Monsters Poker League

The Pandemic Started It

In 2020, with nowhere to go and too much time on our hands, a group of friends started playing online poker three or four nights a week. Not for the money — for the company. We jumped on a conference call, dealt virtual hands, and spent the evenings playing cards and catching up the way we used to on the cricket pitch.

The players? Mostly the same cricket brotherhood that had been playing together for 25 years under the Monsters Cricket Club banner. The same banters. The same laughs. The same competitive spirit — just moved from a batting crease to a virtual felt table.

When the world opened back up, we didn't stop. We moved the sessions in-person — rotating hosts, everyone bringing food, the table getting louder as the night went on. A couple of sessions a month became a ritual: sumptuous dinners, serious poker, and the kind of conversations that only happen in a room full of people who've known each other for decades.

The problem was keeping track of everything. Buy-ins, loans between players, chip counts, who won which hands, the quarterly leaderboard everyone argued about. So the founder built an app to manage it — session tracking, hand recording, live ledgers, analytics. The group used it. It worked. And then the same question that launched the cricket platform surfaced again: if our group needs this, every poker group needs this.

Full-Stack, Production-Grade

Built with a real backend, not just a Firebase CRUD app. Java Spring Boot handles session archiving and business logic. React + Vite powers the frontend. GitHub Actions deploys everything automatically on every push.

A Night at the Table