What everyday poker headaches would you like to disappear?
What everyday poker headaches would you like to disappear?

What everyday poker headaches would you like to disappear?

Hey everyone—long-time lurker here. I fell in love with poker at university when I was punting far beyond my means in a private 5/5 PLO dealer's choice game.

These days the professional-poker dream has settled into something more realistic: a few nightly MTTs on ACR and PartyPoker, plus the occasional 1/3 no-limit session at London casinos, all balanced around a nine-to-five career as a software developer.

I’m between jobs at the moment, which means I finally have time to build a side project.
I would love to understand the problems the community deals with away from the felt. Especially if they are addressable by software.

For example, what is the single most annoying off-table task you have to handle as a recreational or semi-serious player? Is it tracking results and hand histories, finding soft private games, or studying GTO spots without facing complicated solver menus? Or is it something entirely different that no tool has bothered to address?

Are there any ideas that you guys have that spring to mind? So far I’ve heard people say they want more accessible solvers (simple UI/UX) and bot/RTA detection.

Feel free to shit on these ideas, but would love some guidance on what members of the online and live poker community would be interested in. If the thread surfaces something useful, I’ll share the early prototype with this forum first.

15 July 2025 at 09:52 AM
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A lot of “off-table pain” is basically admin + fragmented data. If I could delete a few everyday headaches, it’d be these:

  • One clean results ledger across online + live. Having ACR/Party/live sessions split across apps/spreadsheets is brutal. The killer feature isn’t fancy graphs — it’s fast entry + trustworthy totals: buy-ins, rebuys/add-ons, tips, travel, swaps, staking %, and a timeline you can audit later.
  • Hand history access + portability that doesn’t suck. Between different formats, missing HHs, weird imports, and partial hands, it’s hard to keep a “single source of truth.” An MVP that standardizes HHs, detects duplicates, and flags gaps would help a ton (even before any advanced analysis).
  • “Did I actually play well?” without a 3-hour solver session. Rec/semiserious players don’t need a solver UI — they need a study pipeline: auto-tag common spots (BTN vs BB SRP, 3bet pots, river checks, etc.), surface 5–10 biggest leaks by frequency/EV proxy, and link to simple drills. Think “coach-style homework” more than “solver-style menus.”
  • MTT workflow friction. Schedules are scattered, late-reg windows are easy to miss, and sessions run long. A tool that pulls your planned schedule into one place, estimates end times, tracks volume vs bankroll rules, and reminds you about breaks/registration would get daily use.
  • Live session note-taking that’s actually usable mid-session. Quick tags for players (without turning into a phone zombie), seat changes, and “hands to review later.” Bonus points if it’s designed for one-handed input and works offline.
  • Support/disconnect evidence packs. Every player has had “client crashed / hand didn’t post / tournament paused” moments. A simple way to capture timestamps, table/tourney IDs, screenshots, and auto-generate a clean report would save time and sanity.

If you want a high-impact MVP: build a data layer first (results + HH normalization + export), then add “smart” features on top. Also: privacy matters — local-first storage or very clear controls will be a big trust differentiator.

Happy to share more detailed requirements if you pick one direction (results tracker vs HH pipeline vs study/drills).


For me, the biggest everyday headache is how fragmented everything is once you play across multiple sites (and then add live on top). Results, tournament entries/rebuys, swaps/stakes, notes, hand histories, screenshots, “what actually happened” in a dispute, it all ends up scattered across a tracker, a spreadsheet, a notes app, and random folders. The annoying part isn’t a lack of charts; it’s that the data isn’t reliable or easy to audit later.

If someone built a “boring but perfect” pipeline that (1) ingests hands/results from multiple rooms, (2) normalizes them into one consistent format, (3) flags missing/duplicate hands and weird edge cases, and (4) lets you quickly tag a few hands to review later with a clean share link/export, I’d use it constantly. Once that foundation exists, the “fun” layer is obvious: simple study prompts (“you faced a river check-raise in a 3bet pot 27 times this month: here are the 10 biggest pots”) and lightweight drills without a solver UI.

Bot/RTA detection is sexy but hard to ship credibly. The unsexy stuff (reliable import, reconciliation, and an actually pleasant review workflow) would immediately remove daily friction for a ton of recs and semi-serious players.

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