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A UK tournament director app reached the App Store on 10 September 2026 with 187 listed features. This is what it is, how it differs from the TableMaster stack, and what to do about each feature.
What it is. Shuffle Up and Deal is an iPhone and iPad app for the person who runs a poker tournament. It does one job in depth, the tournament night, for home games, pub leagues and small card rooms. It has a free plan, and paid plans from £13.99 to £59.99 a month.
How it compares. It is the same tournament engine as ours, sold to the other end of the market. Of its 187 features, 69 are built in our product, 43 are partly built, 14 are planned, 48 are not built and 13 are not needed because of how our product works. It has no cash games, no staff roles, no dealer app and no player app.
What to do. Use its feature list as a checklist for running a tournament end to end at One Eyed Jacks. Six fixes come first: a random seat at registration, undo for a bust, refund of an entry, the final table redraw, clock changes during play and a seating chart for the TV. Seven decisions follow, led by an open live link, play with no internet and the home-game market.
Facts from its own site, the App Store and the UK company register.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Maker | AceRiver Studios Ltd of Poole, England. Company 17397624, incorporated 13 August 2026. |
| Timeline | First TestFlight build 31 March 2026. Paid plans 16 July. Live on the App Store 10 September. Version 1.0.4 on the store 24 September. |
| Pace | 51 changelog entries on 47 days in six months. Multi-day events went from first beta on 3 September to general release in version 1.0.4, which reached the App Store on 24 September. |
| Platform | iPhone and iPad only. Android is in development on its roadmap. The director has no web app. |
| Buyer | The tournament director. Its site names four: home games, a weekly league, the local circuit and card rooms. |
| Players | Need no app and no account. They open a shared link in a browser. |
| Price | Free for up to 20 players on 2 tables, one tournament a week. Four paid plans from £13.99 to £59.99 a month, each with a one-week trial. |
| Reach so far | 9 ratings on the UK App Store, all five stars. None yet on the US store, where the app is also listed. Its reviews and its demo page name the Nuts Poker League UK. |
| How it is built | Data lives on the device first and syncs to its cloud. Its privacy policy names Clerk for sign-in, PowerSync for sync, Neon for the database, RevenueCat for subscriptions and Google Gemini for its AI assistant. The App Store bundle ID is app.replit.shuffleupanddeal, which points to Replit's app builder. |
| Marketing | A public feature list, changelog and roadmap, and a blog with a new tournament director article on each of the six days to 1 October. |
Both products run a tournament from first entry to final payout. They differ in who buys, which devices they use and where the data lives.
Shuffle Up names four buyers on its site, from home games to card rooms. TableMaster starts at the card room. The dashed box is TM-118, a home edition that has sat in our backlog since May 2026.
| Job | Shuffle Up and Deal | TableMaster |
|---|---|---|
| Run the tournament | One iPhone or iPad app. Staff share the director's account, on 2 to 15 devices by plan | RoomDirector in any browser. Each staff member has a login and a role |
| The big screen | AirPlay or a cable from the director's device, which must stay unlocked | A Display app on a small PC, paired by a code, that restarts itself |
| The dealer | A roadmap item, Dealer Companion | A Dealer app on a tablet: seats, busts, service calls and downs |
| The player's phone | A browser link with no sign-in | DirtyStack Poker on iOS and Android, with an account |
| The front door | A roadmap item, guest registration by QR code | A check-in kiosk |
| The public page | A venue page on shuffleup.co.uk | A room page on dirtystackpoker.com, and Live Cards on the room's own website |
| Cash games | None | Stakes, waitlists, live tables and joining a list from the phone |
| Where the data lives | On the device first, then synced | On one server, pushed live to every screen |
| With no internet | Keeps working | Stops, except the clocks on the TVs |
The overlap is the card room that runs only tournaments. For that room Shuffle Up is a credible, low-cost answer today. A room that also runs cash games, counts dealer downs or must show who did what has no answer from it.
Thirteen areas. Each gap was confirmed by a search of our code on 1 October 2026. The tag names the action or decision under What to do.
Undo for recent actions, a rollback to an earlier state, a withdrawal with a refund choice, and a swap of two seated players.
None of these. A bust made in error stays a bust, and only TableMaster's own admin app can remove an entry.
An opening draw, a separate draw for the button, and a redraw when the final table forms.
Desk registration puts each player in the lowest open seat at the least-full table. Only the auto-seat path draws at random. There is no button draw and no redraw. The Poker TDA rules call for random seats.
Skip, jump or adjust a level, and edit the blind structure while the event runs.
Pause, resume and jump one level. Time cannot be added or removed, and the structure locks when registration opens.
A seating chart screen, a registration screen with the late-registration countdown, draw and knockout animations, five announcer voices, themes, the venue logo and a ticker.
The clock, a leaderboard and content pages. Room branding on the clock is drawn as mockups (TM-746). The printed ticket and the player app carry the seat.
Re-entry limits, add-ons with their own chips and fees, bonus chips at registration, a waitlist when seats run out, and a guarantee with the overlay shown.
Rebuys at a set price, and a guarantee. Add-ons are held in the backlog (TM-863). One Eyed Jacks uses a staff bonus, which the desk cannot award.
Starting flights, carry-forward of qualifiers, bag-up of chip counts, public flight recaps and one combined result. It went from first beta to general release in three weeks.
The design is written (TM-74) and waits on four questions. Their shipped version gives an answer to all four.
Each bust records who did it. That feeds knockout leaders, rivalries, head-to-head pages and the event recap.
A bust records the table and seat only. Bounty, progressive and mystery formats exist in setup with no knockout record behind them.
Equal, chip-chop, manual and ICM deals, with the deal saved on the event.
Staff type the agreed amounts per place at settlement. Nothing works the numbers out.
One link shows the clock, a seating chart with search by name, the field, payouts and projected league points. No app and no account.
The same facts sit in the player app and on a web clock, both behind a free account. Ours updates faster: about a second, against up to 30 seconds on theirs.
The app keeps working with no connection and syncs later. Its changelog shows the cost: repeated fixes for entries counted twice and for seats that disagreed between devices.
RoomDirector stops when the room's internet stops. The TVs keep counting.
Named leagues and seasons, a qualifying line, standings projected during a live event, accolades, and a public league page with season statistics.
One points board per room, with strong scoring styles. Named seasons are next on our plan. There are no projected standings.
A chat that answers from the 2026 Poker TDA rules with citations, walks a dispute step by step and follows the house rules.
None.
A download, a free plan, a one-week trial and a public price list.
TableMaster sets a room up by hand. Room plans wait on a price list.
Fifteen areas that their feature list and demo pages do not cover, or that appear only on their roadmap.
Their published prices on 1 October 2026.
| Plan | A month | A year | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Game | Free | 20 players, 2 tables, 1 tournament a week. Works offline | |
| Tournament Director | £13.99about $19 | £139.99about $185 | 3 tournaments a week, 1 venue and league, 2 devices |
| TD Pro | £24.99about $33 | £249.99about $331 | 5 tournaments a week, 3 venues and leagues, 3 devices. Adds live share links, custom displays and ledgers |
| TD Elite | £39.99about $53 | £399.99about $529 | 10 tournaments a week, unlimited venues and leagues, 2 events at once, 5 devices. Adds multi-day events and priority support |
| Card Room | £59.99about $79 | £599.99about $794 | Unlimited tournaments, 5 events at once, 15 devices |
Every paid plan includes casting to a TV, leagues, the AI assistant, cloud backup, rebuys and add-ons, voice announcements, player statistics and exports. Dollar figures are a straight conversion at the European Central Bank reference rate of 1.3234 on 1 October 2026. The US App Store sets its own prices.
A card room can run unlimited tournaments on 15 devices for about $79 a month. It is a public price for the tournament part of what RoomDirector does. TableMaster has no room price list yet.
Sixteen items from their public roadmap. Two had shipped by 1 October 2026.
| Their item | Their status | Ours |
|---|---|---|
| Android app | In development | RoomDirector runs in any browser. The player app is on iOS and Android. |
| Dealer Companion | Development ready | Built: the Dealer app. |
| Player app | Development ready | Built: DirtyStack Poker, on the App Store since 30 September 2026. |
| Apple Watch companion | In development | Not built, and not planned. |
| Guest registration by QR code | Planned | Partial: a door kiosk checks players in by phone number. Player self-registration is TM-10. |
| Expanded bounty formats | Planned | Built in setup: bounty, progressive and mystery formats. No knockout record yet. |
| Multi-day tournaments and flights | Shipped in version 1.0.4 | Planned: TM-74. |
| Better handling of several live tournaments | Planned | Built: a switcher when several events run. |
| More rule sets for the AI assistant | Planned | Not built. |
| Player email reports | Planned | Not built. Results and points reach the player's profile in the app. |
| Branded external displays | Shipped in version 1.0.3 | Planned: TM-746. |
| Chromecast and more casting | Planned | Not needed: the TV runs its own app. |
| Detailed fee allocations | Development ready | Not built. It follows TM-761. |
| Action-aware pot calculator | Development ready | Not built. |
| Tournament statistics page | Development ready | Not built. |
| Player chip-count tracking | Planned | Planned: TM-774. |
Three of their next products are ones we have already built: a dealer app, a player app and Android support. Their roadmap moves toward our stack.
Six fixes, nine plan items and seven decisions. The IDs match the tags above and the calls in the full list below.
| ID | Item | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Draw a random open seat at desk registration | The first player to register gets the lowest seat at the least-full table. The auto-seat path already draws at random, so the rule exists in our code. The Poker TDA rules call for random seats. |
| A2 | Undo a bust | A wrong bust on a busy night has no fix at the desk today. |
| A3 | Withdraw or refund an entry at the desk | Only TableMaster's own admin app can remove an entry. |
| A4 | Final table: redraw the seats, draw the button, set the table size | An App Store review names these two draws as the biggest time saver in their app. TM-841, the Final Table label at a one-table game, belongs with this work. |
| A5 | Change the clock during play | Add or remove time, and correct a level after registration opens. |
| A6 | A seating chart page for the TV | The seats are already in our database. A player without the app has only the printed ticket. |
| ID | Item | Why |
|---|---|---|
| B1 | Record who knocked out whom | Our bounty formats have no knockout record. The same record opens rivalries and knockout statistics in the player app. |
| B2 | Deeper entry rules: a re-entry limit, an entry cap with an alternates list, bonus chips, added cash and an overlay figure | One Eyed Jacks uses a staff bonus. Add-ons stay in the backlog as TM-863. |
| B3 | Deal numbers at settlement: chip chop and ICM | Staff can already type agreed amounts. The maths is the missing part. |
| B4 | TV polish: room branding (TM-746), a hide-money switch, the winner on the TV and a sound switch | Each is small, and the branding is already drawn. |
| B5 | Seasons: named seasons, a qualifying line, a rule summary players can read, and projected points during a live event | Named seasons are next on our own plan. |
| B6 | Results a room can share: a recap card for each event, and room records on the room page | Players already have a share card for their own result. The room has none. |
| B7 | A printable QR poster for each room | It puts the player app in front of every player in the room. |
| B8 | Two small floor tools: a chip-race flag on a break, and a swap of two seated players | Both are routine on a tournament floor. |
| B9 | A calendar file on the public event page | The player app already adds an event to the phone's calendar. |
Other rows marked Plan are already tracked: player self-registration (TM-10), add-ons (TM-863), chip counts (TM-774), the Live Activity (TM-625), kiosk check-ins at the desk, room profile editing, reports and exports, live-data warnings, and the assistant for a room's own numbers.
| ID | Decision | What bears on it |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Decide whether a live link shared by the room opens without a sign-in | Theirs opens at once, and an App Store review names the live tracker as its favourite part. Ours has asked for a free account since a product decision of July 2026, to grow accounts. Recommended: open the clock, the structure and the payouts, and keep the seat lookup and results in the app. |
| C2 | Decide what must keep working when the room's internet drops | Theirs runs a whole event offline. Ours stops, and only the TVs keep counting. Recommended: keep every clock running through a drop and say so on screen, with a phone hotspot as the desk's fallback. A full offline desk is a rebuild, and their changelog shows what sync costs. |
| C3 | Decide whether to enter the home-game and league market (TM-118) | A home edition has sat in our backlog since May 2026. Shuffle Up now serves that market with a free plan and a six-month head start. Recommended: leave TM-118 parked and keep the room as the product. |
| C4 | Sign off the multi-day design (TM-74) | It waits on four questions. Their shipped version gives a working answer to each one, in the table below. |
| C5 | Decide whether an AI rules assistant belongs in our apps | Theirs answers from the public TDA rules with citations. It helps a volunteer director more than a trained floor. Recommended: not now. Revisit it with the planned assistant for a room's own numbers. |
| C6 | Set the room price list | Their top plan is public: £59.99 a month for unlimited tournaments on 15 devices. |
| C7 | Keep money records with TM-761 | Their Club Book keeps ledgers and moves no money. Whether TableMaster records money at all is already an open decision. |
| Question in TM-74 | Our proposal | What they shipped |
|---|---|---|
| Does the best stack go forward when a player qualifies twice? | Yes, by default | Yes, by default. |
| Do players see flight results? | Staff only in the first version | Yes: a flight summary, a public recap page and a chip counts card. |
| Is percent paid based on total entries or unique players? | Total entries | The whole event's field, frozen when the field closes. Unique players is a separate figure on the TV. |
| Is the flight list fixed, or can flights be added later? | Fixed in the first version | Flights can be added, cancelled or edited during the event, behind an edit lock. This came five days after the first beta. |
Their feature list, in their groups and their order. Their descriptions are shortened.
Compiled 1 October 2026 from Shuffle Up and Deal's public site, its App Store listing and its UK company record, and from TableMaster's code and feature inventory. It does not cover hands-on use of their app or anything they have not published.