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New poker blind timer – Sound volume and Saving

Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2010 in Poker Ramblings, Poker Equipment, Poker Software, PokerDIY Tourney Manager

There’s a new version of PokerDIY Tourney Manager in town. You can now control each sound effect and speech bite (yes, PTM announces the blinds and t...   Read more »

Free poker blind timer for Windows Phone 7 (WP7)

Posted Saturday, October 30, 2010 in Poker Ramblings, Mobile Poker, Poker Software, PokerDIY Tourney Manager

Yes, PokerDIY Tourney Manager is now available for free download on the Windows Phone 7 mobile! Download it for free from the Zune marketplace (the ...   Read more »

Free Poker Blind Timer + Chip Calculator = PokerDIY Tourney Manager

Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2010 in PokerDIY Website, Poker Software, PokerDIY Tourney Manager

Have you tried our free poker blind timer yet? Here are 3 good reasons to try it: Runs offline (Windows or Mac) on any computer in fullscreen ...   Read more »

Running the Perfect Home Game - Part 1 - Playing Cards

Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Home Poker

In this 4 part series we will look at the key aspects that make a home poker game run effortlessly on your part. As the host this is going to be your ...   Read more »

Share your poker chipsets with our poker chip calculator

Posted Monday, July 19, 2010 in Home Poker, Poker Software, PokerDIY Tourney Manager

One of the cool new features in the latest version of the PokerDIY Tourney Manager chip calculator is the ability to share your poker chipse...   Read more »

Calculate starting poker chips with our free poker chip calculator

Posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 in PokerDIY Website, Betting, Home Poker, Poker Software

Check out the new Poker Chip Calculator - great for managing your home poker tourneys and working out starting poker chip distributions! It's free to...   Read more »

Unique email address required for each player

Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2010 in PokerDIY Website

As of today, PokerDIY will now require a unique email address per user. It was originally an oversight that allowed users to share email addresses wit...   Read more »

PokerDIY Upgrade and New Features

Posted Tuesday, January 26, 2010 in PokerDIY Website

We get a lot of feedback that whilst the profiles/groups/events and leagues on PokerDIY are pretty cool, they feel "disconnected" and it's hard to join things up to be really useful. In February we'll be rolling out some major changes to the way profiles, events and groups work, along with a lot of little changes all over the site. Unfortunately in order to do this we had to upgrade our core platform...

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A Self-Policing Poker Community - Right or Wrong?

Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2010 in PokerDIY Website, Social Networking

I received an email today from a concerned poker member that there was a less-than-ethical blog post on PokerDIY about the ability to cheat in on...   Read more »

Home Poker Laws in your Country/State

Posted Monday, January 11, 2010 in Home Poker

Ever wanted to know if your home poker game was actually legal in your State/country? We have compiled a FAQ for Home Poker Game laws to help you! Ma...   Read more »

PokerDIY PRO - New league features & benefits

Posted Saturday, December 05, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

PokerDIY PRO is an additional set of features that some players might like for their poker league or PokerDIY profile. Plans start from as little as $1 per month and offer benefits like NO advertisments (we know there are a lot of banners on PokerDIY, but we need them in order to be able to stay free) and advanced league customisations and features.

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Private Poker Leagues and Poker Widgets on Facebook/blogs

Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Facebook, Poker Widgets

Before today private leagues were total hidden from view unless you were a poker league member. This was great but came with a bit of a side-effect - ...   Read more »

944 new home poker players to play poker with

Posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

 We had a record breaking month of growth in October, 2009 with 944 new poker players signing up on PokerDIY to take advantage of our free servic...   Read more »

Your poker league scores on the Google Toolbar

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 in Poker Widgets

I use the Google Toolbar in Firefox and stumbled across a cool use for it! Put your home poker league scoreboard or personal poker player st...   Read more »

Last 20 Home Poker Games on League + Report

Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

Someone requested that the last x home poker games are shown on the league scoreboard page so that you have a quick way of seeing the last couple of g...   Read more »

Find over 8000 home poker games to play in!

Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Home Poker

The 8000th home poker game has just been listed on PokerDIY! It's great to think that so many poker players and games are connecting via our social ne...   Read more »

Auto Poker League Scoreboard Reports to Players

Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

Poker league scoreboard reports are now sent by default automatically whenever your scoreboard changes. This saves you as the poker league owner havi...   Read more »

Poker league scoreboard reports now update Twitter

Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 in Twitter

Do you have a Twitter account? (It's all the rage these days!). If you are a poker league admin on PokerDIY you can now automatically update your Twit...   Read more »

How to upload images, links and other HTML

Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

It is really easy to upload your own images, links and other HTML in your own blog posts, leagues and other content on PokerDIY. Only certain places o...   Read more »

Best x Results (Top Scores) scoring for a Season

Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

You may have noticed a new Season scoring option today - you can now score your leaderboard on the Best x Results. The poker league management websi...   Read more »

Add Guest (with no email) option for Poker Leagues

Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

You can now add Guests to your poker league. You may want to use a Guest if the person does have an email address (or want to use it for privacy reaso...   Read more »

Email Blast: Scoreboard reports & your league on your own blog/Facebook

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Newsletters

This email blast was sent to all Poker League owners on PokerDIY highlighting the new poker league scoreboard features.

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Send a personalized Poker League Scoreboard Report to your Players

Posted Sunday, September 27, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

After a good poker game the league host normally updates the league scoreboard and sends out an email with a report about the game and a lin...   Read more »

Add players to game filter - Active season players

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

There's a nifty new feature on the "Add Players to Game" screen which should help the larger leagues when adding poker games. In the past, this screen...   Read more »

PokerDIY Upgrade Update and Downtime

Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

For those of you who didn't know, PokerDIY was due to be upgraded to a new core version today (this would have meant some cool new features ...   Read more »

PokerDIY Core Software Upgrade

Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

Please note that today for the next 3 hours you may experience some odd behaviour on PokerDIY. We are upgrading our core platform software which...   Read more »

Add league players from your Address Book/Gmail/Hotmail etc.

Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

A new feature went live today which will help poker directors with big leagues get started a lot faster.  In the past you could only add 1 playe...   Read more »

Poker League Import Fixed - Total Cost = Buy In + Rebuys + Addons

Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

A while ago a league director raised an issue - bascially they were importing poker game results from the Tournament Director and the league scoreboar...   Read more »

Compare poker league management website features easily

Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

What features do you look for when running your home poker league? The ability to customize your poker league scoreboard? Whether or not you can filte...   Read more »

OnlinePoker2.0 interview - "Poker leagues go social with PokerDIY"

Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 in Poker Review

OnlinePoker2.0 is a great read for poker players and web enthusiasts alike. They follow and discuss advances in poker and social media/internet techno...   Read more »

PokerDIY Interview with PokerSoftware.com

Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 in Poker Review, PokerDIY Website

PokerDIY was featured a few months ago on PokerSoftware.com, a site dedicated to all-things to do with yep, you guessed it, poker software! It gi...   Read more »

Add your poker league scoreboard to your own site/blog/Facebook

Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 in Social Networking, Facebook, Poker Widgets

If you do any of the following this may interest you. Do you... Run your own home poker league? Have a league website or blog where you post the leag...   Read more »

Poker league scoreboards with Dr Neau, Tournament Director and STM

Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Mobile Poker, Poker Software

If you publish your poker league scoreboard from Dr Neau, STM or The Tournament Director to PokerDIY then you may have noticed a new little ...   Read more »

Now League Deputies can update your poker league scoreboard too!

Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

A feature request came through recently from Ryan T who runs his poker league on PokerDIY. He wanted some other league members to be able to...   Read more »

PokerDIY July Newsletter - Better player stats and more

Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 in Newsletters

PokerDIY July, 2009 Newsletter - We've been working on the poker player stats screen to make it more useful - for example, have a look at this players scores.

Read more about how you can have this on your own poker league or Click here to see a live poker league in action.

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Home Poker Games Scores and Personal Player Stats

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Scoreboard Update

The poker player scores and statistics view has been enhanced quite a bit in the last couple of months. Lets have a look at this poker player's profile stats to see the new improvements (it's the live stats our own Sydney Poker League and I'm doing better this year  ;)

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40 000th poker player on PokerDIY - A brief history

Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

PokerDIY started out in life in 2005 as a website for a small group of friends who got together every Wednesday for a home poker game.

Roll on 3.5 years later and we have just had our 40 000th poker player sign up for their free account on PokerDIY!

This is great news – our community of poker players is growing at a astonish rate – let’s take a look at some milestones and you can see why PokerDIY is more than just another poker social network.

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Your own Poker Player Profile URL

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

 Good news! From the 23rd of June, you are now no longer just a number on PokerDIY – you can have your own poker player profile URL.

Your Display Name is used at the end of the PokerDIY URL (like this; http://www.pokerdiy.com/Your Display Name) to give you your own unique URL which you can give out to people.

For example, here is my own poker profile: http://www.pokerdiy.com/rod.aspx

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Customizing your Poker League Logo

Posted Sunday, June 21, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

We recently had a performance issue on PokerDIY due to the amount of new poker leagues being created.

After tracking it down to a file system issue we had to temporarily remove the ability to change your poker league logo. The good news is that it is now fixed and easier than ever to upload your own image for your poker league!   Read more »

Improved poker league scoreboard updating

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 in Poker League, PokerDIY Website

Those of you who manage your poker leagues on PokerDIY will know that in the past updating your poker league game results was a bit of a pain. If you were not using Dr Neau, STP or The Tournament Director to import your results, you'd have to enter them manually through the web or iphone.

One of our users eventually commented on how slow this process was and raised a Feature Request. Well, we listened and redesigned the process to make it much quicker and easier to record your game scores!

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New look for PokerDIY!

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 in PokerDIY Website

Over the past couple of years PokerDIY has been through 2 different UI redesigns. One of the most common complaints in the last year has been tha...   Read more »

Do you use Facebook and PokerDIY?

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Facebook, Poker Widgets

Do you have a Facebook account? Do you use PokerDIY? The good news is that you can now log on to PokerDIY using your Facebook account. This means...   Read more »

Manage your home poker league with PokerDIY and DrNeau

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in PokerDIY Website, Poker Software

Do you use DrNeau to manage your home poker league or tourneys? Or perhaps you use PokerDIY to publish your league scoreboard and organize your home games? (for example, here's my home league!) Either way, life just got easier with the release of DrNeau version 3 which allows you to publish your poker league results directly to your PokerDIY league scoreboard!

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The best way to find local home poker games, tournaments and players

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 in PokerDIY Website

Either way, PokerDIY can help with our new Poker Games section. In a nutshell - it's a free (like the rest of PokerDIY!) service to help find local poker games, poker leagues, poker players and poker groups >in your area.

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PokerDIY Marks 3rd Anniversary With Map Service to Find Local Poker Games

Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 in PokerDIY Website, Press Release

Finding local poker games, poker leagues, groups and players just became easier with a new Google Maps mashup service from PokerDIY

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Poker Games and Poker Events on PokerDIY - What's the difference?

Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 in PokerDIY Website, Local Poker Tourney

PokerDIY has poker games and poker events. This can be a little confusing so I am going to explain the difference as they serve slightly different pur...   Read more »

PokerDIY breaks into the Alexa 100k website list - Traffic/Growth Stats

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 in PokerDIY Website

With the steady growth and new users it was bound to happen sooner rather than later – Alexa puts PokerDIY at 98 906 as of the 26th of November, 2008. This really is exciting and shows that poker players are finding value in our free service.    Read more »

My brush with Google death, paid links and the affect on the little guy

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 in Poker Ramblings, PokerDIY Website

I had a very real brush with Google Death recently and I thought I would share my experience out of interest. I run PokerDIY.com, a social network ...   Read more »

Poker League Scoring Enhancements

Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 in Poker League, PokerDIY Website

You can now rank your league season by Points, Average Points, Profit, Average Profit or by Games Played. You can set the scoring method at Season level so that each season you could decide to change it and not affect past results. Here are some more poker league scoring enhancements.   Read more »

PokerDIY Poker League Update - New Scoring Options

Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 in Poker League, PokerDIY Website

We have just released a new version of the PokerDIY Poker League core software. There are a number of major enhancements and a couple of small new features. If you manage your poker league on PokerDIY or know someone who does then read on!

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PokerDIY Poker League Update Email Blast

Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 in PokerDIY Website, Newsletters

This is the email blast that was sent to all poker league owners on PokerDIY to let them know about the new poker league scoring enhancements.   Read more »

PokerDIY August Newsletter

Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 in PokerDIY Website, Newsletters

Read the PokerDIY August Newsletter, Edition 4 with poker league updates, site news and loads more...

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PokerDIY Traffic Growth and New Features

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 in Poker League, PokerDIY Website

PokerDIY is growing quickly. At the time of this blog post we have an Alexa Ranking of 131 776. There are 499 poker leagues are being managed using PokerDIY custom poker league software, 496 poker groups throughout the world and we've paid out $4600 in poker freeroll prize money!

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Start your own Poker Blog!

Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 in Poker Ramblings, PokerDIY Website

Now everyone can share their poker ramblings and bad beats with other poker players right here on PokerDIY. Start your own poker blog and share your thoughts on anything to do with poker - bad beats, good beats, the poker industry or even a plug for your poker website or product (yes, free poker advertising!)

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Home Poker League Management Just Became Easier With PokerDIY

Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 in Press Release, Poker Software

Poker players can now track their poker game performance over time by taking advantage of the new integration feature between PokerDIY's free poker league management software and The Tournament Director.

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Managing your PokerDIY League with Tournament Director

Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 in PokerDIY Website, Poker Software

Do you use PokerDIY to manage your home poker league? Do you still record your results on paper or in a spreadsheet? Have you heard of The Tournament Director? Do you find recording the results to be a real pain? You can now publish your TD results to PokerDIY!

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Beating the freeroll password thieves and the new password release system

Posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 in Poker Freeroll, PokerDIY Website

Passwords for PokerDIY Freeroll Poker League games will now be released automatically with our new software to ensure freeroll players are active community members. This should deter freeroll pw thieves.   Read more »

Poker League Software Update - Start your own poker league NOW!

Posted Saturday, April 28, 2007 in Poker League, PokerDIY Website, Home Poker

We've just released some great new features in our poker league software to make starting and managing your home poker league easier than ever! (I've sure I've said it before, but in case you missed, it - it's free!)   Read more »

Watch our little poker community grow!

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

Last month 452 new poker players joined our poker family. This month we may beat that - so far we have 317 new poker enthusiasts, and it's only half way through the month! You can now also watch the poker league stats grow on the PokerDIY home page.   Read more »

PokerDIY Newsletter - Online Poker Leagues

Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

Every couple of months the PokerDIY Newsletter is sent out with the latest site changes and features - this issue concentrated on creating your own poker league online. This is the exact email that was sent out.   Read more »

Own a Blog? Make money blogging about the Poker Leagues on PokerDIY!

Posted Saturday, March 31, 2007 in Poker Review, PokerDIY Website

We are trying the beta CreamAid service - if you own a blog then review our Poker Leagues, help your favorite poker site, and earn some hard cash!   Read more »

Staying up to date with our poker alerts and RSS Feeds

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

If you play poker and have never heard of RSS and think it stands for "Really simple and Stupid" then you really want to take a look at this! By bringing the beautiful game (poker of course) and technology like RSS together, we can save time finding information and have more time to do the things we really want to be doing...   Read more »

Mookie99 PokerDIY Review

Posted Sunday, March 11, 2007 in Poker Review, PokerDIY Website

Top poker blog - Mookie99 - "'Cause everyone else is doing it" have done a fair and just review on PokerDIY   Read more »

Want to play in free online poker tournaments and freerolls?

Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 in Poker Freeroll, PokerDIY Website

Do you like to play in free online poker tournaments? The PokerDIY Freeroll Leagues are perfect for you then!   Read more »

My Poker Friends

Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

You can now invite other PokerDIY poker players to be your friends to stay in touch!   Read more »

Sound of a Suckout PokerDIY Review

Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 in Poker Review, PokerDIY Website

One of the top poker sites has done a fantastic review of PokerDIY...   Read more »

Free Poker Binds Timer

Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

Yet another useful tool to help you manage your poker games   Read more »

PokerDIY sponsors Thought and Theory

Posted Sunday, February 25, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

PokerDIY recently sponsored Thought and Theory to attend the FOWA conference   Read more »

PokerDIY #1 on Google and growing fast!

Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 in PokerDIY Website

Yesterday was a new record on PokerDIY with 58 new people joining our poker community in one day! This is fantastic news and mainly down to the new and mainly down to the increase in organic search results on the big search engines such as Google.   Read more »

Practise your Poker for fun!

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 in PokerDIY Website

You can now practise your poker on PokerDIY for free!   Read more »

Website Update - New Functionality - RSS Feeds and Store

Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 in PokerDIY Website

Another busy week has passed and work on PokerDIY has not stopped! We’ve introduced some new features!   Read more »

Poker Odds Checker

Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 in PokerDIY Website

How often have you had a hand and wondered what the odds were of you winning under certain conditions?   Read more »

Website Update - Poker Videos

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 in PokerDIY Website

There's a new section under the Resources menu called "Poker Videos".   Read more »

Website Update - New Functionality

Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 in PokerDIY Website

You may have noticed some changes and improvements on PokerDIY over the last month. As you know, PokerDIY is and always will be an evolving work of art, dedicated to helping you manage your league and home poker games.   Read more »


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