I am looking to create a paid based web site that will work with vbulletin based websites. This will be a user interface site.
Each user is a member of a poker staking forum PTP (parttimepoker.com). The users offers their action for sell on this vbulletin based web site much like stocks are offered. They advertise their action in what is called BAPs (buy a peace) and sell it for $$ per share. Each BAP must have a Rail, the rail is how the player(s) track their progress and profits and the investor follows their investment.
Most users do this manually, by typing in the tourney ID, Buy-in amount, finishing position, and monies won. Once this information has been typed in the user has to update the Bankroll. As you can see with each rail would be different and time consuming for the user if they are running several BAPs.
On this site the PTP’ers would sign up and create an account and pay for this service. They would state how many BAP rails they want to buy, provide the BAP ID#, links to each BAP on PTP and if cake is offered. They would provide their PTP name, and all poker site names. The system would then look at the link and see who is invested and for what amount, what the starting bankroll is, what the players cut is and create a spreadsheet type interface for the user. This spreadsheet would then show who the investors are, how much their investment is worth, Starting bankroll, running bankroll at the top of the spreadsheet for each BAP.
Once the spreadsheet has been created the user is not allowed to edit the information that has been provided. The user is allowed to update the spreadsheet with tournament ID#, the poker site the game was played on, and if it is a re-buy tournament how many units were used and what was the rake amount.
Then the system would then search a for the poker site tournament ID #, look for the user poker site name that they have provided. Once the users has been identified as played this tourney the system will report, finishing position #, total cost(buyin-rake+re-buys), re-buy (yes or no) number of units, win/lose amount and running bankroll. This is done for the user to minimize errors. The system would do this much like the poker tracking sites like, officialpokerrankings.com, thepokerDB, sharkscope.com, pokertableratings.com, and any other tracking sites I fail to name.
The system would create a link that the user would place on PTP. This link would show up much like an image on PTP. The link would show the follow information from the rail. Tourney ID#, finishing position, # of re-buys, total cost, win/lose, and running bankroll. This part will be self updating as the user provides this information. The user will need a link for each BAP rail.
When the user’s bap ends they will be able to close the rail and create a final report. The final report will be separate from the rail spreadsheet. The final report will show initial investment per shareholder, each shareholders profit per share, and user’s profits. If the BAP ends with less than the starting bankroll then a list of the investors is created and how much is owed to each. This is called a cake list. When a BAPs end like this all investors is listed in a cake list if cake was offered for the BAP, then a cake list is made for the user that show each investor he owes monies to and how much. As you can see investor will reinvest in a player to recoup monies lost, but they can only do this if the BAP is offering cake. If it is not then the money is gone.
Now on the main page of the site will be user login and password. A sample of the rail via PTP screenshot, services offered cost per bap rail. Also this page will show most profitable investments (PTP user name). This information is gathered from the bap rails created and closed on this site and is accumulative number. Each user will be given a ranking depending on their profitability. This ranking will be shown as Stars, 5 stars being the most profitable and 0 being the least. A Hall of Fame (HOF) section is also required, this section will show Users who has had a BAP that has ended 10x over their starting bankroll.
Please take a look at all sites named in this in order to gain the most information to give a complete quote and time frame estimate. I am looking to start hosting this site on a hosting service site like go daddy.com or something like that to start with. However as the site grows I will be looking to move this to a server and host and maintain this myself so maintenance need to be as easy as possible. There may be other services I will be adding in later.
I would also like a forum like PTP where the users can go and chat and talk poker.
