. In addition, current tournaments range from the $20,000 guaranteed Saturday Showdown, the $25,000 guaranteed Sunday Classic and the last Sunday of every month seeing the $100,000 guaranteed PKR Masters.
3 May 2008 - PFA Awards Party Sponsored by PKR Glitz and glam was the way to go on Sunday evening when
PKR.com hosted an after party for those that had attended of the Professional Footballer's Association Awards. The event was held in one of London's smartest restaurants, Albannach, located in Trafalgar Square and there were fun casino and poker games available to all. Many celebs attended the event and the excitement continued until the early hours of the morning.
1 May 2008 - Players are the Winners with PKR's new Tournament Format PKR online poker room announced the merger of two tournament formats to give their regulars maximum poker play enjoyment. The new format – Terminator Bounty – allows six PKR bounty players a chance at $100 and a guaranteed $10,000 of the prize pool, while players can also receive $5 from another player's $30 buy-in for every player that they make bust.
29 April 2008 - PKR Poker Players to Attend APT Manila PKR Poker is planning on sending at least three online qualifiers to the Manila leg of the Asian Poker Tour. Taking place from May 27th to June 1st, PKR players can try grab one of the three seats being offered until May 12th. The satellite is a $200 + $15 buy-in and players stand in line of winning a $5000 prize package - $2500 buy-in for the main event and travel and accommodation costs covered.
26 January 2008 - Tournament heaven at PKR PKR has completely rebuilt its tournament schedule to give you more fun and more excitement! New Multi-table Sit & Go’s tournaments, new blind structures, bigger guarantees tourneys (up to $75,000), Terminator tournaments, Phase tournaments and more right now at
PKR.
11 January 2008 - PKR passes 10,000 concurrent player mark PKR hit another major milestone on Sunday 6th January when 10,007 users played online concurrently. PKR has been launched only 18 months ago. PKR.com Marketing Director Simon Prodger said, “PKR’s recent TV advertising campaign coupled with a truly unique product has accelerated our already phenomenal growth and takes our community to the next level”.
21 November 2007 - PKR Casino opened PKR announced today the launch of the world’s coolest online casino – PKRCasino. With range of favourite games like blackjack, roulette and casino hold ‘em (a big hit with poker players) plus video poker, slots, craps and more PKRCasino delivers the games players love most. Visit
PKR Casino now.
1 September 2007 - PKR Octoberfest announced PKR Oktoberfest will be another groundbreaking poker festival at
PKR. Big guaranteed prizes, buy-ins designed to appeal to every level of play, exclusive events, bounty tournaments and PKR's first $50,000 guaranteed prize pool tournament. That's Octoberfest, starting October 5th!
17 August 2007 - PKR's first birthday PKR has come a long way since its historic launch on August 17, 2006. Almost a million players from all over the world have registered to play in the next-generation poker room in its first year. PKR has established itself to the top 20 pokerrooms with up to 8000 players logged into the game concurrently.
14 July 2007 - PKR Super Series The PKR biggest event ever, with over $150,000 in guaranteed prizes, starts today! Play huge range of events including the $35K Main Event. Qualify to the Tournament of Champions and win a wonderful $13K EPT package to Barcelona.
22 June 2007 - PKR go to the movies PKR will start a six week cinema campaign connected to the release of the new poker film Lucky You! 30-second sponsorship spot will appear before all screenings of the new poker movie in over 450 cinemas across the UK. "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." said Simon Prodger, Marketing Director at PKR.
22 May 2007 - Version 1.2 Live! New version of PKR has been released. New Avatar Shop and Items, Standing up at All in, New Environments, Moods and Voices that's version 1.2. Run PKR and download it now!
2 April 2007 - PKR League opens 3D Poker PKR runs own private online poker league at
PKR. The first season of the PKR League is ready to start.
2 March 2007 - Win a seat in the 2007 WSOP Springfest is here with an amazing $85,000 in prizes. Get into the action by qualifying for PKR's biggest tournament ever, the $25K Springfest main event. Satellite tournaments to all events for as little as $1.10! Qualify for the
tournament of champions – a 10 seat tournament with a place in the
2007 World Series of Poker tournament.
19 December 2006 - PKR unleash v1.1 Version 1.1 is here with improved multi-tabling. Now you can play up to four games at once on PKR with all new screen-in-screen view. They are also adding a huge range of Christmas costumes that you can wear to get into the spirit of the Christmas.
15 December 2006 - The PKR $25,000 Seasonal Spectacular $25,000 is in prizes in 18 cool events starting Saturday 16, December and rolling right through to January 7 at
PKR Poker. Check out the $25,000 PKR Seasonal Spectacular for your chance to play in the biggest ever freeroll at PKR. Win PS3 in $5 buy-in on Tuesday, 26 December! Celebrate $2007 in extra cash in the biggest money added tournament ever on PKR - $2007 added tournament.
26 October 2006 - PKR unleash v1.05 PKR Poker unleashed the latest version of their software. v1.05 is better looking and smoother running than previous version. Switch, Maestro and Solo cards are now supported. They changed file management so the PKR will download faster and work better with anti-virus programs. Fro lower-spec machines the lower detail character models are now available. It can be selected in the Options menu.
Visit PKR Poker to find out all changes.
11 September 2006 - PKR gets prestigious award nomination eGaming Review, respected publication in the online gaming business, has nominated PKR Poker for the coveted 2006 Start Up Operator of the Year award. The awards will be held in London on 9 October at the Natural History Museum.
5 September 2006 - PKR $1000 added tournament PKR Poker announced their biggest added money tournament ever with a $1000 being added to the prize pool. The buy in is only $1+10c. Registration is open now, be sure to
get in!
17 August 2006 - PKR launch for real money play 3D poker room PKR started their beta software for testing in May. Now they went live for real money for non-US players only. Due to the online gambling issues in the US they postpone their launch for real money in the USA. They expect to open PKR real money play for US players on October.
Click here to be informed as soon as PKR launch real money play in the USA.
15 August 2006 - New PKR's amazing Bonus program Every player who signs up for a PKR Poker real money account is eligible for a first deposit bonus. They’ll match your deposit of up to $250 with a 50% bonus or give you $25 just for depositing at least $20. Look at
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14 August 2006 - PKR at the WSOP PKR introduced its next generation online poker room at this year’s World Series of Poker Lifestyle Show. “Interest in PKR at the show went far beyond our expectations – it was a real vote of confidence at the world’s premier poker event.”, said PKR Marketing Director Simon Prodger.