[Wedge Rock]

I run in by hand...

I simply use a sheet of paper to keep track of who is in. It also tracks buyins and rebuys. When you bust out, you have to tell me who busted you out. At the end of the night, I can calculate knockouts.

I put the information into Excel and it kicks out the tournament points.

I used to use Dr. Neau's software. I probably still would, except that I changed jobs and had to return my laptop. But running the last one by hand was a bit liberating... I wasn't constantly tied to the laptop. And I could keep track of everything I needed to on a single sheet of paper. It was a reall pain in the arse if you input something incorrectly into the software but didn't notice it right away... When you found it later, you basically have to stop everything, trace the error, correct it, then confirm everything after that is correct. Much simpler to just do it on paper. I don't have any problem running a 3-table tourney on paper. There has to be a limit to the manageability without software, but its somewhere beyond 3 tables...

If you need samples or any help putting something togehter, let me know.