Thread: Farewell PKR!
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Old 06-24-2007, 05:49 PM
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Victoria Dornan is the head of 'Client Services'. She's the kind lady whom inforced multiple locks on my account, including blocked chat, removal from tournament rankings, forum access removed, withdrawal access removed, guestbook access blocked, blog access blocked.
...Everything pretty much.

And supposedly all because I said the C*** word during a game once.

Although the only one I received a formal email about was having my chat blocked for swearing. The following was inforced over the following weeks for questioning the RNG's integrity on the forum (before the ruling against it was even in place).


And to back up my other point, just because I said it's a fad, it doesn't mean it cannot be popular. That's exactly what a fad is.

Whereas other poker sites aim their advertising in gambling magazines, TV (poker) programs and the like, PKR took another route and aimed theirs more towards the general public, in lads magazines like Maxim, or websites popular with the youth of today, i.e. Myspace, faceback. Etc.
These people will generally all be kids and/or newcomers to poker under the legal age to gamble, hence why the Play tables are so popular.
And seriously, the site really only averages around 5000-6000 a day, and i think you'd find not even 1/4 of that are real money players. The sites dead in the early hours of the GMT time.

And yes, the graphical PKR thing really is a fad. If it was something that was going to be huge, you'd see a few copycat sites popping up...but are there? No. Because at the end of the day, a graphical poker site has many, many flaws. Slowness being the main...

Let me put PKR's 'popularity' further into perspective. Right now Full Tilt has over twenty full 10 seater $0.50/1 tables. PKR has two, both with 8 players sat at them. On the other hand, PKR has substantially more Play money players than Real Money, as opposed to Full Tilt's Real Money tables being the outright most popular.

Last edited by mamboboy : 06-24-2007 at 06:01 PM.
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