Home Game Internet Sign-up?

OnTheButton · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 03:43 PM

OK I hope someone out there can help me, or point me in the right direction.

Our weekly home games have become more and more popular. Our regulars are bringing friends, and our single 10 player table has become "standing room only" with people calling us to ask if anyone has busted out yet and is there a seat available during the game.

Every week I make a written list of the players that call me and want to reserve a seat. We have about 12 regulars, 4 semi-regulars and another 4 friends of regulars.

They call me, I write it down and when the table/list is full I have to start telling people that there is no room for them.

I want to get myself out of the loop. Come Friday night (we play on Saturday evenings) I'm getting 15-20 phone calls of people wanting to play. I almost feel like a radio DJ somedays, and should be saying, "Sorry you are caller #11, no prize for you!"

I'm hoping to automate this somehow via the internet.

Some sort of sign-up sheet, that I can link through my home page, and my players can log in (say like YahooGroups) and then sign themselves up and know how many seats are available, who is already playing, and that can NOT be tampered with, meaning no one can remove another person from the list to make room for themselves or their friend(s), but they CAN remove themselves if they chose to change their schedule.

I'm hoping there is already something like this exsisting out on the internet for groups and meetings, etc.

Can anyone help me get pointed in the right direction, or for that matter any talented web people here want to make a few bucks (or trade for designs) by whipping something like this up for me that I can upload to my site?

Did what I'm asking make sense or do I need to be more specific?

Spaceman Spiff · #2 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 04:14 PM

www.evite.com is your friend. Not sure about linking to your home page or anything like that, but it works great for me. You can limit the number of people allowed to attend and also allow or prevent the invitees to invite more people. It won't stop people from subverting the system and still bringing what I call "surprise guest stars", but if you make it clear that signing up through evite is the only valid way of saving a seat, it won't take long for them to catch on.

Lime · #3 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 05:19 PM

Use homepokertour.com

All you have to do is set up the tournament and then all members can rsvp for the game. Once the tables are full, the others who rsvp are put on a waiting list. All you have to do is check the site and you can see who is coming. Been working great for my games so far. Worth checking out.

ink_junkie · #4 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 05:26 PM

Like Spiff, I use evite. Working great for me thus far. You can set it up as a recurring invite, limit how many people can attend, have polls for what format (bount chip, 1K starting stack, 10k starting stack, etc...) They also have fun poker/card game templates you can use to create the invite, or you can design your own. I can send one of our current evites to you if you want to see how it works and what it looks like for the players receiving them.

WolfPack · #5 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 05:29 PM

I am going to be doing something similar for my homegame www.wolfpackpokerleague.com
just havent had time to code it yet.

SteveA · #6 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 10:08 PM

I see you tried homepokertour.com back in November.

HPT only supports tourneys right now, but I'll have ring game support done in a couple of weeks.

OnTheButton · #7 (**permalink**) 04-08-2006, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveA

I see you tried homepokertour.com back in November.

HPT only supports tourneys right now, but I'll have ring game support done in a couple of weeks.

Yes I did sign up for HPT...

And we do play 90% ring games.

In the meantime, I'm gonna try evite.com and try to get all the e-mail addresses tonight and give it a run for next week. I've got a basic set-up invite put together, and it looks pretty close to what I was looking for, but I'll need to see it actually run to evaluate it.

Thanks all for the suggestions, keep em coming!

Spaceman Spiff · #8 (**permalink**) 04-08-2006, 10:46 AM

Not sure if you figured it out or not, but the setting to limit attendees is kind of hidden in evite. I think it's under the 'guest list options' drop down.

Poboy · #9 (**permalink**) 04-08-2006, 10:53 AM

One of my other hobbies is autocrossing, and the car club running the events had an online pre-registration. I don't know how it's done, and the club unfortunately stopped doing their own pre-registration, but there is stuff out there like that. One place that has it is www.myautoevents.com but you'll have to register to get a look at the online form. Maybe you could e-mail them and find out where they got the program.