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Atlanta
Poker Club Uses Poker
League Software for Points
Management
And the players rejoice!
Over
two years ago we started
a poker league in
Atlanta that held
no limit holdem tournaments
at sports bars and
restaurants.
Our idea was simple,
put on a high quality
'Vegas like' poker
tournament and keep
track of points over
the course of a season
and players would
come out to play.
We would sell our
service to local sports
bars and restaurants
the same way a trivia
or karoke company
does, bringing in
a crowd of people
who wouldn't be in
the establishment
otherwise.
The concept worked,
proved by the fact
that the poker league
we started is still
thriving today. Not
to mention the huge
success of organized
poker leagues all
over the country.
This isn't to say
that it has always
been easy and smooth
sailing. It has been
far, far from it.
We've learned quite
a few things along
the way, and one of
the things we learned
was that we needed
a better way to keep
track of points.
Using excel sucked.
We needed a database
driven solution that
was easy to use and
that displayed an
easy to read, dynamic
leaderboard and that
was flexible enough
to use a myriad of
scoring systems and
point distrubution
models.
We know Excel spreadsheets
can do the job, this
is completely true.
We kept track of points
in excel spread sheets
for nearly two years,
although we were looking
for a solution much
sooner.
Using excel to keep
track of and display
our leaderboards was
slightly better than
writing results down
on note paper, taking
a picture and uploading
the the picture to
the web as far as
ease of use and management.
Excel was simply a
a time consuming,
tedious, and painful
task to keep track
of points. Especially
when you are keeping
track of points for
multiple tournaments
each and every week.
There had to be a
better way to keep
track of our poker
league points and
we had to figure it
out fast. So we started
searching the web
looking for a poker
league leaderboard,
a league tally system,
some sort of score
board, league scoring
system, you name it
we googled it.
We kept coming up
pretty dry. There
simply wasn't anything
on the market that
suited our needs.
We needed a points
tally system that
accepted our
scoring system
and that was
flexible
enough to be able
to ould accept many
different scoring
systems and
schemes.
It needed to display
an individual score
board for each each
venue and also tally
a combined leaderboard
that points across
all venues.
We have indivual venue
points races as well
as a combined championship
tournament. One way
to qualify for the
combined championship
is by scoring in top
tier of overall players.
We needed a solution
that let us put tournament
results into an easy
to use form and hit
a button. Once that
button was hit, the
information is added
to the database and
a leaderboard is dynamically
generated with the
updated information.
The league setup needed
to be efficient and
easy to manage and
the individual tournament
results needed to
be easy to manipulate.
We also wanted the
abilitiy to give permission
to certain users to
access the administration
section and update
points themselves.
A system that could
easily fix points
errors, player name
mispellings, and easy
to update and modify.
It also needed to
be able to handle
adding new venues
as well as new seasons
and multiple seasons
running at the same
time.
Well... after a few
months of looking
and researching we
realized it simply
didn't exist.
We found a few sites
that claimed to offer
a functioning poker
league software, but
with a little bit
of close inspection
we quickly realized
that it didn't come
close to meeting our
needs.
So, we decided to
make it ourselves.
We partnered with
one of our poker league
players who is a guru
at writing object
oriented programs
in the latest software
utilizing the cutting
edge .NETt technology
to create a fully
functioning poker
league management
software.
The idea we developed
in our new partnership
was a poker league
management system
that we could offer
to other poker leagues
around the country
and even around the
world.
We knew that we needed
the service, and knew
others would as well.
So after a lot of
hard work development
and testing we are
proud to announce
our latest tool to
make running your
poker league easy.
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good luck in Vegas!
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- no more karoke,
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Southern Comfort
Season 7 Registration
Process Modified!
Starting in Season
7, players will now
sign up at the bar
as soon as they arrive
and register with
the bartender. You
will write your name
down on the list and
then 30 minutes prior
to start time you
will draw for your
seat from the tournament
director. Pictures
from Soco!
Please do not abuse
the system of stopping
by SoCo, signing up
and then leaving and
coming back 10 minutes
prior to tournament
start and getting
a seat. If this is
abused the system
will revert back to
the old way or abusers
will be moved to alternate
positions. Thanks
for understanding
everyone and we hope
you enjoy the change.
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