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PKR offers a huge variety of bonuses designed to match every players level of play. So, whether you're a committed card fanatic or a casual player it pays to play on PKR.
PKR's amazing Bonus program
Every player who signs up for a PKR account is eligible for a fantastic bonus. All you have to do to claim it is open a PKR account today. We'll give you a 50% bonus of up to $250 on your first deposit or, if you prefer, give you $25 just for depositing aminimum of $20. Either way, you come out a winner.
Get up to $250 on your first deposit!
Ideal for regular players or those who play at mid- or high-limits, you can get this bonus by entering the bonus code PKR01 when making your first deposit.
Terms & Conditions for bonus PKR01
1. Bonus is only open to new PKR customers on their first deposit of $20 or more.
2. A maximum of $250 will be paid out in bonuses.
3. You must use the bonus code of PKR01 when depositing.
4. Qualifying deposits must be made by 30th September 2006.
5. Only one bonus per household.
6. To qualify for the bonus, you must accumulate 125 PKR Points for each $1 of bonus before the bonus is credited to your account. Only PKR Points accumulated through participation in raked hands and real money tournaments will count towards clearing the bonus. Any PKR points earned through PKR Point tournaments, ring games or grants or gifts do not qualify for releasing the bonus.
7. You must earn the required PKR Points within 90 days of making your qualifying deposit.
8. When you reach the required number of PKR Points, the bonus will automatically be credited to your PKR account.
9. Partial bonuses will not be awarded.
Get $25 absolutely free
If you're a less frequent player or you prefer to play low limit poker, don't worry: PKR got a bonus that's been specifically designed to give you that bit extra. Enter the bonus code of PKR02 when making your first deposit and PKR credit your account with $25 when you earn 3,000 PKR Points (which you can do in as few as 20 raked hands!). And you have a whole three months to do it so you won't miss out.
Terms & Conditions for bonus PKR02
1. Bonus is only open to new PKR customers on their first deposit of $20 or more.
2. A maximum of $25 will be paid out in bonuses.
3. You must use the bonus code of PKR02 when depositing.
4. Qualifying deposits must be made by 30th September 2006.
5. Only one bonus per household.
6. To qualify for the bonus, you must accumulate 3,000 PKR Points. Only PKR Points accumulated through participation in raked hands and real money tournaments will count towards clearing the bonus. Any PKR points earned through PKR Point tournaments, ring games or grants or gifts do not qualify for releasing the bonus.
7. You must earn the required PKR Points within 90 days of making your qualifying deposit.
8. When you reach the required number of PKR Points, the bonus will automatically be credited to your PKR account.
9. Partial bonuses will not be awarded. |
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Join PKR and you could get your hands on a copy of How to win at Online Poker absolutely free.
Everyone who joins PKR and earns just 3,000 PKR Points (you can do this in as little as 20 raked hands) will automatically be sent a copy of PKR's exclusive strategy guide.
From getting to grip with the basics to mastering advanced tactics this book is designed to take any players game to the next level and retails for just under $20.
How to win at Online Poker
- Expert strategies for mastering the world's hottest game from some of the best poker writers in the world.
- Clear, concise and complete. Whether you're just getting started or an old hand there's plenty in this book to help improve your game.
- Beautifully presented on high quality paper with vivid full color illustrations.
Free book terms and conditions
1. Bonus is only open to new PKR customers who make a deposit of $20 during the promotional window.
2. The free book promotion will run until 1st October 2006.
3. Only one free book per customer.
4. To qualify for the free book, you must accumulate 3,000 PKR Points. Only PKR Points accumulated through participation in raked hands and real money tournaments will count towards clearing the bonus. Any PKR points earned through PKR Point tournaments, ring games or grants or gifts do not qualify for releasing the bonus.
5. When you reach the required number of PKR Points, the book will automatically be sent to the address that you used during registration; please ensure your details are correct.
6. In the event of any dispute, the decision of the poker room management is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
7. This promotion is operated by PKR Limited. PKR reserve the right to change, amend or withdraw this offer at any time without notice for whatever reason. |
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Freerolls
If you love freerolls then make PKR your home for tournament poker. PKR have got a huge range of free to enter tournaments with cash prizes rolling daily with prize pools ranging from $100 to our $500 Sunday Mega-tournament.
Every poker player's best friend, freerolls are free-to-enter tournaments that offer real money prizes. Below, you'll find a huge schedule of freerolls at PKR, and they offer the perfect chance to play some risk-free poker with a shot at a real money prize.
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Wed |
Thur |
Fri |
Sat |
Sun |
| 08:00 |
05:00 |
13:00 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
| 11:00 |
08:00 |
16:00 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
| 13:00 |
10:00 |
18:00 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
| 15:30 |
12:30 |
20:30 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$500 |
| 17:30 |
14:30 |
22:30 |
$100 |
$100 |
$100 |
$100 |
$100 |
$100 |
$100 |
| 21:00 |
18:00 |
02:00 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
$250 |
| 22:30 |
19:30 |
03:30 |
$50 |
$50 |
$50 |
$50 |
$50 |
$50 |
$50 |
| 00:00 |
21:00 |
05:00 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
$20 |
New joiners freeroll
Each week PKR will be inviting all that week's new joiners to play in a $1000 freeroll as our way of saying hello.
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Re-buy tournaments
During a standard tournament, when you who lose all of your chips you're eliminated from the tournament (this is known as a “freezeout”). But during a re-buy tournament that's not necessarily the case. Re-buys give you the chance to buy a new chip stack within a certain predefined time frame (the “re-buy period”) when you bust out or fall below a certain chip count.
Unless otherwise stated, you can re-buy at any time during the first 30 to 60 minutes of a re-buy tournament (the exact amount of time will be posted on the tournament page) if your chip stack falls below half of the initial stack.
What's more, all of our re-buy tournaments include an “add-on” option that allows you to top up with additional chips at the end of the re-buy period, regardless of how many chips you have. It's a great way of giving your chip stack a welcome boost!
Re-buy tournaments are popular as they can help you avoid the often fickle input of Lady Luck - if you get outdrawn and busted, you can re-buy and continue playing.
What's more, all the re-buys go to the prize pool, meaning that these forms of tournaments can often yield bumper pay days.
All re-buy tournaments are clearly marked in the tournament schedule and listings in the lobby.
Speed and turbo tournaments
Speed and turbo tournaments are fun and fast ways to enjoy your poker.
Sometimes you just don't have time to settle in for several hours to play a tourney and that's where speed and turbo tournaments come into their own.
Featuring quickly increasing blinds and a starting stack of 1,500 chips, these tournaments require a much more aggressive strategy and feature plenty of action right from the start.
Short-handed tournaments
Short-handed tournaments combine the skill and speed of a short-handed single-table tournament with the big prizes and excitement of a major multi-table event.
Inspired by the inclusion of a short-handed no-limit hold 'em event at the World Series, PKR is one of the only online poker rooms that allows you to experience this fast, fun and rewarding tournament format.
Unlike a standard multi-table tournament, where all players are placed randomly in tables of ten, PKR's short-handed MTTs see the field distributed randomly at tables of six. Apart from that, short-handed tournaments function as standard multi-table events.
Deep stack tournaments
PKR's deep stack tournaments give you more poker for your money.
The opposite of a speed or turbo tournament, our deep stack events allow you to dig and really play some poker. With double the usual number of starting chips and a 30-minute clock, these tournaments favor the more calculating, conservative and experienced player.
Deep stack tournaments are always freezeout multi-table tournaments. |
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Sometimes featuring thousands of players, multi-table tournaments (MTTs) allow you to pit your wits against other players and compete for some really big prizes.
MTTs are scheduled events, meaning that they start at a specified date and time with players registering in advance. You can register at any time for an MTT from the moment it's posted in the lobby to a minute before the start.
Once you've bought-in, you'll start the MTT with the same number of chips as every other player and you'll be randomly assigned a seat. As the name suggests, the large number of entrants are seated at more than one table (either in tables of six or ten players).
As the tournament progresses and players get knocked out, tables are closed and players are re-seated to ensure that conditions remain fair for all players. Eventually the tournament will get to the point where there are only enough players to sit on one table. These players will then battle it out until one player has all the chips in play and is the winner.
The exact nature of the prize pool and how it pays out depends on a lot of factors. Look here for a full breakdown.
At PKR you'll find a huge range of MTTs running every day and with buy-ins starting at just $1 you're sure to find a game that'll get you hooked. |
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Unlike a multi-table tournament, a sit and go has no scheduled start time. Instead sit and go's start when the table fills up with players. Sit and go's usually fill up pretty fast so, even if a tournament is empty, it will normally be full within minutes. If you find yourself in a sit and go that isn't filling up, don't worry. You can unregister up until the point the tournament is full and look for more action elsewhere.
As with any tournament, all sit and go buy-ins go towards the prize pool which is then distributed amongst the top finishers. The exact breakdown again depends upon the number of players and the buy-in.
The most common form of sit and go tournament is a single-table tournament. This is where either six or ten players are involved at one just table, with the winner being the last man standing.
That said, sit and go's can technically be for any number of players, although lower numbers (between six and 64) are far more common. |
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A satellite tournament is a tournament where the prize, instead of being cash, is an entry into a larger tournament with a higher buy-in. Satellites are a great way of getting into big money tournaments.
The aptly named Chris Moneymaker is possibly poker's most famous satellite qualifier - he won his way into the WSOP via a satellite tourney in 2003 and ended up winning the event, and $2.5 million along the way.
There are two types of satellite tournament - single-table and multi-table. Both work in a similar way, except that a single-table satellite is contested between either six or ten players with the winner taking the seat in the bigger event. The number of qualifiers for the bigger event in a multi-table satellite is determined by the number of players and the size of the prize pool. It's not uncommon for three or four winners to qualify (with any remaining cash going to the next placed finisher).
But there's no doubting the major draw of online satellite tourneys - the chance to turn a small stake into a major tournament seat. It costs thousands to buy-in to tournaments like the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour or European Poker Tour. In contrast, Chris Moneymaker won his seat in the WSOP in a $40 online qualifier. PKR have loads of these qualifiers that you can enter almost every day and that you can jump right into. |
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Heads-up tournaments are perhaps the greatest single test of poker skill.
As the name suggests, these tournaments involve two players going head to head until one of them is out of chips. Winners of each round move up until only the final two are left to play it out for the big prize.
If 64 players register for a heads-up tournament, the first round will consist of 32 head-to-head match-ups which will then deliver 32 winners who will contest the next round. The field continues to thin until a champion is crowned!
| Round 1 |
Round 2 |
Round 3 |
Round 4 |
Round 5 |
Round 6 |
| 64 players |
32 players |
16 players |
8 players |
4 players |
2 players |
| 32 matches |
16 matches |
8 matches |
4 matches |
2 matches |
1 match |
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This is poker like you've never seen it before.
PKR has all the great poker games you know and love, but presented in a new and exciting way - check out this amazing list of features...
Games
Texas Hold 'em, Omaha and Omaha Hi /Lo.
Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit variants.
Heads- up, short- handed and full- handed ring games at a wide range of levels.
Tournaments
The most complete tournament offering available anywhere in online poker.
Six and ten seater Sit and Go's (single- table tournaments).
Multi-table tournaments for up to 5, 000 players.
Heads-up tournaments.
Short-handed multi-table tournaments.
Satellites offering seats at the world's greatest land-based tournaments, like the WSOP.
A wide range of daily freerolls.
The PKR Pro Tour, The PKR Series and other fantastic exclusive events.
Big money guarantees and prize pool additions.
Speed and turbo tournaments for when you want a quick poker fix.
Bounty tournaments featuring big name players like Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly.
PKR point booster tournaments. Buy in with PKR points to take a shot at seriously boosting your PKR point count.
Ultra-playable pro tourneys with increased starting chips and slower levels. |
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