- Displays the time remaining in the current blinds level, the ante and the small and big blinds
- Display visible for up to 40 ft
- Ready to use right out of the box
- Durable plastic construction
- Includes quick start guide on the back, printed instruction manual, and a 110v / 240v power supply; Dimensions 6″ x 4″ x 1″
Product Description
The Poker Genie is a poker tournament clock that electronically displays the time remaining in the current blinds level, the ante and the small and big blinds. It is a hardware-based blind timer that will also help set up your poker tournament. The Poker Genie will automatically calculate your blind schedule and tell you how many chips of each color to issue each player. It will estimate how long your tournament should last and … it does all this within a minute o… More >>
Poker Genie Home Tournament Manager Timer
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#1 by Judy E. Patchett on March 21, 2010 - 7:37 pm
This is the third one of these that I have bought. I have recommended them to friends. We all own one.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Ernest L. Lewis Jr. on March 21, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Very happy with not only the product, but also the quick shippment. On a previous purchase, the merchantdise that I received was defective. Amazon not only gave me a quick refund, but also paid for the shipping to return the item. 5 Stars for Amazon.com.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by W. Gary on March 21, 2010 - 10:52 pm
This is a great product to help your poker game run smoothly. The only thing that I don’t like about it, is that you can’t store more than one blind/game structure in it, but I wouldn’t let that stop me from buying it again.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by M. Davies on March 21, 2010 - 11:01 pm
Easy to operate in either Custom or auto mode. I’d recommend it to anyone that has regular poker nights or to run a tournament.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Albert W. on March 22, 2010 - 2:00 am
It’s unfortunate that I have to give this product such a low rating, because there are good aspects to this product. We used it in custom tournament mode rather than letting it set up a tournament for us, although I did test that a bit in a non-game setting. Mostly, it did seem to work as advertised. However, there were several issues we found.
On the good side, it does have a good, bright easily-read display. Also it remembers whatever custom tournament settings you put into it after you unplug it, at least for a few days (haven’t tested this over weeks or months).
The main issue is that the clock ran very slow. We discovered this by accident during our first round when a clock in the house with a chime “beat” the poker timer to the top of the hour, and not by a small amount. A timing test using a stopwatch on a smartphone during the second round showed that when 30 minutes elapsed, the poker timer was still showing 1 minute and 20 seconds left in the round. Some jokes were made about being on “poker time” (think “tropical island time”), the clock moving near lightspeed, or suggesting we break it open and try to figure out to overclock it to get it back on pace. We did continue to use the clock by mutual agreement through the rest of the tournament, but it was disturbing that a modern digital timer would be that far off. Maybe I got sent a bad poker timer, but it made us question the quality of the product , considering what I’d paid for it.
Other issues were less serious, but are noted below.
As other reviewers have pointed out, the alarm sound is loud and annoying, although fortunately it only lasts about 5 seconds when it goes off and it would be nice if it had a volume control. Also people have pointed out the lack of an on-off switch — you pull out the power plug. You do have to hold a button down when powering up to set up a custom tournament, and also to erase those settings.
An annoyance in custom tournament mode is setting up the big blind. When you program the small blind and then move to the big blind, it defaults the big blind to the value of the *small* blind, meaning that you’d generally have to change it. It would make more sense to default the big blind value to double the small blind (the typical value) to make the setup of a custom tournament much quicker.
The manual is understandable, although there are a few places where there were supposed to be symbols (indicating buttons and such) which were replaced with gibberish (accented letters) and you would have to figure out the intended symbol.
Rating: 2 / 5