Poker Software

[Spacegun]

Anyone know of a company that offers the sale of poker software. We are trying to assist a charity in running an online league.

[yoyo]

You wouldn't buy your own software. All you have to do is arrange for the league to be held on any site. I can probably assist with this if you like or you can approach sites yourself.

[Spacegun]

Yoyo - Unfortunately the client has 'investors' who want ownership of the business model to run these charity events. So, hence buying the rights to the software to customise. I've looked at the likes of OnGame, but they don't need the networked core of users. Just a simple league-type set-up...

[Blu3B3ar]

Spacegun,Buying software to run an internal online league is a massive overkill. Huge costs to set-up, huge costs to customize plus a great deal of technical know-how is needed to set up the software, hardware and the servers.Buying software to run a league is only viable if you're going to get rake (which is not legal if you set up from Australia and get Australian clients, but this a totally different matter) and have cash game players in the order of thousands. I would just recommend a series of private tournaments in Pokerstars, which is infinitely less hassling for your purposes.

[yoyo]

That's correct - the costs of anything that "works" would be prohibitive without a serious marketing plan for recouping the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mansion spent a fortune on their proprietary software and it was still crap the GDP of a small country later - and they moved to OnGame, which is surprisingly crappy software in itself for such a large commercial network.