PKR Poker Bonus

Well the 25th December may have come and gone, but PKR are still celebrating Christmas with a variety of different tournaments all with increased prize pools.

Santa’s Bounty will be running tomorrow and has an extra $1,500 up for grabs and on Saturday PKR have made a guaranteed first prize of $50,000 available in their famous 50K tournament.

That’s not all though, players will also have the chance to earn one million PKR Poker points in a special one-of-a-kind tournament being played on News Years Eve. Just think of the merchandise you could buy and the big tournaments you could enter with that number of PKR points!

And the best news is that new players can get even more for nothing by using our PKR Bonus Codes when signing up.

Good luck – hope it’s a fantastic start to the New Year for you!

Eugene Katchalov won this year’s WPT Doyle Brunson classic in record time to pocket almost $2.5 million.

The American, who was chip leader going into the final table, picked up the winners cheque after just 53 hands to beat a record that Brunson himself had set in 2004 by winning the Legends of Poker WPT event.

In fact, it was a day for records as the 664 players who originally entered the tournament generated a prize pool of $9.6million dollars – an amount never previously seen outside of the WPT World Championship and the main event at the World Series of Poker.

It was Katchalov who benefited most from this huge prize pool though. Once the action got underway, he wasted no time in extending his cheap lead and hardly put a foot wrong all afternoon. He faced Ted Kearly in the heads-up with a chip stack almost six times the size of his opponent, and the writing was on the wall when Kearly lost a third of his chips only a couple of hands later.

Along with the winners cheque, Katchalov will also receive a seat in the WSOP main event next year.

PKR have re-introduced their Terminator tournaments, which really are a great new way to play poker.

Players get paid for every player that they knock out, while the price on their own head continues to rise: Terminator tournaments are all about taking other players down before they can do the same to you.

Have you got what it takes to survive?

Remember, no pity. No remorse. No fear.

For those of you wanting to try out PKR’s Terminator, be sure to use one of our bonus codes to ensure free cash when you sign up. That way, you’ve got nothing to lose when playing for the first time!

Almost $160m will be up for grabs when the 2008 WSOP kicks off next year at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The highlight of the gruelling 6 month tournament schedule will undoubtedly be “The Main Event” or to give it its full name, The $10,000 buy-in World Championship of No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em.

It won’t just be No Limit poker on show though. Seven-Card Stud, Limit Hold’Em, Omaha Hi-Low Split Eight or Better and Pot-Limit Omaha will all make an appearance as will a new Mixed Event. The Mixed Event will feature eight variations of poker: Limit and No-Limit Hold’Em; Omaha Hi-Low and Pot-Limit Omaha; Seven Card Stud; Razz; Seven Card Hi-Low Split; and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball and will also require players to stump up a $10,000 buy in.

Winners of all 55 events will be given a unique WSOP gold bracelet made exclusively by the luxury Swiss watchmaker CORUM.

For this weekend only, PKR are offering all new players free PKR points when they sign up.

New members of PKR will receive 1,500 points when they deposit $25 and an impressive 3,000 points when they deposit their first $50 or more.

What’s even better news is that visitors of this site can get even more for nothing by using one of our PKR bonus codes. That way you end up with free cash and a load of bonus points aswell!

What better time to play poker than over Christmas? And to get into the festive spirit, PKR have re-decorated their rooms with stunning 3D Christmas trees and other decorations. They’ve also added new costumes and clothes for you to wear over the festive period so you can really dress up your avatar!

And look out for a special Christmas bounty tournament tonight at 20.00 GMT. Six bounty players will have $100 on their head waiting for you to take them down.

Outspoken Australian Tony G won the inaugral Moscow Millions tournament and then donated his $205,000 first prize to a local orphanage.

The tournament had initially been in doubt after it lost its sponosor Full Tilt earlier on in the year, but things ran incredibly smoothly:

“The structure was better than the World Series of Poker main event,” said Tony G. “We had two dealers at the final table, so that the next hand was shuffled and ready to go, and we had tons of hands at the final table.”

The Moscow Millions attracted 53 players including Rusian Alex Kravchenko who had won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker this year. He finally finished in third place collecting $77,000 for his troubles.

The three time WSOP bracelet winner David “Chip” Reese passed away last night. He was 56.

Chip, who was widely accepted as the world’s greatest cash player, was accepted into hospital late yesterday evening with pneumonia symptoms. He was sent home later that night but passed away in his sleep.

The highlights of Reese’s career include bracelets in 1982 and 1978 for $5,000 limit stud and $1,000 stud split and the $50,000 WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006. He was held in such high esteem that Doyle Brunson practically begged him to write the chapter on stud for his best selling book “Super System”. The two went on to become close friends.

“I have lost one of my oldest and dearest friends today,” Brunson said. “He was one of the most unique individuals I have ever known, and poker has lost one of the greats today.”

Fellow author and close friend, Barry Greenstein has also played tribute to his regular partner at the “Big Game” with a very touching audio blog tribute at PokerRoad.com

Bounty Tournaments have arrived on PKR and are proving to be as popular as they are fun!

Played each Wednesday evening at 20.00 GMT, PKR give every player the chance to take on six bounty players for a shot at an instant $100 and a guaranteed $10,000 prize pool.

The only advice I can give is to register early as seats usually go quickly. Places start at just $20.