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Everything you need to run a great poker tournament — from your first Friday night game to a club event on three screens.
New here? Run your first tournament takes about five minutes and needs no account.
Find what you need
🃏 Hosting a tournament
Everything involved in running the night. Start with your first tournament — the whole flow end to end, in about five minutes — then the topics you need as your games grow:
- Bounty tournaments — money on every player's head
- Tournament events — the record UHT keeps, and how to correct it
- Chopping the prize pool — Equal, Chip, ICM and Custom deals
- Managing players — entries, knockouts, re-entries
- Managing tables — seating, balancing and printed seat cards
- Tracking payments — who has paid, who is owed
- Pre-registering players — the field entered in advance
- Scheduled tournaments — a start time and a countdown
- Display QR code — the clock on every player's phone
- Player results and statistics — what each of your regulars has done
- Import your chips — your own chips on screen
🎟️ Tournament lobby
A public page for a planned tournament: players register themselves, follow your updates and talk to each other before the first hand.
- The tournament lobby — what it is and what it needs
- Opening a lobby — creating one and sharing the link
- The lobby page — what your players see
- Managing registrations — approving, seating, removing
- Updates and lobby chat — announcements, chat and polls
📺 Multi monitoring
The clock on the big screen, controlled from your phone. Connecting displays, keeping them in sync, the command centre, and which devices actually work.
- Connect a TV with a code — uht.app/connect, and what the screen shows
- The Add Display dialog — the controller side, and your remembered screens
💼 Commercial features
For anyone running tournaments as part of a business:
- Collecting rake — charging a tournament fee
- Tournament reports — the PDF record, with profitability
👤 UHT account & licence
- UHT account benefits — what an account adds, and what you risk without one
- Pricing — plan costs, and how to change or cancel
- Commercial licensing — when a Commercial licence is required
🖌️ Display designer
Build your own display from a blank canvas: components, placeholders, conditions, layers and fonts — plus a step-by-step first design.
🤖 AI agents (MCP)
Let Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot build display designs, tournament configurations and chip designs directly in your account:
- What the MCP server is — what agents can (and can't) do
- Connect your agent — setup for every major agent
- Example prompts — proven asks to copy
🔧 Troubleshooting
- Something not working? — the common fixes
- Connection test — diagnose a device's network
- Collect debug logs — capture what a device is actually doing
A few things worth knowing up front
UHT is free, and the free version is the real thing. No ads, no trackers, no account required. Paid plans exist for bigger games and commercial use — see Pricing.
Your tournaments live in your browser unless you make a free account. That matters more than it sounds: see UHT account benefits.
Designs differ in what they can show. If you configure something your chosen display can't draw, UHT tells you in the wizard. Nothing breaks — the information simply isn't on screen.
Prefer video? The UHT YouTube channel has walkthroughs of most of this, and the relevant one is embedded at the top of each page.