PokerPall is live. Here's why we built it

Every home poker night ends the same way. The cards are packed up, someone is counting chips under a kitchen light, and three people are arguing about who owes what to whom. Phones come out. A spreadsheet gets mentioned. Somebody says "just send me whatever, it's fine" and quietly eats a twenty.

We built PokerPall to end that moment. As of today, it's live on Google Play.

The problem nobody admits to

Hosting a poker night sounds simple until you actually do it. Before anyone sees a card, you have to answer a stack of questions that have real maths behind them:

• How many chips of each colour does every player get?
• What blind structure fits the night you want, a quick two hours or a proper grind?
• When do blinds go up, and who's watching the clock?
• If rebuys are allowed, who bought back in, and how does that change the prize pool?
• At the end, who pays who, in the fewest possible transactions?

Most groups solve this with a mix of guesswork, a YouTube blind timer playing on someone's laptop, and one unlucky friend doing arithmetic at 1am. It works, sort of. It's also the part of poker night everyone would happily delete.

What PokerPall does

PokerPall is a companion for the host's phone (and, if they want, everyone else's). It covers the night end to end:

Setup in about a minute. Pick cash game or tournament, set the buy-in and starting stack, and the chip calculator works out exactly how to split your physical chip set across the table. No more "let's say the blue ones are 50."

A blind timer that doesn't quit. The live timer runs through your blind structure, keeps going when the screen locks, and sounds an alarm at every level change. Presets for turbo, standard, and deep stack nights, or build your own.

Rebuys and the prize pool, tracked. Every rebuy and add-on is logged as it happens, so the prize pool on screen is always the real number, not the number someone half-remembers.

The settlement. This is the reason the app exists. Enter what each player finished with and PokerPall calculates the minimum set of payments to square everyone up. Six players might need just four transfers. Then it generates a summary card you can drop straight into the group chat, so the result is on record and the arguing is over before it starts.

Friends can join from their own phones. The host shares a QR code or link, players scan it, and everyone sees the timer, blinds, and prize pool live. No accounts, no sign-up, no friction.

Free tools, right here on the site

Not ready to install anything? The two calculators that started this whole project are free on this site, no sign-up needed:

• The settlement calculator works out who pays who after any cash game
• The chip calculator splits any chip set across any number of players

They exist because these are the two questions every host googles at some point, usually with guests already at the door.

What it costs

PokerPall is free. The free version carries a few ads, and a one-time premium unlock removes them and adds game history with per-player stats. No subscription. We think a tool you use a couple of times a month shouldn't bill you every week of it.

What's next

Android is live today. iOS is in the works and close, which matters because most friend groups are mixed-device, and poker night shouldn't depend on everyone's operating system. After that, the roadmap is shaped by the people using it, so if something annoys you or something's missing, tell us.

If you host, or you know the person in your group who always ends up hosting, give PokerPall a try tonight. Worst case, you never argue about the maths again.