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Just curious as to what everyone uses to keep track of their poker games that are taking place offline (not online). Whether people use any sort of tournament manager or similar for tracking stats, handling leaderboards and generally taking care of invites and such? thanks, Daryl |
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Im not aware of any sites that offer a tournament manager, but I have used that feature in DD Poker (the older free trial version allowed unlimited use of this feature). If you are interested, I am about 1/2 way through coding just such an app. Predefined blind structure, or pre-calculated based on starting stacks. Or you can enter your own custom structure. Level time input, when/how long breaks are. Predefined or user defined payout structure. No stats tracking though, not quite sure of what stats you would like to track during a tournament? Although 1 thing I have recently decided to add (just for more versatility) is to cater for rebuy/addon tourneys. So there is prize-pool to track... (I dont host rebuys) By invites, Id think either phone, bulk SMS or email, depending on the size of the tournament you are hosting, in my case they are usually 8-12 player 'SnG' type tourneys. For cash games I think good old pen and paper is best to keep track of (re)buyins of each player. ANd only cos there can be some fair drinking during the game, and people often wish to know how much there are up/down. Also if there are discrepencies come cashout time with how much cash there is held by the host. Actually, making this into a web application is not a bad idea. I am coding it in .NET (C#) anyway, so all the logic will be done, and I just have to implement an ASP interface. Thanks! |
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I haven't used any of them personally, but there are a few such pieces of software listed here. Search the page for "tournament". |
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The Tournament Director 2, AINEC! http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/ I have been using it for 4 years to run a fairly large home poker league (bi-weekly games, point system). It's very customizable. I see it used in casinos all the time. Doesn't do invites - it's just for the tournaments/league. We actually run our league through a Facebook group now. That makes it easy to handle invites and RSVPs (you can email RSVPs to people who aren't on FB). http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=29775720636 If you take a look at the pictures and group events you can see the outputs from the program. |
How does this question get upvoted but not answered? (was upvoted before I answered obv)
I upvoted it since it was a good question, but I didn't have an answer.