ACR Poker announced a free Final Table Replayer on 8 September. It plays completed tournament final tables back hand by hand with every player's hole cards visible, runs in a browser, and needs no account, download or deposit.
ACR says tables are added to the library automatically once an event finishes, with no manual upload and no selection process picking featured events. That claim is what separates it from a hand history.
It also stops where its name says it does. What that leaves out shapes most of what the tool is useful for.
What the ACR Poker Final Table Replayer Covers
The ACR FT Replayer is a search interface over a library of completed tables. Filters narrow by date and by buy-in, and the front page groups replays into Most Viewed, High Stakes Action, Most Recent Series and Most Liked.
Players who reach a table can go back afterwards and find their own. Anyone else can browse without playing on the site.
Automatic publication is the detail worth noting. A curated library shows what an operator chooses to show, while an automatic one shows the schedule as it actually played.
- Cost: free, with no ACR Poker account, software download or deposit required.
- Access: runs in any browser, and is open to people who do not play on the site.
- Search: filters for date and buy-in, plus Most Viewed, High Stakes Action, Most Recent Series and Most Liked rails.
- Information shown: all hole cards for every player, throughout the replay, including hands that never reached showdown.
What You Can See That the Players Could Not
Hole cards stay visible for the whole replay, not just at showdown. Every fold, failed bluff and abandoned three-bet can be reviewed with the holding attached.
The value sits in the hands that never finished. Showdown holdings are already recoverable from a hand history, so the new information is almost entirely in the folds.
Three-bets that took the pot down, blind-versus-blind battles and short-stack shove ranges all become checkable. So does the opposite case, where a player who seemed to have it every time did not.
Late tables are also where how ICM pressure shapes decisions hardest, because every elimination moves real money between the remaining stacks. Watching those folds face up is a different exercise from reading a payout sheet.
The CEO Went First
The launch produced an early test case at the top of the company. ACR Poker CEO Phil Nagy, playing as Justsomefish72, reached two of them on 6 September in tournaments carrying his own name.
He finished second in the $10,300 Phil's Thrill for $78,000, then fifth in the $2,650 Mini Phil's Thrill for $10,800. Both runs are now replayable with the cards face up.
| Event | Buy-in | Finish | Entries | Prize pool | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil's Thrill | $10,300 | 2nd | 26 | $260,000 | $78,000 |
| Mini Phil's Thrill | $2,650 | 5th | $90,000 | $10,800 | |
| Combined | $88,800 |
Nagy set the Phil's Thrill events up to give players a standing shot at the site's high-stakes pool. Playing them himself is the point rather than a side effect.
The $10,300 drew only 26 entries for a $260,000 prize pool. A field that small is unusually easy to scrutinise. Mini Phil's Thrill is the same event John Kim won it in August.
Down $600,000 on His Own Network
Nagy tied the tool to a question players ask about any site whose owner sits in its games. In ACR's announcement he argued it adds to player confidence, because anyone can go back through every hand once play ends.
He then volunteered a figure against himself, saying SharkScope had him “down more than $600,000 in scheduled WPN tournaments”.
That number is worth reading precisely. SharkScope logs tournament results rather than the hands inside them, and it covers scheduled events rather than every format. Our review sets out what SharkScope actually tracks and where its data stops.
- Scale: more than 900 million tournament results across 50-plus poker networks, collected since 2007.
- Source: publicly available tournament data pulled from poker site lobbies, updated once each event ends.
- Blind spots: cash games, and the hands played inside any tournament it records.
Where the Archive Stops
The tool covers the last table of an event. It does not reach the levels before it, which is where most of a tournament is decided.
| Shown in the replay | Not shown |
|---|---|
| The final table, hand by hand | Every level played before the final table |
| All hole cards, including hands that never reached showdown | The money bubble and the pay jumps leading to it |
| Bet sizing, shoves and folds once the table is set | The rest of the field, eliminated earlier in the event |
That makes it a partial record rather than a full account of how anyone got there. A player who ran up a stack on day one and then folded for two hours appears only for the folding.
What this is and is not. Treat it as a study library with an unusual amount of post-event detail, not as verification of anything that happened before the last table was set. We have asked ACR to confirm exactly which events and formats are included.
OSS XL Is Filling It Up Fast
The timing means the library is growing quickly. OSS XL is part of eight multi-day tournaments still running at the room this month, and its buy-in spread is what gives the archive its range.
| Stage | Date | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| OSS XL runs | 6 to 29 September | 336 events, more than $50 million guaranteed |
| Nosebleed Stakes | 21 to 28 September | 10 events at $5,200, $10,300 and $25,500 |
| Main Event final tables | 29 September | $2.5 million and $2 million guaranteed |
A $1.65 table and a $25,500 table are recorded on the same terms. Mini Phil's Thrill PLO joined the Sunday schedule on 6 September, drawing 54 entries for a $135,000 prize pool, and now runs each week.
What to Watch For Next
The series has its biggest tables still to come. Both seven-figure Main Events finish on 29 September, alongside the 25th Anniversary Tournament.
Those are the replays worth waiting for. A $2.5 million finish played out with every hole card later exposed is a study object of a kind that has been rare in online poker.
For results from the Main Events and the Anniversary finish at the end of the month, follow our poker news page.
