This is a great blinds poker timer...for the price. It also doubles as a Dealer button, which is kind of handy, but probably won't get used for that much, because it's about the same size as a hockey puck, just not as thick.

+ It gives you 10 different rounds where you can set the small blind, the big blind, and the ante, with the option to set a different time for each round. Very cool.

+ It doesn't have set in amounts that you have to have the blinds at. If you want a different kind of play where the small blind is 20 and the big is 45, you can do that!

- The buttons are kind of hard to hold down and you don't get to set each digit, you have to hold it down to get to the number you're looking for, which means to go to 200, you have to hold it down for about 30 seconds for it to get there.

- If you want to insert a round in after you have set all the rounds, you will have to reset all the rounds above it. Say you want it to go 10/20, then 20/40, then 25/50, then set those as three different rounds--to put in the 20/40 round after the fact, you'll have to reset 25/50 to 20/40, the next round down to 25/50, and so on.

- A lot of poker timers (albeit the more expensive ones) have a one-minute-before-round-change warning alarm of some kind. This one doesn't. Nor does it have any alternate sound besides the lame digital beep that sounds like a bomb in a poorly produced TV show.

All in all, this is the cheapest timer that gives you the options to set blinds on it that I've seen. I would definitely recommend it.

This dealer button is great. Ten programmable rounds, small blind, big blind, ante - its all there and all customizable. We live overseas and play in a foreign currency so the lack of any monetary units was nice - for us. The only issue I have is the size of the button. It's about 3inchs in diameter (not measuring it at the moment so three seems about right) which is a bit big on the table. That's just a personal preference though. If you're looking for a dealer button with some juice that does more then just count down the round time this is the one you're looking for.