Poker Dealer's Toolkit (The only app a poker dealer will ever need)
Poker Dealer's Toolkit (PDTK) is the definitive app for poker dealers,
brushes and supervisors. Keep track of your income, expenses, tables and
a whole lot more. A must for dealers only on Android.
Settings (Set up and track multiple casinos for):
- Name of Casino (Such as Rio)
- City of Casino (such as Las Vegas)
- Employee ID (so you won't forget)
- Tip Sharing (deducted for brushes)
- 401K (Deducted and Matched)
- Forced Deducted Lunch Time Minutes (In case they take your
pay out automatically for lunch)
- Down Start Times (set any 30 minute combo such as :00 & :30
or :13 & 43)
- Tax Calculator (help determine your tax rate)
- Casino Hourly Pay Rate (the casino may pay out hourly pay
differently that tips)
- Last Day of Pay Week (different casinos have different pay
weeks)
- E-Mail Address (to send yourself database backups)
- Cash Hourly Pay Rate and Tips Frequency (Some casinos pay
different rates for cash and tournaments)
- Tournament Hourly Pay Rate and Tips Payment Frequency
- Supervisor Hourly Pay Rate and Tips Payment Frequency
- Sit & Go Hourly Pay Rate, 3 different bonus amount rates
and tips payment frequency (some casinos pay out bonuses for dealing
sit/goes)
DB Utils lets you have multiple database groups for multiple events or
casinos.
Event and Transaction IDs (Database of different events & transaction
ID. (Borgata-5 could be an event at the Borgata with the 5th receipt for
expenses. Each is different so you can track them)
Calculator (Quick link to the calculator)
Camera (Change from front to back camera, flash modes, effects and
different sizes):
- Pay Stub (Take a picture of your pay stubs and keep in one
folder)
- Schedule (If you can't remember when you are supposed to
work, take a picture of your schedule here)
- Income (If you turn in cash tips, then take a picture of
the receipt just in case they don't pay the proper amount)
- Expenses (Take a picture of a expense receipt and link it
to the database. Whenever you look at a record, you will see a picture
of the receipt right there)
Convert and E-Mail (Convert your income, expenses and string tracker
databases over to .CSV format and E-Mail it to yourself as a backup.
View the whole database in raw form on Windows using Microsoft Excel or
on Android using KingSoft Office (or really any spreadsheet). Tells you
when you last converted you database as a reminder to back them up.
String Tracker:
- Keep track of every 30 minute down all day long. Quickly
put in the table number, time and type of game dealt. You can save this
to the database to view and modify at a later date. If you ever are
shorted a down, use this tool to prove where you were at. Yes, casinos
do short dealers downs and money all of the time,
Income (Keep track of every possible income area that you can think of.
Save to the database to view and modify at any time.):
- Date and Time In & Date and Time Out
- Cash Tips Amount, Hours Worked, Downs Worked & Hourly Pay
Rate
- Tournament Down Rate, Tips, Hours Worked & Hourly Pay Rate
- Supervisor Tips, Hours & Hourly Pay Rate
- Free Time Hours (Breaks), Downs & Hourly Pay
- Sit and Go Tips, Hours, Small/Mid/High Bonus Amounts
- Tip Sharing
- 401K Deducted and Matched
- Taxes
- Hours and Minutes worked
- Estimated Net Pay
Expenses (Keep all of your receipts and deduct all business expenses
from your taxes.):
- Date (such as 9/6/2015)
- Weekday (such as Tuesday)
- Event ID (such as WPT)
- Transaction ID (such as 16)
- Amount
- Company (Where did you buy this form)
- Category (such as food)
- Do you have the receipt?
- Location (where did you purchase this from)
- Picture (Link a picture of the receipt so you have a backup
in case you loose the original)
Poker Dealer's Tool
Kit for Android requires camera permission. PDTK has an area
called 'Camera'. There you can take pictures and save them to your
device. This is included so 1) you can take pictures of receipts
for easy organization, 2) take pictures of work schedules and 3) take
pictures things like gas pump amounts when the gas printer is not
working.
BLOG OF UPDATES
- 01/30/2018 - The
smaller videos were combined into 1 long video and was added to YouTube.
This allows just 1 link for the instructions.
Alphabet
Google
Android: Works on most Android
64-bit devices from Android 4.4 (KitKat-Year 2013)
(API 19) or newer.
Alphabet
Chrome: Most Chromebook (Chrome OS)
models starting from late 2016 should have the Google Play Store
pre-installed to be able to download and run Android apps. Also,
there are some Chromebook models that will run Linux apps as well.
Some older models are being upgraded as well for Android and Linux
support. Check first before you buy.
Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad):
Should run on Apple iOS 8.0 (Year 2014) or newer.
Apple Macintosh: Will run on Mac OSX 10.11
(El Capitan-2015) or newer. However, it may run on as early as Mac
O SX 10.9 (Mavericks-Year 2013). Requires a graphics card with
DX10 capabilities or better.
Linux: Look at the last few
characters of the filename. ".x86" is the 32-bit Linux version.
".x86_64" is the 64-bit version. After clicking on the icon to run
the game, a pop-up may appear. Say 'Yes' to make it an executable
file and run. Minimum Ubunti 12.04 (Precise Pangolin-Year 2012) or
newer or Steam OS. Requires a graphics card with DX10 capabilities
or better.
Microsoft
Windows x86_64: Has both 32-bit and
64-bit Windows versions. It will work on Windows 7 SP1 (Year 2011)
or newer (7 SP1, 8, 8.1 and 10). Requires a graphics card with
DX10 capabilities or better.
Microsoft Windows 10 Universal: Works on all
Microsoft Windows 10 devices (laptops, desktops, tablets or phones).
Has both 32-bit, 64-bit and ARM Windows 10 versions (Year 2015).
Requires a graphics card with DX10 capabilities or better. It
will not work on Windows operating systems before
Windows 10.
