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Atlanta Poker Club Uses Poker League Software for Points Management

Manages points, league leaderboard, staff hours, payroll reports, tables & more.

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.

Visit Poker League Software to learn more . The Atlanta Poker Club uses a dynamic scoring system that awards a total number of points to each tournament based on how many players play. The league results are managed by the Poker League Points Manager.

Dynamic Scoring - More players, more points. The more players that play in an event determine how many points the event is worth. If you beat larger fields you win more points than winning smaller fields.

It leads to a very competitive points race both at the venue level as well as the overall level.

Visit the APC Leaderboard to see the current standings. You can select each individual venue for their private points races as well as look at 'all venues' for an overall league score for the current seasons. Past seasons are also availble for browsing.

Points are awarded to all final table finishers and to the final 2 tables if there are 30 or more players at your event.

The forumla for awarding points is: N^(1/2)*200

Get your own Dynamic League Leaderboard displayed on your website with this new Poker League Points tool.


% Awarded to Finish
Finish % of Points
1 30%
2 20%
3 10%
4 8%
5 6.5%
6 5%
7 4%
8 3%
9 2%
10 1.5%
11 1.4%
12 1.3%
13 1.2%
14 1.1%
15 1%
16 .9%
17 .8%
18 .7%
19 .6%
20 .5%
Points Races
Your Rank Quality for
Top 10 / Venue Venue Championship
Top 50 Overall Season Championship
Last Chance Qualifying Last Week After Season Ends (no points kept)

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