February 22, 2018
An advisory from PokerStars reminds customers of the now defunct PKR poker room to submit their claims by the 28 February 2018 offer expiry deadline. InfoPowa readers will recall PokerStars stepping in when PKR went under last year with an offer to reimburse account credits as a goodwill gesture (see previous InfoPowa reports). PokerStars offered to reimburse customer’s ‘dollar-for-dollar’ with […]
July 7, 2017
The sudden financial failure of online poker veteran site PKR earlier this year left an estimated 60,000 players “short changed”, according to a press statement from rival Pokerstars Thursday…and the market leader has decided following an agreement with PKR’s Administrator on a bold new initiative making players’ PKR balances available dollar-for-dollar in PokerStars accounts…with no […]
May 13, 2017
RSM Restructuring Advisory, the UK firm appointed by the courts to administer the affairs of failed online poker operator PKR (see previous reports) has issued a statement laying out its priorities. Speaking for the company, administrator David Taylor said that in regard to PKR.com’s parent companies, PKR Ltd and PKR Technologies Ltd, RSM’s first priority […]
May 12, 2017
Microgaming has continued to keep players in the picture on the financial difficulties being experienced by the failing PKR online poker operation, advising Friday that joint administrators have been appointed. The Microgaming advisory reads: “Microgaming can confirm that David R Taylor and Matthew R M Wild of RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP were appointed Joint Administrators […]
February 6, 2016
Online poker operator PKR is making significant changes under the leadership of Chris Welch, the first of which will see PKR move to the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) later this month and debut a revamped poker loyalty scheme renamed the PKR Poker VIP Club. Players will be able to choose a poker alias which can […]
November 13, 2015
Online poker company PKR has made four appointments across its CRM, Payments and affiliate sectors. Stephan Clavel will head PKR’s CRM team. He joins the company from easyProperty prior to which he served at bwin.party as CRM manager under the leadership of Chris Welch who now serves as chief executive officer for PKR. PKR also […]
September 2, 2015
The newly appointed CEO at online poker operator PKR, Chris Welch, has wasted no time in structuring his senior management team, announcing the appointnents of Mike Ellis as chief technical officer and Tony Browne as chief financial officer. Ellis is a 16-year veteran who has held management posts at William Hill, Betfred and lately Youwin, […]
June 19, 2015
Malcolm Graham’s replacement as CEO of online poker provider PKR has been announced as Neil Alexander, a senior management industry veteran who has previously worked for Sportingbet and Tipp24. His appointment coincides with a decision by the Board to close PKR’s dedicated French site on the 22 July in order to focus on its other […]
May 15, 2015
Online poker operator PKR is to lose its second senior executive this year when CEO Malcolm Graham departs to take up a vice president appointment with mobile platform developer GameTech…in February PKR’s chief operating officer, Leon Walters, left the company (see previous report). Like Walters, Graham was one of the earliest employees of PKR, which […]
October 15, 2014
Online poker operator PKR has released its latest poker client upgrade providing a multitude of new features. “Our aim with PKR 3.0 was to make this quite complicated piece of poker software easier to use, though we couldn’t help but add a few design features to keep our visual cutting edge!”, the company said in […]