A new promotion known as Catch Me If You Can is being run by Power Poker, and it is said to be the world’s first ever hunter-gets-hunted promotion.
Poker lovers everywhere are being given the opportunity to get personal with the players closest to their own performance on the website. And there are thousands of dollars at stake. In fact, there is a $500 bounty on whoever manages to beat Ziimund!
If you want to qualify for the Catch Me If You Can promotion, you will need to do the following 3 things;
-Catch the player in front of you by getting more Frequent Player Points than he does this month.
- Have at least as many Frequent Player Points this month as you did last month.
- And avoid being caught by the player who is chasing you!
At the end of the month, every player than qualifies will then be awarded entry into the Catch Me If You Can tournament. Positions 1 through to 10 in the tournament share a $2,000 prize pool pot!
So what are you waiting for, join Power Poker today and start earning those Freqent Player Points! Best of all, if you sign up through rakebackpoker.com you can always rest assured you are getting the best rakeback deal around!

A quick reminder that players on Power Poker can now win up to $12,000 in prizes every single week with their weekly Gold Card Race. Players who earn Gold Cads throughout their time playing on Power Poker will also earn Gold Card Race ‘miles’. You can check the leaderboard on their website to see just how many miles you have earned.
The top 50 players of each week will win cash prizes! The races run weekly from Tuesday 00:00 GMT to Monday 23:59 GMT.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, why not sign up to Power Poker today and start earning your miles!
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Karl Fenton wins PKR Live II

Virtual reality became reality in London last weekend when the final of PKR Live II reached a final at London’s famous poker club –Loose Cannon. 150 players descended on the nation’s capital for PKR Live II, an excellent value event that saw players compete in three events for their money including a freeroll on Sunday.

Karl ‘discomonkey’ Fenton, 23 years old, was the eventual winner of the $75,000 main event by defeating his long time friend Simon Wing heads up for the title and the $20,000 first prize. All the players in attendance were raving about the weekend of poker fun and it left Loose Cannon manager Roy Houghton proclaiming, “I have been in the poker world for 40 years, and have yet to meet a friendlier crowd than the people who came to the Loose Cannon over the weekend.”

The English Poker Open 2009

Lucky PKR Rakeback players will be able to compete in a number of freerolls as part of Rake the Rake’ssponsorship of the English Poker open taking place at Dusk till Dawn poker club in Nottingham.

The EPO already has a $1 million guarantee prize pool attached to it and so is sure to attract a lot of attention from the world´s top players as a warm up to the WSOP* Europe 2009. Each $7,000 package includes the $5,000 + $300 buy-in and $1,700 for accommodation and transport costs.

Below there are 11 rooms to qualify through – you can qualify for as many of the freerolls as you like, and qualification can be as simple as playing 1 raked hand or earning 1 point at any of the rooms!

PKR – 2 x $7,000 Packages
Freeroll Date: 14th June 2009
Qualification:
• New Players: Any new player signing up and raking $1 at PKR Poker between 1st April and midnight 31st May 2009
• Existing players: Any existing player raking $400 or more at PKR Poker between 1st April and midnight 31st May 2009

Following the massive success of PKR’s first live event, PKR Live II promises to be even better. Taking place at London’s Loose Cannon Club from 17 to 19 April, the event will showcase 3 fantastic tournaments as well as some great events away from the table.

The event will allow their loyal online players to meet each other and put a face to online usernames who have won and lost their money! Last year the Main Event winner, Escalope, walked away with a nice cheque for $20,000 after playing his way through a vast crowd of 149 other players.

In order to enter tournament players will first need to register with PKR.com and then play through one of their daily satellite tournaments. PKR are often multiple qualifying packages allowing users of all types a chance to enter.

Tournament Structure:

Tournament 1 – Friday Warm Up -$100 Buy In – 17/04/09 – Starts 8pm

Tournament 2 – Main Event 18 -$500 Buy In– 19/04/09 – Starts 1pm

Tournament 3 – $10,000 Sunday Bounty freeroll -19/04/09 – Starts 2pm – Exclusive to main event players