Blind structure

The Blind Structure screen lets you build, edit, and fine-tune the levels for your tournament.

Generating a structure

The fastest way to get a blind structure is to let the app build one. The Blind structure section at the bottom of the tournament Settings screen generates a complete set of levels from:

• Expected players — How many players you anticipate
• Starting chips — The initial stack size
• Chip set — Your chip set, which every blind and ante is built from (see Blinds your chips can pay below)
• Minutes per level — How long each blind level runs
• Add breaks — When on, sets Minutes per break and Levels per break
• Initial big blind — Where the structure starts
• Antes — none, standard, or big blind (see Antes below)
• Blind growth rate — A slider from slowest to fastest. It controls how steeply blinds climb, and therefore how many levels get generated before the tournament is expected to end.

As you adjust these settings, the preview below them updates in real time.

The preview isn’t applied until you save it.

Tap Save this blind structure below the preview to actually use it. The app confirms first, because saving replaces every existing level. (In a brand-new tournament that has no levels yet, use the Save button in the top right instead.)

See Setting up a tournament for a walkthrough of configuring these values.

Blinds your chips can pay

The big blinds themselves are the familiar WSOP-style progression. What your chip set decides is everything built around them, and the rule is the same each time: use the largest chip that will do the job, so the small denominations can be colored up sooner.

• The small blind is the multiple closest to half the big blind, of the largest chip that both divides the big blind and fits within that half. So a 300 big blind gives a 200 small blind rather than 150 — nobody has to keep 25s or 50s on the table for a level whose big blind never asks for them.
• A standard ante is built from the largest chip that fits within 12.5% of the big blind. At a 2,000 big blind the target is 250, so with 100 as the largest chip that fits, the ante is 300 rather than a 250 that would drag a smaller chip along.

The result is a structure that retires your small chips level by level instead of dragging one denomination along because a single ante still needs it.

The same rules fill in the suggested values when you add a level by hand at the bottom of the blind list.

Antes

The Antes setting changes what the generator produces and what the level editor asks for:

• none — No antes. The ante field is hidden throughout. This is the default.
• standard — Every player antes, roughly 12.5% of the big blind, in the largest chip that fits (above). There’s no ante on the early levels, where no chip you own fits within the target.
• big blind — A big blind ante, posted by the player in the big blind. The ante equals the big blind on every level, and fields are labeled BB Ante rather than Ante.

Viewing the blind list

Open Blind structure from the navigation drawer. Each level is numbered and shows its blinds, ante, and duration — for example 6: 100/200, ante 25, 20 min.

The number is the one directors call out, so it counts blind levels only. Breaks and pregame carry no number and don’t consume one — a break sitting between levels 4 and 5 leaves the next blind level as 5. The same numbering appears in the timer’s Go to level menu and in the mini timer.

Break levels are shown with a coffee cup icon, blind levels with a card icon. If the generator added a break before the first blind level, it appears as Pregame rather than Break — a buffer for players arriving and buying in.

A star icon marks the estimated last level: the level whose big blind reaches the point where the tournament is expected to end, based on player count and chips in play. Tap it to see the numbers behind the estimate.

To rebuild the whole structure from scratch, tap the wand icon (Generate blind structure) in the app bar to jump back to the generator.

Editing a level

Tap any level to open its settings. You can change:

• Title — Custom name for the level
• Subtitle — Additional label text
• Minutes — Duration (1 to 10,000,000)
• Small blind and Big blind — The blind amounts
• Ante / BB Ante — The ante amount, labeled to match your tournament’s Antes setting. Hidden when antes are off.
• Pause after — Toggle to automatically pause the timer when this level ends

You can also switch a level between Blind and Break using the segmented button at the top.

Note

Two link toggles sit beside the fields, both on by default: one ties the small blind to the big blind, the other ties the ante to the big blind. While linked, editing any one value adjusts the others proportionally. Tap a link icon to break that link and edit the value on its own.

Batch operations

At the bottom of the level editor, you’ll find buttons to apply the current level’s “Pause after” or “Minutes” setting to all levels of the same type (all blind levels or all break levels).

Adding a level

The row at the bottom of the blind list appends a new level. Fill in Small, Big, and Ante, then tap +. Each field is pre-filled with a suggestion that continues your structure, and the new level takes your default level length — there’s no minutes field here.

To append a break instead, tap the card icon at the left of the row to switch it to a break. It then offers a single Minutes field.

A structure can hold up to 100 levels; the row disappears once you reach the limit.

Reordering levels

Drag the handle on any level tile to move it up or down in the list. This lets you insert breaks between specific blind levels or rearrange the structure as needed.

Deleting levels

Swipe left on any level to delete it. To remove all levels at once, tap the Erase all levels icon in the app bar — it asks for confirmation, since this can’t be undone.

Running out of levels

If none of your levels reach the big blind the tournament is expected to end at, the star disappears and a warning icon appears beside the summary line at the top of the list. Tap it to see the expected final big blind, along with the player count and chips in play the estimate is based on, and decide whether to add more levels.

It’s only an estimate — the tournament may end sooner or later depending on how people play.