I'm Johan. I co‑founded and help run Hudikpoker, a poker club in Sweden, and I still play in our own tournaments most weeks — which is the short version of why pkrclub exists at all.
Everything I write here comes from the director's chair. The problems in these articles aren't researched abstractions; they're the ones I actually hit running club nights — getting up mid‑hand to bust a player, rebuilding the league table in a spreadsheet, not knowing until the door opened whether enough people would turn up to run a game. I started automating bits of our club's setup, it kept growing, and at some point it became the thing I'm building now.
My background is product, with enough of a web‑development one to be dangerous on my own. I'm a member of the Swedish Poker Federation, and most of what I know about running tournaments I learned the way every club organiser does — by doing it, getting it wrong, and fixing it for next time.
So when an article here says "I'd gently suggest this isn't actually part of the job," it's because I spent years assuming it was. The writing is plain and first‑hand on purpose. If something I've written doesn't match your experience of running a club, I'd rather hear it than not — it's how the product gets better too.
— Johan, founder of pkrclub
pkrclub is poker tournament software for clubs — a live clock, seating, payouts and accounting in one place, built by someone who runs club nights himself. It's in active development, with early access opening to clubs and players soon.
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