Why I built Poker Spot

Four apps and a spreadsheet

Before this app existed, my poker life was scattered across half a dozen places. Session results went into a spreadsheet I stopped updating every time I got home tired. Interesting hands went into my phone's notes app, written badly enough that a week later I could not reconstruct the spot. Study meant a separate trainer with a separate subscription. And when I actually wanted to talk about a hand, that meant a group chat, or a forum, or shouting into a social feed built for everything except poker.

None of those things were bad on their own. The problem was the gaps between them. The hand you want to study is the hand from the session you just logged, and the hand you want to show your friends is that same hand, and nothing connected any of it. So the tracking stopped, the studying stopped, and the only part that survived was scrolling.

Poker Spot is my attempt to put those three things in one place: track the session, study the hand it produced, and talk about it with people who play. One app, one login, no bouncing.

Easy to use, on purpose

Most trackers are built for someone who already loves data entry. I wanted the opposite: logging a session should take fifteen seconds at the table, and the app should do the math for you afterward. Net profit, win rate, dollars per hour, results by venue and by stake, a bankroll ledger that includes your deposits and withdrawals so the number you see is your real number.

Same idea for study. You should be able to rebuild a hand quickly, replay it, clip it to the exact decision point, and post it. If a feature takes a tutorial to use, it is not finished yet.

The free version should be one you are happy with

A tracker is only useful if you reach for it every single session, and nobody does that with an app that asks for money at the door. So the free tier saves unlimited sessions and unlimited hands. Nothing you log is ever thrown away or held hostage. Your five most recent sessions and ten most recent hands stay open for study, live session tracking is completely ungated, and the whole social side, the feed, the follows, and a club of your own, is there for everyone.

That is not a trial version. It is the app. Somebody who never pays me a cent should still walk away with a real tracker, a real study tool, and a real place to talk about hands, and should feel like they got something good rather than a demo with the good parts greyed out.

Training is the one part that costs real money every time it runs, so it is the one part with a daily cap: fifteen reps a day across the drills and the simulator. Fifteen is not a teaser number. It is close to a real study session, and fifteen good reps a day will genuinely make you better.

Also deliberately absent: ads, third-party trackers, and anything that sells your data. Your sessions and hands are yours, and nothing is public unless you decide to post it.

Hands worth sharing

Exporting a hand is free too, and it is the feature I most wanted to exist. I was always inspired by the hand rundowns you see on YouTube, someone walking through a spot street by street until you can see it the way they saw it. Nobody has an editor for the hand they played last Tuesday, so that hand ends up as a rough scribble in a group chat that loses half the detail, and everyone reading it has to rebuild the spot in their head before they can even have an opinion on it.

So a logged hand comes back out as something readable. A replay video deals the board one street at a time with the real action on it, and a still hand card covers the times a video is overkill. Both carry the Poker Spot label, which is the point: if a hand of yours travels, whoever sees it should be able to tell where it came from.

Built for home games, not just grinders

The part I most wanted for myself was the club. Every account can create a private club, open or password-protected, with a members-only feed, a weekly leaderboard, and admin roles for whoever helps you run it.

That is enough to run a home game: who is in this week, the hand from last Thursday that everyone is still arguing about, the running leaderboard, the trash talk. It is also enough for a study group, which is really the same thing with fewer chips on the table.

For pros: a room of your own

If poker is your job, a club works as your room. Share the hands you played to your fans, your students, or the backers staking your action, with the replay and the numbers attached instead of a screenshot and a paragraph. Verified badges mark official rooms and trusted members, so people know it is really you.

It is a better home for that content than a general-purpose social feed, because the audience is already there for poker and the hand itself is a first-class object, not an image.

An app for everyone who plays

The person logging their first $1/$2 session and the person grinding full time want the same three things: to know how they are actually running, to get better at the spots they keep misplaying, and to talk about it with people who care. The difference between them is depth, not kind. So there is one app rather than a casual one and a serious one, and nobody using it is treated as a lead waiting to be converted. If you play once a month in somebody's kitchen, this was built for you too.

Where things stand

Poker Spot is in its testing phase right now, with launch close behind. It is an independent app, built and run by one poker player rather than a studio, which means it moves fast, it will have rough edges, and the fastest way to change it is to tell me. Every email to Administrator@pokerspot.gg reaches me directly, and I read all of them.

If you want to see the details: the feature list, the support page, the privacy policy, and the free tools that need no account at all, including the odds calculator, the preflop charts, and the hand rankings.