16/05/2026
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Review #9
Back for another review, this time it’s an Android and web based tournament manager/timer - Tournament Director by Ace King Suited.
Main Features:
Clock display,
Create players and custom tournaments, leagues, blind structures, prize payouts as well as pre-determined settings.
Invite players by email.
Allow players to register from their phone via the app/website and view the tournament info direct from their phone.
Its main feature is of course the timer which has 3 different displays, basic, detailed and director. Each of which display various amounts of information for all the players to see.
You can see the blinds, level timer, next blinds, players, average chip count, time to next break and even how much the potential prize-chop with the current amount of players left.
Each screen has a clean design with ability to change some of the accent colours to suit your needs.
You can cast the screen to a TV/Projector via screencast/adapter but if you only have it running on one device you cannot make changes to the game/payouts etc without everyone seeing. Now if you use a second device you can lock the screen on one device and log into a second device and control the game from that device. Quite handy if you intend on playing in the game as well. Having the Director mode not affect the game screen when running from a single device would be a helpful update.
The software tracks all players buy-ins, rebuys, add-ons, bounties, eliminations, games played, ITM and win percentage stats along with a star ranking system amongst other info. Although it does not accommodate a points system for leagues just a money based one.
You can manage player registrations and profiles, invite players to games via in app invite.
A big plus this app has the ability to chop the prizepool in a few ways.
- Even Chop. Split between players regardless of the stack sizes.
- Chip Chop. Remaining prizepool is divided by stack sizes.
- Next Prize Chop. All players receives the next scheduled prize and the remaining amount left over is split evenly amounts the players.
- Players Choice. The TD manually enters the chip stacks and prizes decide by the players.
- Independent Chip Model. The TD enters the current stack sizes per player and the current prize payout for each position and the software calculates the payouts.
Settings.
While there are a lot of things you can edit in terms of buy-ins, blinds, ante, level duration, starting stacks and payouts a few options are missing. The ability to change the voice which is a robotic, synthasised voice and sounds for the various changes during the game, like the end of level alarm or and break announcements.
The currency is only in US Dollars, so if you’re using this in other countries you can’t change it.
Leagues And Sharks.
You can view all leagues currently using this software and view some basic info like location, game day, buy-ins, average amount of players, as well as request to join them leagues.
You can also invite other players on the date base to your games and view some of their stats.
Help Info.
Unfortunately not all the “help” articles are there so not entirely useful.
Pros.
Quite in-depth, with a clean and nice enough clock display.
ICM and prize chop method is a great addition.
In-App Player invite method is nice and the ability to see who has responded.
Good stats section and unlimited player database.
If the internet connection drops it does re-connect itself and update the timer without any visual loss to the display.
Cons.
Personally I find the interface awkward and clumsy to use especially for first-time users and not the quickest way to get around the app, but to be fair I’ll get used to it.
Lack of screen display customisation. Especially for those of us that are colourblind, some combinations are hard to see the functions.
No ability to change voice and game sounds. The voice is truly horrible and it doesn’t announce the blinds/antes.
No option to operate a league based on points for each finishing position rather than just money value.
There is some lag between devices and screen cast but it’s not terrible.
Browser based timer
Verdict 7.9/10.
It’s really quite good if you only have a pc/android device.
It’s both quite detailed yet quite limited in terms of functionality
Personally I generally don’t use browser based timers due to most venues having poor Wi-Fi connections.
Lack of sounds/voice option is very disappointing.
Lack of customisation.
No option for Early-Bird bonus chips
On par with Blinds Are Up (see review #8) better with some things, worse with others.
Blinds Are Up gets the slight edge, but Blinds Up is still the benchmark.
