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Poker Helm
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Actual Mac app · sample tournament
Scroll to deal in
Inside PokerHelm
The clock.
For the whole room.
Give players a clear view of the blinds, remaining time and tournament stats. Keep administration with you and the next hand in focus.
Actual Mac app · sample tournament
11:00 · doors open
The room fills faster than the desk
Keep a player database between events. Choose freezeout, re-entry, or rebuy and add-on rules, with your own costs, chips and limits. Close registration manually, at a level or after a set time — with identified operator overrides when enabled.
Entries0
Re-entries0
Add-ons0
Seats filled0 / 0
Prize pool$0
Level 1
20:00
25 / 50
no ante
12:00 · cards in the air
The clock is the tournament
Build your own blind levels, durations, breaks and antes, or reuse a blind template. Keep play moving with a shared tournament clock and announcements for the room.
Space · play / pause
← → · level
Esc · exit projector
The other screen
What the room sees
A player-facing tournament dashboard for your second monitor or TV. Show the clock, blinds, ante, field counts and prize pool, with announcements from the director — without exposing the operator controls.
LEVEL 12
18:00
SMALL BLIND1,000
BIG BLIND2,000
ANTE2,000
NEXT — 1,500 / 3,000 · ante 3,000
SEAT OPEN AT TABLE 14 — PLEASE MOVE
REMAINING181
ENTRIES387
TABLES21
AVG STACK64,143
PRIZE POOL$46,755
Space · play / pause
← → · step level
Esc · exit projector
← → · step level
Esc · exit projector
The floor
Every seat, from above
Tables, seats and stacks in one map. Start with a home game and grow your field without a fixed product table cap. Automated data and balancing tests cover 1,000 tables; practical capacity depends on your Mac and event workflow.
ShortChip leader
Behind the seating plan
Fair tables.
Fewer disruptions.
Weigh stack balance, skill, affiliations and player movement. Review the plan before applying it, with operation history alongside your controls. See how balancing works →
Actual Mac app · sample tournament
The application
Seven tabs, one night
Everything a director touches during play lives behind one tab bar. Scroll to walk it, or click a tab and drive it yourself.
Friday DeepstackLevel 12 · 1,000 / 2,000 · ante 2,000
Pause
Players181387 entries · 62 re-entries
Tables218–9 seated · 1 breaking
Prize pool$46,75527 paid places
Remaining07:42level 12 of 27
Tables unbalanced — largest 9, smallest 6Balance Now
Consider breaking Table 19 — only 4 players leftBreak Table
Chip leaders
1D. OkonkwoT7 s3412,000
2M. HalvorsenT2 s9361,500
3R. CastellanoT14 s1298,000
4S. AokiT5 s6276,500
5P. FerreiraT11 s4241,000
Blind schedule
11800 / 1,600
12now1,000 / 2,000
131,500 / 3,000
—break15m
142,000 / 4,000
Floor Layout · 21 active tables · 181 seated
Auto-Seat All
Add Tables
Save All
Registration open
Add PlayersRebuy / Add-on
Registered · 181 active
Search player database…
V. Sandoval1 re-entry
Riverside Club · 42 events · ITM 11
RegisterProfile
Ledger
Buy-ins 387$38,700
Re-entries 62$6,200
Add-ons 141$7,050
Last Analysis
21 tables · 181 players · 6 moves proposed
Score12.4 ↓ from 88.1
Actions
Auto-Balance Tables
Break Table 19
Proposed moves
T19 s2 → T4 s7
T19 s5 → T11 s9
T3 s1 ⇄ T16 s6
T7 s8 → T19 s3
blocked · same affiliation
T19 s5 → T11 s9
T3 s1 ⇄ T16 s6
T7 s8 → T19 s3
blocked · same affiliation
Hard rule
Table sizes never differ by more than one player — enforced before any optimisation.
Prize pool$46,755
Paid places27
Entries387
StructureDeepstack 15%
Payout Structure
Templates
Select a payout template to apply
appliedDeepstack 15%27
Standard 10%18
Flat top-heavy9
Satellite — flat40
Auto-suggest for field size
Level 12
07:42
Small blind1,000
Big blind2,000
Ante2,000
Pause
Previous level
Next level
+2:00
Next — 1,500 / 3,000 · ante 3,000 · break after level 13
AI Assistantoptional · your API key
Which tables should I break next, and where do those players go?
Table 19 is down to 4 players and Table 6 to 5. Break 19 first — its four seats fill the open seats at T4, T11, T14 and T20 without pushing any table above 9. That keeps the spread at one seat.
Anything I should watch before the break?
You are 4 eliminations from the money at 27. Once you are on the bubble, hand-for-hand across 21 tables is the slow part — consider breaking to 20 before you get there.
Ask the AI assistant…
Interactive product illustration with sample tournament data — not a live event or an app screenshot.
The engine
Balance is a scored decision
Stack spread—
Moves0
Score—
Hard rule, enforced before any optimisation — table sizes never differ by more than one player.
387
players remaining
In the money
27 paid · bubble burst on level 18
Level 18 · the bubble
Eliminations post once, in order, with the finishing place locked to the moment. An undo is a correction with an audit line — never a quietly rewritten row.
Payouts
Play it out. Or make a deal.
Choose a payout template, then finish with one survivor, by chip count, or with a manual deal. Preview the results and assign negotiated payouts before confirming the finish. Explore payouts & deals →
Chip share vs. ICM equity
Concept illustration · not an in-app calculator
Four players left · payouts 40 / 26 / 19 / 15 % of pool
Four players left · payouts 40 / 26 / 19 / 15 % of pool
The gap is the whole argument: chips are not money. A big stack owns a smaller share of the prize pool than it owns of the chips.
Final table
Nine down to one
The bracket closes seat by seat. Chip counts, finishing places and payouts stay reconciled the whole way down.
Written once
standings reviewed · payouts reviewed
committed atomically · audit trail sealed
committed atomically · audit trail sealed
Make it yours
A preset is a starting point.
Choose a home-game, club freezeout, re-entry or rebuy + add-on preset, then customize it. Set purchase limits, chip amounts, rebuy eligibility and add-on windows. Your house rules stay explicit, event by event.
Your house rules
Set the terms.
Then deal.
Start with a preset, then make the rules yours. Set registration timing and configure re-entries, rebuys and add-ons before the first player sits down.
Actual Mac app · tournament setup
After the last hand
Your event lives on your Mac.
01A local SQLite database with compile-time verified queries. The event lives on the Mac that ran it.
02CSV export for results, entries and payouts — plus a full backup you can copy to a drive and carry home.
03AI is optional. Core tournament operations work offline. If you use the Anthropic assistant with your own API key, your messages and aggregate tournament context are sent to Anthropic. Provider charges may apply.
Event reconciliation
Entries × buy-in$38,700.00
Re-entries × 62$6,200.00
Add-ons × 141$7,050.00
House fee−$5,195.00
Prize pool$46,755.00
Paid out (27)$46,755.00
Chips issued11,610,000
Chips in play11,610,000
Variance0.00 — balanced
Audit lines1,418
Choose your edition · Mac + Windows
Run the room.
Not the spreadsheet.
Local records. Backup and restore. Available exclusively through the listed Stores. Android is planned for Google Play; no release date yet. Regional prices and terms are shown by the Store. Store purchases.
PokerHelm by OwnerState · © 2026 · pokerhelm.com
Tournament administration for your room. This app does not process payments.
Docs & feature guide · Support · Privacy · Purchase terms
Tournament administration for your room. This app does not process payments.
Docs & feature guide · Support · Privacy · Purchase terms