Share Your Live Tournament

Send one link and anyone can follow tonight's game from their phone: the clock, the blinds, who is still in, and who just busted. No app, no account. A subscription add-on.

Paid and Premium, with a paid Cloud Standings subscription. Display on TV puts the clock on the screen in the room. Share Live Page does the opposite job: it sends the night to everyone who is not in the room. The player’s wife who wants to know if he is still in. The friend who could not make it. The group chat.

They open a link on their phone and watch the field shrink.

Sharing it

On the live screen, click Share Live Page, between Manage Payouts and Display on TV.

You get a link and a QR code. Send the link however you normally send things: text it, paste it in the group chat, or let someone scan the QR. There is no password and no account.

The link is the key. Anyone who has it can watch, and anyone they forward it to can watch as well. That is deliberate, because asking a dozen people to type a password to watch a poker game is how nobody watches. Nothing sensitive is on the page: player names, chip counts and who knocked out whom, exactly what anyone in the room can see.

Nothing goes online until you press it, and the page updates itself from then on. You never press Publish again.

Player Mode only

Share Live Page only appears in Player Mode. In Count Mode and Clock Mode the button is not there at all, so if you go looking for it and cannot find it, check which mode you started in.

It is missing rather than greyed out for a reason: those modes do not track individual players, and the whole page is built around names. Who is still in, who just busted, who knocked them out. With nothing but a headcount there is nothing to show.

What they see

The number of players left is the headline, in the largest text on the page, because that is the thing everyone actually wants to know.

Under it:

• The clock: the current level, the blinds, the time remaining, and what is coming next.
• What Just Happened: a running feed of the night. Busts, rebuys, add-ons, late entries, and each level as it starts. It reads like a commentary track.
• The money: what the prize pool is worth and how many places pay, so a watcher can see when the bubble is close.
• Show the rest of the night: the whole remaining schedule, every level and break, with the time each one is expected to start.
• Follow a player: tap a name and that player is pinned to the top, so a wife watching from home is not scanning a list of twenty names every time she checks.

When the tournament ends, the winner is named at the top of the page. Nobody has to be following anyone to see who won.

It keeps working when your internet does not

This is the part worth knowing, because no host would guess it.

The clock on the page does not come from your computer. When you publish, the app sends the tournament’s schedule and the moment each level started. The page works out the rest by itself, on the watcher’s phone.

So if your WiFi drops in the middle of the night, the clock, the blinds and the projected finish time all keep running correctly. The only things that stop updating are the player count and the feed, because those need your computer to tell them something changed.

And the page never lies about it. It always shows how long ago it last heard from you: “updated 2 minutes ago”. A page that has gone stale says so, instead of quietly showing a bust from an hour ago as though it just happened.

When the night is over

The page is for tonight, so it does not stay up forever.

When you end the tournament, the app asks whether you want to stop sharing. Say yes and the page goes down straight away. Say no and it keeps working for about two more hours, which is enough for the drive home and the post-game arguing, then expires on its own.

Changed your mind afterwards? You can stop sharing at any time from My Tournaments. The link stops working immediately.

Share Results

Once a tournament is finished, you can share the results instead: the finishing order, top to bottom, for anyone who wants to know how it ended after the live page is gone. Same idea, same subscription, but it is a record of the night rather than a window into it.

Compared with Display on TV

They sound similar and they are not:

Plenty of hosts run both at once: the clock on the TV for the table, and the link in the group chat for everyone else.