For venues
Put the line on the screen.
Winner stays on is already how your room runs. CueLibre makes the line visible, the results honest and the arguments disappear — one screen, the code on the table, and nothing for your staff to referee. When you want a bigger night, the same screen runs the tournament.
CueLibre charges venues, not players. Players play free, and we never touch the money that passes between players — not the pot, not a cut, not escrow.
The running room
The line, on a screen the room can see
Players scan the code on the table, sign in on their own phone and take a place in the line. The screen shows the order. Nobody asks the bar who is next.
Winner stays on, by itself
When a game ends the winner keeps the table, the loser comes off, and the next player is called — on the screen and by email. The result is confirmed by the players; a disagreement climbs a short ladder, with the next people in line as witnesses.
Stepping out, coming back
A player who needs a moment taps pause from their email and keeps their place for a few games; one who has left can decline their turn in one tap, and the line moves on.
Your hours, your rules
Set the days and hours the free line runs and how it closes for the night. A staff console behind your own PIN removes no-shows and, if it comes to it, keeps a player off the line.
The board between games
The screen rotates: the line, the two players at the table with their record against each other, and the room’s own records — most wins, most games, best run — tonight, this week, this month, all time.
Counts, never a clock
The screen and every player’s page show how many are ahead — a number that is always true. It never guesses a time, because a guessed time is the first thing a room stops trusting.
Tournament nights, on the same screen
Entries from their phones
Open a tournament and players enter from the same phone they joined the line with, until the posted start. Singles, doubles or teams; a straight knockout, groups into a knockout, or a race.
The draw on the wall
Seeded or random, best of one, three or five, across as many tables as you give it, with late entries and byes handled. The bracket goes up on the wall display; results are confirmed at the table; the standings are on their own page.
Prizes you declare
If you put up a prize, the screen shows what you declared for each place. You provide it and you award it. CueLibre shows it and never holds it.
The line is told
When a tournament takes a table, the people waiting on it are emailed that their spot was cleared, why, and that the line opens again when the tournament releases the table — and, in the last quarter of an hour before the start, that there is still time to enter.
What it never does
- Never guesses how long anyone will wait — counts only.
- Never sends a text message — players get an email when they are up.
- Never shows a player’s email or phone to anyone, including you. Usernames only.
- Never lists your room as a CueLibre room until you claim it. An unclaimed listing only says the room exists and has tables.
- Never touches the money that passes between players. That is a design decision, not a roadmap item.
What we ask: fifteen minutes
One screen, one table, one month, nothing to sign. We bring the screen on a slow shift, set it beside a table and leave it running. If your regulars don’t love it, we take it down. Ask for the visit and a human answers.
The founding offer, in shape
The first rooms to run CueLibre are founding rooms, and the offer to them has three parts. The figure is not on this page — it comes with the visit, once we have seen your room.
- One Founding price. A single upfront number for the room, not a meter that runs.
- A founding-room discount on support, maintenance and management that stays with the room while it is with us.
- Founders’ rates on sponsor commissions. When CueLibre brings a sponsor to your screen, a founding room keeps more of what its own screen earns.
Read how the line works from a player’s side on the FAQ, or see the room’s own pages at venues.