Blinds Are Up! Poker Timer

CG Thomas

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Everything you need to run your live poker games. Simple setup, customisable timer display and game settings, lots of helpful tools, a player database, and a poker league management system.

Blinds Are Up! is trusted by thousands of game organisers around the world to manage their home and club games, and to show their players all the essential information they need for a smoothly-run tournament.

• The Quick Setup dialog will get your game up and running immediately.
• Use the Schedule Editor to adjust level lengths, blind amounts, breaks, and custom level messages.
• Save and restore any number of named custom game setups.
• Customise the timer display to show your players key aspects of the state of the game.
• End-of-Level Alarms can use your device’s alarm/notification sounds plus spoken blind amounts and announcements.
• The Prize Payout Calculator shows how to split the prize pool between your top finishers.

Display key aspects of the game:
• Easy-to-read display of remaining level time, current level number, blinds and antes.
• Track and show the current number of players, rebuys, add-ons, and bounties.
• Show current prize amounts, automatically updated as the prize pool increases.
• Plus: Chip colours and values, time to next break, average chip stack, poker hand rankings.

Running your game:
• The Timer Controls let you skip forward or backward by small amounts of time or by whole levels.
• Use the player database to track players by name, including who knocked-out who.
• Use the Call-the-Clock countdown timer to encourage timely decisions.
• The Side Pot Calculator gives you the correct pot sizes for multiple all-ins.

More tools:
• Starting Stack Calculator works out how many of each chip value to include in a starting stack.
• Chip Set Editor lets you show your players the colours and values of the chips used in your games.
• Screen Cast Helper helps configure your device for casting the screen to a TV.
• Poker Dictionary with over 700 poker definitions and abbreviations.
• Poker Quotations with insights and quips from legendary players and celebrities.

Run your own poker league:
• Create multiple seasons, with up to 110 games per season (enough for annual seasons of twice-weekly games).
• Add game results from your game history, or enter results by hand.
• Flexible points system, with support for a simple points list or points formula.
• View and export tables of statistics for season games and players' performances.

Upgrade for more features:
• Remove ads
• Use your own background images
• Early-warning level alarms
• Export/import game settings to/from CSV files
• Export/import player database and poker league to/from CSV files
• Automatically select number of prizes based on number of entries
• Track early bird bonus chips
• Blinds notifications on lock screen
• Player database support for up to 200 players
• Hide Android system bars in full screen mode
• Cast only the blinds display to TV or remote display (to hide game control screens)

IMPORTANT: This app is not a poker simulation, and you can’t place bets through this app. The information you enter into this app is for display purposes only, to help you enjoy real-life games with your poker buddies.

Ratings and reviews

Great app for running a weekly pub league , and the vocal reminders for blinds are perfect when we are spread across the pub on different tables. Always recommend it to other tournament directors who play in other pub leagues. The icing on the cake would be to include seating draw.

I love this app. Great for tracking your poker night. Highly customizable, from sounds, blind schedule, chip style, chip calculator. The developer is great at responding to feedback and making updates. I'm a numbers/ details guy, I love the league stats that are available to track the players rankings.

Love the flexibility and clarity. Very user friendly. Has some really nice features. Of course there's always room for improvement. Here are a few suggestions for future versions: Add an option to mirror screen to TV. Allow users to select a background image from their photo gallery. Add players names and pictures. (Might be a bit much to ask.)

What's new

Version 4.7
* Money amounts (Buy-ins, Rebuys, etc.) on the Money & Prizes screen can now be specified to two decimal places.
* Prize calculations now support rounding prize amounts to a nearest fraction (for example: 0.50, 0.25, 0.01, etc.).
* Percentages used for calculating prizes can now be specified to a tenth of one percent, enabling finer control over smaller payout amounts.
* Added Shallow, Medium, and Steep prize percentages presets for prize counts > 10.