Poker Clock
General: How it works
The Poker Clock helps you to manage your offline poker tournaments. Choose between Quick Start or Expert Mode where you can manage all of the settings for your tournament. You can easily save several tournaments with your preferred settings.
There is no login required to use the Poker Clock.
Quick Start will get you started quickly. Select the tournament with your preferred running time and click "Start" to start the tournament.
Expert Mode will give you options to edit all of the available tournament data, such as the number of players, chips stacks, and blind change time. This is for the more advanced tournament organizers.
Quick Start
Select the preferred tournament running time and click “Start” to start the tournament. You can choose between an approximate tournament duration of one, two or three hours.
Expert Mode
Choose Expert Mode if you want to edit all of the tournament data. Expert Mode provides a set of predefined tournaments where you can change the settings according to your preferences.
Game Setup
The game setup menu contains all of the options that can be modified for the chosen tournament.
Players: Change the number of players and their details in the tournament.
Chips & Money: Change the cost for buy-in, rebuy and addons as well as their chip stack values.
Blinds: Edit the blinds structure and their running length.
Rebuys & Addons: Change the number of allowed rebuys and addons.
Prizes: Choose what kind of prize structure the tournament should have.
When all settings are done, click “Start” to start the tournament.
Players
Add: Will add a player to the tournament.
Edit: Edit the name of the player. Alternatively you can add a name from your address book.
Delete: Removes the selected player from the tournament.
Chips & Money
Buy-in: Money is the initial cost for entering the tournament. You will then play the tournament with a chip stack. All players will begin with equal chip stacks.
Rebuy: Money is the cost for making a rebuy, if available in the tournament, after losing all of your chips during the tournament. You will then re-enter the tournament with a new chip stack.
Addon: Money is the cost for making an addon, if available in the tournament. Chips will then be added to your stack.
Blinds
Level time: This is the time between the blind changes. All blind levels are the same duration.
Small Blind: The initial value of the small blind. The big blind is defined as twice the small blind.
Blind levels: This is the number of blind levels the tournament should have. If the tournament reaches the final level, that level will be replayed until the end of the tournament.
Breaks every: This is how many blind levels will be run until a break is initiated.
Break time: The duration of the breaks in minutes.
Select “Options” and "View" to list the current blind structure, based on the details you have provided.
Rebuys & Addons
Rebuys allowed: The number of rebuys that the player can make before being knocked out.
Last rebuy level: This is the last blind level where the player can make a rebuy. After this level no more rebuys are allowed.
Addons allowed: This is the number of addons that the player is able to make.
Prizes
Up to five positions can receive a prize. Select one of the preconfigured prize distribution types or create a custom one. As soon as you edit one of the positions, a custom prize distribution is automatically created.
Poker Clock
The Poker Clock is opened in paused mode, click "Start" to run the clock.
When running a tournament in Expert Mode, you have a few options in addition to setting the tournament in paused mode. You are also able to increase or decrease the current running blind level. This is useful if you want to skip to a higher level.
When the timer reaches zero, the next blind level is started and the timer is reset to the starting time.
Manage Players
Press the fire button while the Poker Clock is running or select “Manage players” from “Options” to enter the player management menu.
Here, the number of rebuys or addons can be edited. Players that have been knocked out from the tournament can be removed from the list.
Once the second to last player has been knocked out, the prize distribution shows the ranking of the players.
Get Mobile Poker!
Send to a friend: Use the check boxes to decide which applications should be sent in the SMS. The SMS will only contain links to the applications, so the cost is for a standard rate SMS.
Select "Get From contacts" to select the phone number from your address book. Alternatively, enter the phone number into the field below the check boxes.
Download Poker: Choose this option to download bwin Poker Pro to your mobile.
