Home game manager
I'm looking for something to help manage my private games. I'm currently using a combination of spreadsheets and group chats to schedule games and keep track of invites and players. I'm finding this approach tiring and annoying.
How do you organize and manage your games?
Can any of you recommend tools or apps to help out?
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Track The Stack has been good for our league. Its a new tool that is still adding features, but very solid so far. www.trackthestack.app
Give our app a try club-PKR
Been through the exact same spreadsheet hell. Group chats for scheduling are a nightmare — half the players don't respond until the day before and you have no idea if you have enough people.
We run our games through suckingout.com now — handles scheduling, RSVPs, player tracking, and league standings all in one place. Specifically built for home games and private leagues rather than trying to adapt some generic event tool. Worth checking out alongside the others mentioned here.
amazing how many bots showed up for this one
lol bots? Speak for yourself sir :P
I'm looking for something to help manage my private games. I'm currently using a combination of spreadsheets and group chats to schedule games and keep track of invites and players. I'm finding this approach tiring and annoying.
How do you organize and manage your games?
Can any of you recommend tools or apps to help out?
Not a bot here, I promise! �� I completely agree that managing spreadsheets and chasing RSVPs is a nightmare.
I actually built a browser-based tool (LevelUp.Poker) for my own home game to handle blind timers, check-ins, and leaderboards specifically so players wouldn't have to download anything. I won't drop a link so I don't trigger the spam filters, but if you're still looking for a solution, let me know and I can shoot you a private message with it so you can test it out.
You're not going to be able to send PMs yet, with your account this new. You can go ahead and post a link, or, if the spam filter doesn't allow that, the keywords to google. Is it this? If so, the part I don't like is lifetime stats. People who "swear I am up lifetime" are the core of the poker economy. Don't convince them they are wrong.
You're not going to be able to send PMs yet, with your account this new. You can go ahead and post a link, or, if the spam filter doesn't allow that, the keywords to google. Is it this? If so, the part I don't like is lifetime stats. People who "swear I am up lifetime" are the core of the poker economy. Don't convince them they are wrong.
Thanks for the heads-up on the PM restrictions, Garick, and I really appreciate the green light to drop the link! It is indeed LevelUp.Poker.
Your point about the poker economy running on beautiful delusion is 100% spot-on. In fact, your feedback hit so close to home that I just went ahead and completely removed that exact phrase ("I swear I'm up lifetime...") from the landing page. You’re totally right—shattering that illusion with a cold, hard public audit on game night is a fast way to make casual players stop showing up, which ultimately kills the host's game.
To protect the ecosystem, the default public dashboard focuses strictly on a Points-based League Leaderboard (attendance, final tables, knockouts) rather than public financial profit/loss. If a host chooses to track exact buy-ins, that data is kept completely private to each individual player's private view.
Thanks for saving me from a massive marketing mistake right out of the gate! If anyone else runs a game and wants to throw some more brutal feedback my way, I'd love to hear it.
