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, comprehensive game settings, player database and seating management, poker league management, and lots of helpful tools.

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 needed 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.

Seating Management:
• Automatic random seat assignments.
• Automatic table balancing.
• Manually assign or change a player’s seat at any time.
• Set Reserved Seats for player/dealers.
• Break tables, add new tables, redraw for final table.
• Show players their seat assignments on the blinds display.
• View suggestions for keeping tables balanced during a game.

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

Really good app. Behavior, layout, and other aesthetics are deep and easy to do. Hoping that seating management are coming soon!

Loving it! Bought the ads-free, it made our home tournaments so much more professional, what with the voice announcement and customisation and the fact that everybody can get quick information at a glance and me not having to worry about the timer amd remembering the blinds and antes! My only gripe, and I will give 5 stars if fixed, I can see my navigaton bar. It's not full screen like a game is and when I cast to the TV above the table, it looks a bit silly. Can it please be made full screen?

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 5.0
Support for Seating Management:
* Automatic random seat assignments
* Automatic table balancing
* Manually assign or change a player’s seat
* Set Reserved Seats for player/dealers
* Break tables, add new tables, redraw for final table
* Show players their seat assignments on the blinds display
* View suggestions for keeping tables balanced during a game