Club website, game sign-ups, a host console and a screen for the room. The whole evening, from announcement to season standings, without group chats, spreadsheets or a stopwatch.
At a sport poker club, the evening rests on the host. Sign-ups happen in a group chat, arrivals go into a notebook, blinds are timed with a stopwatch, and season points get tallied in a spreadsheet late at night. One wrong cell, and a month later nobody remembers who’s in what place.
I wanted to put all of that into one system that’s easy to use right at the table. For players — from a phone, for the host — with one hand, for the room — on a TV. Meanwhile the owner sees money, debts and ratings without counting anything by hand.
The club in the demo is made up, but everything works for real. Every two hours a simulator with bots runs a full game: sign-ups, seating, knockouts, payments and results. Drop by any time and some game will be in progress. In the sandbox you can try being the host or the owner yourself.
Checking a player in, selling a re-entry, recording a knockout — every frequent action takes no more than three taps. A knockout is confirmed with a swipe so it can't happen by accident.
Trade-off: the phone only handles short tasks. Payments, leagues and finishing the game stay on the computer.
If the room loses connection, the host's phone keeps knockouts and table moves and sends them once it's back online. Tapping twice won't create a second knockout.
Trade-off: you can't start or pause the clock offline. Game time runs on the server, otherwise the screens would drift apart.
The blind level isn't ticking in a browser — it's calculated from the start time and pauses. Restart the laptop or let the phone die, and the TV still shows the right time.
Trade-off: you can't skip a level or edit blinds mid-game. That was left out of the first version on purpose.
Prices, season rules and bonuses are locked in at the moment of the game. A result can only be fixed with a correction and a reason, and it stays in the log.
Trade-off: there's no "just change the number" — every fix takes a couple of extra clicks and an explanation.
*The test server had 2 cores and 1 GB of RAM. Two 90-second runs were made; the worse result is shown.
Tell me how your evenings work — poker, mafia, board games or quizzes. I'll tell you what fits, how long it takes and what it costs.
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