How-To Guide
Everything the app does, explained in plain language. Every field, what it is for, and what it will and will not let you do. Use the search box on the left, or press / from anywhere, to jump straight to a topic.
Start Here
- Getting Started What Final Table Tracker is, how to install it, what happens the first time you open it, and how to get a tournament clock running in about ten minutes.
- The Library Structures, Players, Tables, Chips, Chip Sets, and Layouts. The reusable pieces every tournament is built from, field by field.
Setting Up
- Creating a Tournament The composition screen from top to bottom. Basics, format, rebuys, re-entries, add-ons, late registration, components, and house rules.
- Entry Modes Player Mode, Count Mode, and Clock Mode. What each one is for, what it gives you, and what it deliberately gives up.
- Payouts and Rake Manual and automatic payout schedules, how fixed and percentage places interact, the auto-payout dials, taking a rake, and fixing the sheet mid-tournament.
- Seating The seating board, randomizing, manual swaps, why "Start Tournament" is blocked until tables are balanced, and how the app breaks and combines tables during play.
- Templates Save a tournament setup once and run it any time you want. What a template keeps, what it deliberately throws away, the overwrite trap, and the League Format flag.
Running Events
- Running a Tournament The live screen. Busting players, rebuys, add-ons, late registration, undoing mistakes, editing blinds mid-run, and every keyboard shortcut.
- Display on TV Putting the clock on the big screen, with a QR code, a PIN, a Chromecast, or plain screen mirroring. Plus what to do when it does not work.
- 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.
Chip
Leagues
- Leagues and Seasons Turning a weekly game into a season with standings. Leagues, seasons, league formats, qualification, and the season lifecycle.
- Points Systems Explained Field-Weighted, Fixed, and Classic. How each one scores a night, worked through with real numbers, and an honest opinion on which one your game should use.
- The Championship Finale The season pot, the freeroll, auto-qualification, the Play-In Satellite, rank-scaled starting stacks, and how a season ends with a champion.
- Share Standings Online Publish your league standings to a private web page players open on their phones. Opt in once, then it refreshes itself after every game. A subscription add-on.
Reference
- Settings, Privacy, and Your License Themes, crash reports and usage statistics, activating and deactivating devices, and what happens if your license cannot reach the internet.
- Troubleshooting The Start button will not work, the TV will not connect, the Save button is grayed out, and other things that go wrong.
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