For the person running the game
Poker Director is the all-in-one tournament management application for home games, poker rooms and clubs.
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Custom clocks for any tournament structure.
Buy-ins, rebuys, add-ons and finishing places.
Random seat draw, and a chart built for the room.
Rake off the top, and payouts that add up.
Points, standings and a full game history.
Run the game from your phone.
One command centre
All the tools are in the app on your machine, and run with the internet off. The three cards marked also have an online half that reaches players at home — see the note at the foot of this page.
Build your own blind structures with breaks and antes, then save them and reuse them week after week. Levels advance themselves and are called out loud, so you can be across the room with your hands full.
Buy-ins, rebuys, add-ons and bounties tracked per player. Finishing places are worked out as they bust — including the awkward one, where somebody registers after the game has already started.
A random seat draw, a fullscreen chart built to be read from across the room, and a designer to lay the tables out the way your room actually looks. Rebalance as tables break.
They scan a code at the door and put their own names on the roster, picking their add-ons as they go, while you take the money. The Check-In Desk puts the same arrivals on your own screen, and two players with the same name are asked apart as they walk in. The same code lets them check in days early — for the tournament or for a cash seat — so you know your numbers before the night.
Take rake off the top as a percentage, a flat amount or so much a head, and the rest splits into whole dollars that add up to the pot. Money Collected tells you at a glance who still owes you, results record what the night cost each player as well as what they won, and a buy-in taken by mistake can be reversed.
Hand a key to a person rather than a PIN to a room. Issue one to “Tom’s phone” or “Dealer 3”, say whether it runs the clock, knocks players out or works the cash list, and change that later without issuing a new one. Scan it across and it becomes an icon on their phone. Take one back on its own, or cancel the lot at once. It runs over your own wi-fi, and it tells you when it has lost the PC instead of quietly showing numbers that stopped being true.
Every game the room is running at once, each with its own queue — the 1/3 hold’em, the 2/5 Omaha, the bomb pot. Players put their name down from their phone and watch the queue instead of standing at the desk asking, and they can be on as many lists as they like while sitting in exactly one chair. Open a table when you have the names for it, break one up and everybody goes back to the front, and move somebody to any open seat in the room. Called at a bad moment? They pass and keep their place. It runs whether or not a tournament is on.
Record who holds the high hand, the bad beat and every other side prize, and what they are holding it with. The room reads it off the side screen, and the pot is worked out from everybody who actually paid for it.
Points per finishing place across a whole season, with standings, a drop-lowest rule and a full game history you can go back and correct. Players can look up where they stand from anywhere, on a night when nothing is running at all.
Seven come ready to run, from most nights played to the bad beat pot, worked out from the nights you have already recorded. Anything your own room runs, you build: describe it in plain words — a ticket for every two hours at a cash table — and the program tracks it and shows every player where they stand.
Tell it what you want in your own words — “open sign-ups at 2pm”. It reads the sentence back as a list of what it would do, and does none of it until you press Do it. It never interrupts: it speaks only when you open it.
Run every screen in the room off the one PC — clock, seating chart, cash list, high hands and the check-in code — each on its own monitor, or two of them sharing one. Move, resize, recolour or hide anything, and put your own banners up.Additional monitors or televisions, and the hardware to drive them, are not included.
Your side of the room
They are the same job. The television shows the room where it is; the phone runs it from wherever you are standing — start and pause the clock, knock players out, seat late arrivals and work the cash list, over your own wi-fi.
Keep them coming back
Seven come ready to run and need nothing set up — most nights played, most wins, most final tables, a freeroll qualifier, and the high hand, bad beat and aces cracked pots. Pick one and it is already worked out from the nights you have recorded.
Anything your own room runs, you can build. Describe it in your own words — “a ticket for every two hours of cash play, drawn end of month” — and get a working one back. Or work it out yourself and paste the board straight in. Either way the program then tracks it and shows every player where they stand.
It runs on your PC, from records that never leave it, and nothing is declared won until you say the period is over. Whatever the board says, the program never moves money: it tells you what is owed, and handing it over stays yours.
One PC, every screen in the room
The clock on the television, the seating chart on a second screen, the cash list and the high hands on a third — each one sent where you want it, or two of them sharing a single monitor, split down the middle. Move, resize, recolour or hide anything on any of them, and put your own banners up.
More than one screen means more than one display. Extra monitors or televisions, and the video outputs, cables or splitters to drive them, are not part of the software and are yours to supply.
Their side — and they are not here yet
A player checks the queue from the car park, puts their name down from the sofa on a Tuesday, and looks up where they stand in the season on a night when nothing is running at all.
None of it needs them to be in the building. It is the same link every week, and their phone sounds when a seat comes free.
Launch pricing
Optional, and separate
The app runs your night. This puts your room online — signups, standings, the cash list and a live view of the tournament — on one link that never changes, and keeps your season somewhere it cannot be lost with a computer. It is a monthly subscription with a free trial, entirely separate from the app: if it ever lapses, the clock, the roster, the payouts and the seating chart carry on exactly as they are.
One link, printed once, that players use from home — with your buy-in and your add-ons on it, and a running total of what they will owe at the door. Nobody has to be in the building to put their name down.
The page shows how many have signed up, so you can check it from your phone on a Tuesday and decide how many dealers you need. It resets itself once you record the game.
The venue page says how many tables are running and how full each one is. Tick one box and a player can tap a table to see who is sitting at it; leave it unticked and it stays a headcount, which is all somebody at home needs to decide whether it is worth the drive.
Somebody who put their name down sees themselves on the list, and their phone sounds when you call their seat. No account, no password, nothing to install.
Make a phone code from the Cash Game page and whoever holds it can open tonight’s list from their phone. It can do nothing else — it cannot publish, cannot see the tournament and cannot change a setting. Every opening says when it stops, and one button takes the code back.
Give it a day and a time and it opens without you. Nothing opens without a closing time, so there is no way to leave it quietly taking names all week.
Standings live online all week — and the quiet nights, when nothing is running, are exactly when somebody pulls out their phone to see where they stand. A league people can check is a league people stay in.
The link belongs to your competition, not to one night. Same code next week, next season, and after you replace the PC. Print it once and leave it up.
The clock, the blinds and who is left, on any phone in or out of the room. Players who busted early still follow it, and so does whoever is deciding whether to drive over.
Players put their own names down before you have even opened up, and the order is the order they asked — not the order you got round to typing them in.
Every finished game is kept off-site. If the PC is stolen, drowned or simply dies, sign in on a new one and take your whole season back — and the code on your wall keeps working, because the address never changes.
Type who they go to. That is the entire setup — no SMTP server, no port, no app password to create on somebody else’s website. Replies come back to you.
A player ticks one box when they sign up and gets an icon for their phone showing every venue they have played that uses Poker Director, what they did there, and a way straight back to any of those check-in pages. Nothing for you to set up, and nothing kept for anybody who does not tick the box.
A player’s record shows tournament places and payouts — the same figures already on your standings board. What somebody bought in for at a cash table and what they took away is never asked for and never held, so it is not yours to be answerable for.
Type it once and it appears on every player-facing page and at the foot of the results email.
A look at it
Why this exists
PD.net came about from seeing and using other software in the industry. We built this system to fill in the shortcomings of other systems.
This project has been built from the ground up. With that said, if there is an issue — or something you would like to see in the program — send an email with the details to support@poker-director.net.
The intention behind this system was for small venues to have access to the expensive capabilities of professional software, without the large expense. For this system to work by design it has to maintain a fairly large backend, which is what Live Services supports.
Buy it once and own it. No account to create, no subscription to keep the clock ticking, and nothing that stops working because a card expired or a company folded.
The venue’s wi-fi is somebody else’s problem. Everything that runs the tournament runs locally, and it keeps running if the connection drops mid-level.
Every season, every result, every player list sits in a folder on your own machine, in a form you can copy, back up and take with you.
Buy-ins, prize pools and the cash list are numbers this software helps you keep straight. It never touches the money itself — that stays between you and your players, where it belongs.
I hope you find this product to your liking. Play well!
Thanks,
The PD.net Team
Getting started
Every release is signed with a Microsoft-verified publisher certificate, so Windows can confirm the file came from us and has not been altered.
If you do see a blue “Windows protected your PC” box, click More info then Run anyway. Windows shows that for any newly published program until enough people have installed it — it is not a virus warning.
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keys@poker-director.net.A key works on one computer. Reinstalling on the same machine keeps working with the same key; a new computer needs a new one, so just send me the new Installation ID.
Everything runs on your own PC. No account, no subscription, and nothing needs an internet connection once you’re activated — including on game night.
Questions, or need a key? Email keys@poker-director.net.