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Managing players

Player management is where you spend most of a tournament. Everything else — the clock, the blinds, the display — runs itself once configured; players arrive, buy in, get knocked out and want paying.

It has to be switched on

Player tracking is enabled in step 6 of the tournament wizard (Track Players & Bounties). Without it, UHT counts entries as a number and there is nothing to manage. Turn it on if you want names, bounties, tables or payment tracking.

The Players dialog​

Open the tournament controls and press Players:

The Players dialog listing every player with bounty, earnings and actions

Everything lives here. Across the top:

  • + Add Player — a new buy-in
  • Event Log — the full record, and where you correct mistakes; see Tournament events
  • Undo … — reverses the last action, labelled with what it will undo
  • Chop — split the remaining pool; see Chopping the prize pool

And three toggles that change what the list shows:

  • Active only — hides eliminated players. Useful late on when two-thirds of the list is struck through.
  • Track Chips — adds a chip-count column, so you can record stacks. Needed for a chip or ICM chop, and for the Chip Stack Leaders display component.
  • Track Payments — adds payment state; see Tracking payments.

Adding players​

+ Player in the controls, or + Add Player in the dialog:

The Add Player dialog

Type a name. UHT suggests players you have had before, so regulars are a single tap and their name is spelled the same way every time.

Mark as paid records that they have handed over the buy-in — useful when somebody says they will settle later.

Add keeps the dialog open for the next person; Add & Close finishes. At a busy registration desk, Add repeatedly is much faster than reopening the dialog.

Every player added creates an entry event, which raises the prize pool and — in a bounty tournament — puts a bounty on their head.

The player list​

Each row shows the player's name, their Bounty (what they are worth to whoever knocks them out) and their Earned total (what they have collected so far):

The players list showing bounty and earned columns

The coloured bar at the left of each row is their status: green for active, red for eliminated.

If tables are enabled, the list groups by table instead:

The players list grouped by Table 1 and Table 2, each showing its buy-in total

Each group is collapsible and shows its own player count and buy-in total. On a two-table game this is how you answer "who is left on table 2?" without counting heads. See Managing tables.

Knocking a player out​

Press the bust button on their row:

The Bust Player dialog with an eliminator selected and a bounty preview

Eliminated by is required — pick who did it. UHT shows a bounty preview so you can see exactly what is about to be paid before committing.

You can select more than one eliminator. If two players got them all-in together, tap both and the bounty splits.

Press Confirm Bust:

The players list after an elimination

The busted player's row turns red, their bounty drops to zero, and the eliminator's Earned rises. Their finishing position is recorded, so prize money is assigned automatically if they finished in the money.

Got it wrong? Undo Bust at the top reverses it immediately.

Re-entries and rebuys​

If the tournament allows them, an eliminated player's row offers a re-enter action instead of a bust action. Pressing it puts them back in with a fresh stack, adds their payment to the prize pool, and — in a bounty tournament — a new bounty on their head.

The distinction between the two:

  • A re-entry is a new entry; the player counts as an additional entry in the field.
  • A rebuy tops up an existing entry.

Which one applies is set in step 2 of the wizard, and UHT labels the action accordingly.

Removing a player​

The bin on a row removes the player from the tournament entirely, as though they had never entered — the buy-in comes back out of the prize pool.

This is for correcting a mistake: somebody added twice, or added to the wrong tournament. It is not how you record a knockout. A removed player has no finishing position and does not appear in the standings.

Finding somebody​

Search players… filters the list as you type. On a forty-player field this is far quicker than scrolling, particularly when you are trying to bust someone while three people talk at you.

When the tournament ends​

When the last player is out, UHT shows the final standings:

The final standings with each player's position, prizes and win or loss

Every player's position, what they paid in, prizes, bounties, and whether they finished up or down. The small icons at the top of the dialog switch between views — a summary, the payout table, and the payment overview you settle up from.

Practical advice​

One person on the phone. Player management is the job that goes wrong when two people do it at once. If you need helpers, connect a second device as a multi-monitor controller rather than passing the phone around.

Record knockouts immediately. Bounty amounts depend on the order eliminations happened in, and reconstructing an hour of them from memory is genuinely difficult.

Use Active only after the first break. A list of eight active players is much easier to work with than forty, thirty-two of them struck through.

Turn on Track Chips if a deal is even possible. Chip and ICM chops need counts, and collecting them under time pressure at 1 a.m. is unpleasant.

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