Next Up Poker

Platform for local poker rooms to manage their website and games for members.

The problem

Local poker rooms run on clipboards, group texts, and a whiteboard for the waitlist. Seating disputes, missed renewals, players calling to ask whether a game’s running. The software built for big card rooms is overkill and priced for casinos, not a membership club run by one or two people.

What I built

Next Up Poker puts the whole operation in one place: cash games and tournaments scheduled side by side, a first-come waitlist with SMS alerts when a seat opens, a tournament clock that runs locally so a Wi-Fi drop doesn’t kill the game, membership and dues tracking, hourly time tracking for no-rake rooms, and a built-in website where players see live game status and register online. Billing runs through Stripe. It’s live, with rooms paying for it.

What it demonstrates

Not every build needs to be an AI product. Sometimes the right answer is solid, unglamorous engineering pointed at a real problem, with a little fun along the way.