Features:

• Setup your tournament blinds schedule with just a few mouse clicks:
  
  
  • Use built-in tournament blinds schedules for super-fast setup,
  • Customize a built-in blinds schedule to meet your particular needs, or
  • Create your own blinds schedule quickly and easily
    
  • Instantly see when chips will be ready to be colored-up (smaller denomination chips removed from the tournament
  • See an estimate of how long your tournament will last (you can tweak the assumptions as well)
  • Schedule / remove breaks with simple mouse clicks
  • Know whether your tournament will be a luck-fest or a skill based tournament, using Arnold Snyder's Poker Tournament Formula, which is built-in to SimpleTourneyManager2
  • Enable / disable antes

• Create professional-looking tournament announcements quickly and easily
  
  
  • Quickly post an nicely-formatted announcement (bulletin board code format) to SimpleTourneyManager.com (view a sample announcement)
  • Create a bulletin board code announcement that can be pasted to most website's bulletin boards / forums,
    
  • Create an HTML announcement that you can paste into emails, documents, or websites, or
  • Create a plain-text tournament announcement perfect for importing into emails or word processing software

• Provide your players with the information they need using the tournament clock, which shows:
  
  
  • The countdown clock (including a pre-game countdown [NEW IN BUILD 2]),
  • Current and next blinds,
  • Chip colors and denominations (changes automatically as chips are colored-up),
  • Built-in and / or custom messages,
  • Buy-ins, bonus buys, re-buys, etc...,
  • Total purse,
  • Total chips in play,
  • Average chips per player, and
  • the Bustout Board (with or without payouts)
    
    
• Customize the tournament clock screen to fit your needs and personality
  
  
  • Change the background using one of the supplied pictures or one of your own
  • Customize the text colors on the timer screen to work with your selected background

• Customize (or disable) the sounds (any wav file can be used) that play for various events, such as:
  
  
  • The end of a round
  • One minute to go in a round
  • When a player busts out
  • When it's time to take a break
  • When it's time to color-up
  • When the tournament is completed

• Track player activities
  
  
  • With simple mouse clicks, you can track all player buyins, rebuys, addons, bustouts, knockouts, bounties, etc...
  • All player activity dialogs appear off to the right side of the screen so as not to interfere with the timer and blinds displays [new in build #3]
  • Tournament results are available for every completed tournament (when using player tracking), and can be uploaded to any of the following poker league management websites (psst...they can be used for tracking non-league tournaments as well):
    
    
    • StatsGenie.com (aka: Home Series of Poker)
    • PokerDIY.com
    • HomePokerTour.com
      
      
  • You don't need to choose a website to post to in advance...summary files are automatically created for all 3 sites
    
  • You also have the option to simply enter the total buyins, rebuys, etc... via simple spin button controls on the timer screen, although you will lose the ability to report your results.
    
    
• Manage tournament  seating, including:
  
  
  • Automatic random starting seat assignment (you specify the number of seats per table),
  • Optional, automatic table balancing notifications,
  • Optional, automatic table breakdowns, and
  • Optional, automatic final table re-seating (you can specify the number of seats you want at the final table)
  • Optional, manual seating [NEW IN BUILD #6]
    
    • On confirmation of a buyin, the user has the option to assign a seat manually (program ensures you don't assign a seat that's already taken)
    • Some players can be seated manually, while leaving others for random seating, so dealers, handicapped players, etc... can be accommodated
      
  • Incremental seating (seats only those players who haven't already been assigned a seat) [NEW IN BUILD #6]
    • Beneficial when using manual seating or when player(s) arrive late
      
      
• Create tournaments with a variety of different "buy-in" options, including:
  
  
  • Regular buy-ins
  • Bonus buys (optional chip purchases at the beginning of a tournament),
  • Re-buys,
  • Add-ons, and
  • Bounties
    
  • You can specify a rake amount for each type of "buy-in", which is particularly useful for charity poker tournaments and poker leagues [Licensed version only]
    
    
• Customize the chip colors, denominations and distribution
  
  
  • You can specify ANY color you want for your chips using familiar color-picker controls
    
    
    • The exact color you choose will show up on the timer screen AND in on-line announcements
      
    • Select from either black or white text for the denomination
      
      
  • Let the program determine how many chips to issue each player (aka: chip distribution), or
  • Manually enter your own chip distribution
    
  • The timer screen will display only those chips that you indicate you have
    
    
• Easily create a paytable
  
  
  • Use the built-in paytable (aka: payout schedule),
  • Customize the built-in paytable to meet your particular needs, or
  • Create your own paytable
    
  • Specify how the number of players to be paid out will be determined, with 3 different options:
    
    
    • Fixed percentage (eg: top 20% will be paid). The program will automatically round this to the nearest person
    • Custom table (eg: 1-5 players pays top 1 player; 6-10 players pays top 2 players, etc...), or
    • Manual (fixed number of players paid)
      
      
  • Override the calculated payouts with your own values (they don't even need to be numeric)

Default Tournament Timer Screen


Customized Tournament Timer Screen
(Background picture, text colors, and event
sounds can all be easily customized)


Main Tournament Setup Screen
(Chips, blinds, buyins/rebuys/etc...)

Paytable Setup Screen with Default Paytable


Timer Customization Screen


Seating Chart Screen