I was at the ranch a couple weeks ago and some buddies came down to hang out. We had a deck of cards and wanted to play hold'em but only had enough chips for 4 of us. We wound up using Jenga blocks as $1 chips to make it work. I find myself in this situation at least a couple times a year. Sometimes no chips around at all, especially on vacation or visiting family. I came home and made this site that I think should have already existed but really doesn't without logins, signups, a bunch of extra distractions and actually works. Basically you just setup a room in 2 clicks, your buddies enter the room code or scan the qr code, you buy in (Venmo someone if you want to play a friendly cash game as there's no money exchanged in the app), bet, claim the pot if you won, it'll keep track of your balance and the pot and show all actions on the live feed! The bet claiming feature is cool someone claims it and then one other player has to confirm it for it to be awarded. When the game is over, the person you venmo'd just venmo's back the players whatever their balance is! You get the point... iNeedPokerChips.com

I've got a career outside of web development and I do this and other projects like this as a hobby but I'd like to try and see if I can make like $20 a month just to cover server cost, domain, whatever. I feel like this one might have some legs and I'm looking for outside the box ideas on how to market/monetize. It has the potential to have pretty high CPM on adsense because it's targeting mobile users/ specific target audience etc. I reached out to a few YouTuber's to see if they'd play a home game using it and we'll see if anyone responds. Any other ideas?

Agreed, I'd rather play with real chips anyway. Just don't always have them/enough. Still at a table with real cards etc just using this to bet.

I'd never use something like this… especially if it logs all betting action. To me, a big part of being good at live poker is having the ability to remember this stuff in hands and then interpret the actions and act.

Kansas Kid said:

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It ain't poker without the chips and they need to be real, clay chips not the cheap plastic one. I can also play golf on my phone but I don't find that to be anywhere near as exciting (or frustrating) as the real thing.

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Agree that real chips make the experience. This could work in a pinch but would need to keep phone awake and have speed bet buttons so it's all frictionless. Certainly not clicking into a box, typing numbers, and hitting submit. One click action. Set phone on table and tap without much effort to place bet

It creates 2 game flow problems.

1. It will most certainly make the game significantly slower.

2. Money tracking not where the game is happening will create reconciliation issues no matter how tight the app tracks it.

Need to play live or online. What you are describing is a mix of both. Don't think it'll work if you have to input numbers in while playing live. I'd much rather just play online with all my friends on a separate computer in the same room (so we can still **** talk, chat, etc) but the action would go much faster and we wouldn't need to waste time inputting anything.

Agreed for sure, the quick chips button will populate the amount for you. Tap the $1 twice and hit bet, you just bet $2.