PKR Review
Overview
PKR.com offer a truly unique gaming experience featuring advanced graphics, unbeatable game-play and a wealth of community features.
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General Information
PKR is a new way to play online poker. Its 3D poker rooms provide realistic game play that cannot be achieved by any other website at this time. PKR offers Texas Hold’em and Omaha games with limit, no-limit and pot-limit variants, sit-and-go tournaments, multi-table tournaments and cash games. PKR has a fully interactive website and features which are unique to them. Launched in 2003 PKR registered its 1 millionth customer in September 2007, its fast growth surely down to the innovative approach they have taken to online poker.
Customer Service
PKR offer 24/7 customer service to help with any queries or problems you may have. Emails are answered within 24 hours of being received and usually to a good standard. Emails are sent using a simple contact form. Alternatively you can opt for the live web chat, simply enter your name, your poker alias, tell them whether you are a ‘play-money’ or ‘real-money’ player and give them your email address and you will be connected to a customer services representative. Usually you are chatting within five minutes of filling out the live chat query form. You are informed of how many people are in front of you in the queue and given an estimated duration of your wait.
The PKR.com help section also features a user guide and FAQs for account, gaming and technical queries. (Due to the advanced nature of the PKR program not all computers will run the program although there is the option to run PKR for a lower spec PC).
There is no telephone support for PKR.
Promotions and Incentives
PKR have a range of first time deposit bonuses to suit most people’s needs. There is a 100% deposit match up to a maximum of $600 which unlike other websites is not actually that hard to release. This is done by playing hands or registering for tournaments and gaining PKR points. A player playing for 2 hours a day at a $50 cash table should see the bonus released within a week. PKR also have the biggest online poker bonus available with a massive 100% deposit match up to a maximum of $2000, to take advatage of this offer you must deposit $1000 when joining PKR and enter our exlusive promotion code: bc001. You do have to email PKR to take advantage of this offer.
From time to time PKR will offer you a ‘reload bonus’. This works in a similar fashion to the original sign-up bonus. It’s nice to think that PKR look after both new and existing customers for the lifetime of account activity!
PKR’s loyalty program works by players accumulating PKR points for playing in raked hands and buying into tournaments. These points can be spent in the merchandise shop on products such as clothing and poker literature to your very own PKR poker chips and poker table. PKR points can also be spent on tournament tickets so you avoid the entrance fee to specific tournaments. Earn enough and you can buy into the online final for a European Poker Tour Event.
Security
All licensing and regulations are listed on the website. PKR Tech Ltd provides the software for PKR.com and is currently the only online poker firm to be licensed by the UK government. All information regarding how the cards are dealt, account security, fair play rules, data protection and privacy and underage gambling are given on the FAQ section of the PKR website.
Login to PKR.com is done using your username and password.
Banking
PKR offers a variety of ways to deposit money into your account. They accept Neteller, Click2Pay, Firepay, Visa, Visa Delta, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro, Switch, Solo and MoneyBookers. Minimum withdrawal is $20 if your account balance is over $20. PKR aim to process your withdrawal within 48 hours, it may then take an extra 3 to 5 days to appear on your bank statement. If you choose to withdraw your money in the form of a check it will be delivered within 15 business days. PKR use industry standard SSL encryption processes to protect your transactions.
Community Features
Forum:
The PKR website is packed with activities for the PKR player. There is an active forum used by many of the players and covers many different topics. Particularly useful are the beginner’s questions; whether you ask your own question or help somebody else by answering a question, there is always a wide variety of good quality poker chat. Other forums include sections for cash games and tournament play and a place to talk about any promotions they might have on. If you dare you can visit the dreaded ‘bad beat’ forum to hear about peoples horrible luck, maybe if you read about it enough it won’t happen to you!
Player Ranking:
If you are a tournament player you will love the ranking system at PKR. For both sit-and-go tournaments and multi-table tournaments they track yours and everybody else’s results so you can see how you compare with the other PKR players. There is a yearly table and a monthly leader board with cash prizes for the top 10 players at the end of each month plus an exclusive tournament for the top 100. It’s nice to see all your hard work recognized by somebody other than yourself and also gives you an added incentive to try your hardest in each tournament you play. Details of how the leader board points are calculated are shown on the website.
PKR Cast:
PKR offer a pod-cast with chat and debate about poker. It’s all archived on the website and is a good listen while you are playing. It also offers the chance to email your poker questions and possibly win a heads up match against one of PKR’s poker professionals. The pod-cast is a great opportunity to hear people talking intelligently about poker which helps improve your own game. It is also available to non-PKR players.
My PKR:
Here you can view a summary of your account. View your balance, your PKR points (bonus scheme), rankings, notable tournament results and edit your profile. Every PKR profile features a blog. Use this to tell the world how you are feeling, what you had for breakfast or what tactics you have been using in your recent tournament victories.
Usability
PKR has a clear and easy to use poker lobby, far too often on other sites the lobby becomes confused and difficult to navigate but PKR use a simple choice between cash games, sit-and-go and multi-table tournaments, with the further choices of Hold’em or Omaha poker.
Once in the game the software is easy to use. It is simple to bet and raise and more importantly to choose the amount you wish to bet and raise, a slider bar is used to up your bet with the option of betting the amount in the pot already or betting all your chips at once with two separate buttons.
A feature currently unique to PKR is that you only see your cards when they are dealt; they are not visible all the way through the hand. This may sound like an annoyance but can be used to your own advantage. Imagine this, a hand is dealt and is not raised pre flop. You, being a clever and conscientious player have remembered your two cards. Now the flop comes down to the same suit (let’s say diamonds). 99% of the time if you look at your opponents you would see them take a second look at their cards to check whether one of them was a diamond! You generally will remember your cards if they are of the same suit, the fact that your opponents are looking at their cards probably means they do not have two diamonds in their hand. This is an example of how PKR differs to other poker rooms. They have developed an entirely new online experience here.
Another example of PKR’s difference to other poker rooms is the way the characters can emote at the table! You can yawn, laugh, cry, punch the air, call other players a chicken and generally be a nuisance! Note: You can choose to ignore players here who you deem to be over using the emote feature.
These unique aspects to the game play single out PKR above the rest. It is an engrossing and fun way to play your online poker and one that in my opinion ranks up there with the best. Enjoy.





