| | |  | Game Room | Home » » » Poker Genie Home Tournament Manager Timer | | | | | | | 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 or two. You can also use The Poker Genie to display your own custom blind schedule. You can enter your own blinds, antes, and level lengths, allowing more experienced players to use The Poker Genie as an excellent wall-timer that displays the blinds and antes. No more "How much time is left?" or "What is the big blind?" questions. | | | Features: | |
• Poker tournament clock; enables you to easily host your own poker tournaments
• Displays time remaining in the current blinds level, the ante, and the small and big blinds
• Calculates blind schedule; tells you how many chips of each color to issue to each player
• Can also estimate how long your tournament should last or display custom blind schedules
• Made of durable plastic; measures 6 inches by 4 inches by 1 inch
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 33 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 NO MORE CONFUSION ON THE FELT!Sep 18, 2006
By Jason
Very Convenient for home tourneys. I love my genie. Pros and Cons lists I find help others the best instead of a paragraph full of nonsense. Straigh to the point.
-Pros-
- Bright lED lights, can seriously be seen from
40 feet away (I've tried)
- New Genie can be stood up and places anywhere,
or can be hung on a wall
- 2 options on a tourney: customization, and preset
- Easily arranges tournament schedual and chip distribution
- Small enough to take with you anywhere
-Cons-
- Alarm is way to loud
- No on and off switch
- A bit expensive
Overall I think it's a good machine. Not a bad gift for the poker player who has it all. Way better than a kitchen timer. I think the price is a little too high. It should be $20 less than the adverstised price. I've seen alarm clocks that do way more and cost a fourth of the price. It's like a calculator and a clock put together. The best thing about this is the peace of mind everyone gets because there is no one asking about the blinds and how much time is left. Shuffle up and deal and don't splash the pot. Adios
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
poker genieJun 23, 2009
By Maria E Veazey
We got this for my husband. He loves it, all his poker buddies love it. They all want one. We saw it on a few other websites, Amazon had the best deal. Great purchase!!!
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Clock runs really slowMar 03, 2010
By Albert W.
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.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
great product!Oct 12, 2009
By Vincent Destino
very nice product. only bad thing is no volume control and no on/off switch. A bit expensive but amazon has it a best cost. All in all very satisfied with the product.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Best Poker Clock on the Market!May 24, 2009
By R. Wiley
"Poker Guru"
I have tried a few poker clocks and this one is, by far, the best! It easy easy to use and customize. This is the 2nd one I bought!
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