The deal
The Club House started with a deck, a table, and a spreadsheet nobody wanted to own.
It began as the tool one poker night needed and could not buy: a clock every seat could see, payouts nobody argued about, and a league table that did not live on one person’s laptop. This is how it grew from that table into the poker tournament software clubs run on.
Pre-flop
Every poker night ran on one person’s patience.
Before the software, the night ran on the host. A phone timer for the blinds, a napkin for the payouts, a spreadsheet for the league that only its owner could read. When the host was busy, the clock stopped. When the host was wrong, the argument started.
Poker is a game of clean rules and careful math. The tools around it were neither. That gap is where we started.
The flop
So we built the blind timer first, then everything the clock touched.
The first version did one thing: a blind timer on a screen every seat could see. That fixed the night, and it showed us the next problem, then the next. Structures needed building. Payouts needed calculating. Eliminations needed recording, so the leaderboard was right by the time the last hand was dealt.
Each release came from a real game and went back to one. Hosts told us what broke, and the fix shipped before their next event. That loop is still how we work.
The turn
What we believe about running a poker game.
The table comes first.
Software should be quiet at the table. If a host is looking at a screen instead of the players, we have failed.
The math is shown, never hidden.
Payouts, points, and structures are calculated in the open, so every player can check them and every host can defend them.
A home game deserves the same tools as a card room.
The free plan is not a trial. It runs a full tournament, start to finish, for as long as you want to use it.
Hosts write the roadmap.
We are a small team, and we read everything. Most of what we build was asked for by someone running a game.
The river
Today The Club House runs the whole poker night in one place.
Tournaments with timers and structures, seating, and payouts. Cash games with buy-ins and cash-outs tracked to the cent. Leagues that score every result and keep the standings live. A display for the TV on the wall, stats for every player, and achievements that give regulars something to chase.
It is used by home games, pub leagues, and poker clubs, in three languages, on whatever screen is already in the room. And it still starts with the same deck of cards.
Showdown
Your seat is open.
Start for free, invite your players, and run your next poker night on The Club House. No card required.
