Player FAQ

Scan the code on the screen by the table, sign in, and you are in the line. The screen shows the line in order, and your own page shows how many players are ahead of you — a count, never a clock. When it is your turn, the screen calls you, and you get an email.

Winner stays on. The player who wins keeps the table, the other player comes off, and the next player in the line racks up.

A tournament takes the whole table. When it starts, the line is cancelled and everyone in it gets an email saying so. The players already on the table finish their rack first.

Entries stay open until the posted start time, and the screen shows that time as a clock time for the venue — for example, until 7:30 pm. If you are in the line when a tournament is about to start and you have not entered, you get one last-chance email before it begins.

Venues post their tournaments on the tournaments page — filter by town or venue, open one, and enter from its board. In doubles you name a partner, and the pairing counts once your partner confirms it; a team enters the same way, with every player confirming their own place. You can withdraw any time until the posted start time.

Some venues keep a few open spots claimable into the early rounds — the board says so when they do. Everything runs under your username, same as the line, and if prizes are listed, the venue provides and awards them.

Singles, doubles, and teams of two to seven — in a team match the two sides play a full card of games against each other, and the side that takes more of the card wins the match. The venue picks the shape: a knockout bracket where each match is one game or a best of three or five, or a group stage where everyone plays everyone in their group and the top of each group goes into a knockout — the venue sets the group size, how many times each pair meets, and how many go through. You can step through every shape on the CueLibre Cup.

If a match is settled without being played — a player concedes, or never shows and the players present agree — the bracket moves on, but that is not a game and it never counts as one. Results live on the tournament’s own ranking page, not the leaderboard.

A race is the loosest shape: the table stays open, the line keeps running, and everyone who entered counts their wins toward a target. First to the target takes it — or, if the venue set an end time instead, whoever leads when the clock shows that time. Cutthroat racks count too: one win for whoever takes the rack.

Tap Leave the line on your page. If you have been called, the email that calls you also has a one-tap link to give the turn up. Either way your spot goes to the next player and you can rejoin later.

The players at the table can mark them as not here. When enough of the players in the line agree, the spot is released and the next player is called. The venue’s staff can also settle it from their console.

No. CueLibre never sends text messages. You get an email when it is your turn, the venue screen shows the line, and your own page can play a chime if you turn it on. Keep that page open and you will not miss your call.

Because nobody can know. A rack can take a few shots or a long safety battle, and a guess dressed up as a number is worse than no number. CueLibre shows counts — how many players are ahead of you and how busy the table is — and leaves the guessing to you.

Confirmed games only. A game counts once the other side confirms the result — in doubles either partner can confirm it, and in cutthroat either of the other two players can. If a game never happens — a player concedes or does not show and the match is settled as a walkover — that is not a game and it does not count for anyone.

You can read the board for tonight, this week, this month or all time — the chips at the top of the leaderboard switch between them, and every figure on a row, wins and losses and the best winning run alike, is counted inside the stretch you picked. Tournament matches are kept on the tournament’s own ranking page instead of being mixed in here, so this board stays the board for the open line.

Eight-ball singles is the default. The venue sets the game for each table, or leaves it to whoever is winning — and either way the venue plays by the venue’s own rules, which win over anything written here. A table can also run doubles, where you pick a partner and play as a pair, or a race, where the same two players keep the table rack after rack and count wins toward a target (or play it endless and see who leads). In a race, a cutthroat rack counts one win for whoever takes it.

These are the games a table can be set to, and what each one asks of you. You can rank the heads-up ones in your settings — your top pick is what a rack is recorded as when nobody has called the game.

No. We bill the venue. We never touch the players’ money — not the pot, not a cut, not escrow. That is a design decision, not a roadmap item. If a venue offers prizes for a tournament, the venue provides and awards them; CueLibre only shows what the venue has declared.