Tournament software for poker clubs and leagues

What a poker club needs

A poker club or league needs more than a clock: volunteers who take turns running games, registrations to keep track of, a league that lasts all year, standings nobody can argue with, and a cash desk the treasurer can account for.

• Volunteer directors who take turns: each director is invited by email and runs games from their own account.
• Registration without retyping: members are entered once, then picked from the list for every tournament. Registration from a Wix website is planned.
• A season-long league: every tournament of the season is attached to the league, which is recalculated after each one.
• Standings nobody can argue with: three published points systems, best-results-only if you choose, tie-breakers set in advance.
• A cash desk to account for: every payment is recorded; the end-of-night cash-up is itemised.
• The club’s own hardware: a web browser is enough; the clock shows on a TV and keeps running without internet.

Volunteers who take turns

In MyPokerCaptain, every volunteer who runs a tournament has their own account, linked to the club. The club owner invites directors by email, and the invitation link is valid for seven days. Each director then finds the club’s tournaments, players and history, whoever ran the previous night. The plan does not limit the number of accounts.

To prepare the structure for a club night, the blind structure calculator is free and needs no account.

Registration without retyping

Club players are entered once, in the club’s member list: name, nickname, membership number and, if you like, an email address. They don’t need an account. When creating a tournament, the director ticks the members who are expected and they are registered in advance. Anyone else, member or guest, is added on arrival.

The same list recognises each player from one tournament to the next: it keeps the season standings together, and tournament reports go to its email addresses (Casino plan).

Online registration from the club’s Wix website is planned and not available yet: the Registration from Wix page explains how it will work and lets you ask to be notified.

A league that lasts all year

A MyPokerCaptain league groups the season’s tournaments as events and turns them into standings, recalculated after every tournament. It has a name, a season, start and final dates, the number of planned events, the number of players who qualify for the final, and a prize fund. The league card shows where the season stands: events played out of events planned, players ranked.

Leagues need the Club plan. To pick a points system and settle the season’s rules before the first event, read our guide How to run a poker league.

Standings every player can check

The standings follow a published points system: the formula is shown in the app, so any player can redo the maths. There are three systems, and a league applies one of them to all its events:

• club points: the top third of the field scores, and a big tournament weighs more than a small one;
• festival points: the top 15% of the field scores, designed for fields of several hundred players;
• Sit & Go points: a fixed points table for single-table tournaments of six to nine players.

The league can count only each player’s best events. On equal points, the number of wins breaks the tie, then the best finish. A player who re-enters the same tournament counts once, with their best finish.

A cash desk the treasurer can account for

Every payment is recorded: buy-in, rebuy, add-on. The end-of-night cash-up is itemised, and the PDF report keeps a record of what was collected — what a treasurer needs to show the committee.

The club’s own hardware is enough

An old laptop and a TV are all you need: MyPokerCaptain runs in the browser, and the display screen shows on a TV connected over HDMI or on a smart TV. Your sponsors’ logos appear under the clock. If the venue Wi-Fi drops, the clock, eliminations and cash desk keep working on the director’s device, which reopens even without a network; with the Casino plan, the TV plugged into it follows the clock without internet.

From club nights to events

A club that runs a festival or a multi-day tournament moves up to the Casino plan (€47.99 per month): Day 1 flights, bag & tag, Day 2 seat draw, QR code player view and PDF reports emailed to players.