Poker Genie GB - Buy Closed 10/7/05

[Daniel]

Originally Posted by gramma

I have a genie and if it's gonna be a big tournament I program breaks. I also like the ante's that the clock uses. I use the breaks for chip races and smoking breaks. The clock works out great.

i think he was asking HOW you program breaks? NOT IF you program them?

btw, HOW DO YOU PROGRAM BREAKS???? i need to learn to do this..

and the genie worked great at our last thursday weekly...

[k_woods]

Originally Posted by gramma

I have a genie and if it's gonna be a big tournament I program breaks. I also like the ante's that the clock uses. I use the breaks for chip races and smoking breaks. The clock works out great.

Thanks Gamma, The reason I was wondering was it takes up a bidding Level so when the break starts (assume it is after level 3) it shows the break at level 4 and then what get displayed as level 5 for what is really level 4 bidding round.

Also it is a real pain to roll back to zero for the breaks.. and then roll back up to the high blinds when setting the blinds after the break.

Originally Posted by Daniel

i think he was asking HOW you program breaks? NOT IF you program them?

Nope I was asking if people out there did program the breaks.

[clbg571]

for those of you who have used the poker genie, do you use the poker genie's suggested blind structure (after entering your # of players, chips, and desired tourney length) or your do you enter your own customized blind structure?

if you use the the poker genie's suggested blind structure have you found it to be fairly accurate in length of time? just a wonderin...

[Daniel]

my mistake...

i tend to be an idiot sometimes....

so HOW DO YOU PROGRAM BREAKS?
would anyone care to elaborate for me?

thank you,

d

the reason i want to know is for color ups...so i can do clear and succinct color ups...and smoke breaks for the buddah heads and tobacco heads...

[clbg571]

Originally Posted by Daniel

so HOW DO YOU PROGRAM BREAKS?

in custom mode, just enter in the length of time you want for the (break) round and set the ante, small blind, and big blind to 0.

[tripod22]

I don't have mine yet, but isn't there a way to program in breaks without resetting the blinds and antes?

Originally Posted by clbg571

in custom mode, just enter in the length of time you want for the (break) round and set the ante, small blind, and big blind to 0.

[k_woods]

Originally Posted by tripod22

I don't have mine yet, but isn't there a way to program in breaks without resetting the blinds and antes?

Nope.

So you have to crank everything to zero for the break, then back up for the antes and the blinds. Something to think about for version 3 ??

[gramma]

Originally Posted by k_woods

Thanks Gamma, The reason I was wondering was it takes up a bidding Level so when the break starts (assume it is after level 3) it shows the break at level 4 and then what get displayed as level 5 for what is really level 4 bidding round.

Also it is a real pain to roll back to zero for the breaks.. and then roll back up to the high blinds when setting the blinds after the break.



Nope I was asking if people out there did program the breaks.

It's not that much of a pain beacause your only setting two to three breaks anyways. Besides just hold the button down and it goes quick ,several seconds the most. I usually customize my tournament the day before since the Genie saves it. Pretty much you just have to do it once unless you play a seven card stud tourny. Then you have to set ante's and make the small blind become the bring-in and the big blind becomes the completion. Which I've done also and it works great. One thing I also suggest is to get some good velcro tape and mount the Genie unto a piece of wood the same size as the genie then put some type of bracket on the back of the wood so you can hang the Genie up any where in the room. It's better than a stand because someone will still knock the stand over eventually. And for those asking about setting the clock just read the directions there pretty easy to understand.

[k_woods]

Originally Posted by gramma

It's not that much of a pain beacause your only setting two to three breaks anyways. Besides just hold the button down and it goes quick ,several seconds the most. I usually customize my tournament the day before since the Genie saves it. Pretty much you just have to do it once unless you play a seven card stud tourny. Then you have to set ante's and make the small blind become the bring-in and the big blind becomes the completion. Which I've done also and it works great. One thing I also suggest is to get some good velcro tape and mount the Genie unto a piece of wood the same size as the genie then put some type of bracket on the back of the wood so you can hang the Genie up any where in the room. It's better than a stand because someone will still knock the stand over eventually. And for those asking about setting the clock just read the directions there pretty easy to understand.

Thanks for the advice on the wall hanger.

I figured out a quick way to program the breaks without having to wind down and wind up the blinds. I program the break with the last small blind. advance to next blind level program as usual, then com back to wind down the break. This way I only have wind down once, and I avoid the wind up back to next blind.

Ken

[tripod22]

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