Hey Rands,

Nice article - I personally love home poker games; so much so that I quit my job as a programmer in London and am now working full time on my site PokerDIY.com. My aim is to take all the things that make setting up this kind of thing hard, and make it a nice easy process. Ie. Searching for players near you, finding or setting up leagues etc. I am still developing the league functionality but it should be live in the next two weeks - one cool feature will be the ability to track score over a couple of games (a League is a collection of users, which has seasons, each of which is a series of games). Confused? Hehe - check out pokerDIY - my aim is to make it the MySpace of Poker.

And lastly - a top tip - ConcreteSoftware do a great THNL poker game for the Smartphone, and it comes with a little Tournament Timer that I bought for $7! It's very useful for home games!

cheers

Rodney