From January 5th to 8th, the World Poker Tour, or WPT as you know it, will head to Dublin, Ireland for its first event of 2012. The Citywest Hotel will serve as the stage for a €2,500 buy-in WPT event, which the independent online poker room PKRwill serve as the presenting sponsor of. Each entrant into WPT Dublin will start with 30,000 in chips and the price of poker will tick up every 60 minutes.

You can score your seat into the Irish WPT event through PKR in a relatively simple promotion that ends on December 14th. Between now and then, according to text found on PKR’s website, “We’re taking 20% from each WPT Dublin Nights prize pool and putting it toward fantastic $5,000 WPT Dublin Experience packages which you can win in a one-off variable stack freeroll on Sunday, December 18th.”

Not everyone starts with the same stack in the freeroll on December 18th, however. Instead, in order to qualify for the freeroll, you need to play in at least one WPT Dublin Nights tournament before December 14th. So, you still have a few days left to start or pad your stack. PKR officials explain, “For every tournament you play in this period, we will add 100 chips to your freeroll starting stack. There’s also up to 8,000 added bonus chips that you can grab when you play ten or more tournaments in the lead-up.”

The PKR prize package includes the WPT tournament’s €2,500 buy-in, five nights at the Citywest Hotel, a special PKR swag bag, and $250 to use for expenses.

Besides the Dublin Nights route, there are plenty of ways to qualify through PKR. Satellites begin at $2.90 and eventually feed players into a $270 final that takes place on Mondays at 19:15 GMT. One in 20 players in the Weekly Final will head to Ireland, where they’ll hope the luck of the Irish shines down upon them.

PKR also offers $1.10, $10.50, and $130 lotteries to send players to Dublin: “You don’t even need to be logged in to play our fantastic lotteries. Register at any level and you could win a seat through to the next Lottery Final satellite for your chance of winning a $5,000 package from only $1.10.” The WPT Lottery Final runs for its third and final time two days after Christmas and has a buy-in of $130.

PKR is a member of the PocketFives Partnersprogram and recently changed its exclusive offer to members of our community. Now, PKR is offering a $10 instant bankroll to anyone who signs up through PocketFives and amasses 10,000 play chips. You have 30 days to get your play chips, so this promotion is ideal for newcomers to the game. This is a no-deposit offer only, as depositing will make you ineligible for the free $10.

If you decide to make a deposit on PKR, you won’t be eligible for the $10 instant bankroll, but you’ll get one free month of PocketFives Trainingwith the sign-up fee waived, a $65 value, if you create your account through our links. Click here to get started. PocketFives Training offers the top MTT instruction on the Web from a fleet of brand name pros and has a two-day trial to get your feet wet.

PKR offers 100% up to $150 and 125% up to $500 deposit bonuses and has a unique 3D client that was one of the first of its kind. According to PokerScout, which monitors online poker room traffic, PKR is the 23rd largest site or network worldwide, with a seven-day running average of 670 real money ring game players. PKR also holds a French license for all you residents of France out there.

Learn more about WPT Dublin and PocketFives’ exclusive Ten for Ten offer by visiting PKR.