Hi Scopers,
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and playing online poker inside.
We’ve been working hard to add more sites to our line-up and this includes Mac as well.
Added Boyles Poker, True Poker for Mac, PartyPoker (Italian) for Mac, bet365.ee, Sportium Poker.
SharkScope Desktop, still the only HUD with SharkScope statistics!
Hi Scopers,
Pokerstars Zoom has now added antes, and we added support for it.
Depending on which side of the fence you’re on you’re saying “Wasn’t this fast enough?” or as others say “The faster the better”.
SharkScope Desktop, still the only HUD with SharkScope statistics!
Hi Scopers,
MicroGaming is no more, but iPoker has taken up the slack.
Great news for players of Microgaming players now they have a larger pool of players and bigger guarantees.
With so many sites doing the migration, you’ll have many choices
These are now supported as the newest members of iPoker!
Betsson, Grossvenor, Red Star, Coolbet, PAF
Hi Scopers,
Joining the
Also included is Romanian standout Netbet.ro
Both sites are now available to configure in the HUD.
SharkScope Desktop, still the only HUD with SharkScope statistics!
SharkScope’s Desktop HUD and hand tracker now work fully with all-in cash out hands.
PokerStars recently introduced “all-in cash-out” on some tables. Here’s how it works:
When an all-in situation occurs in a cash game and players’ hands are revealed (before the river and with no more action pending), we calculate each hand’s probability to win the pot and assign a cash out value to each hand, based on those probabilities.
Players in the all-in pot will be presented with the option to cash out their hand and receive the cash out amount, risk-free. If they decline, they will continue to contest the entire pot (and any side pots in which they are involved) as usual.
Once a player chooses to cash out they will no longer be eligible to contest any portion of the pot, and will receive the offered amount added to their stack immediately.
Players declining the cash out option will still need the best hand at showdown to win the pot, even if all their opponents have cashed out.
Well, it’s your call, or fold. That’s because by definition it is a “minus EV” feature.
PokerStars writes:
The cash out value offered is calculated per the formula below:
Hand value = (pot size – rake) x probability of winning
They call it hand value, but it is also the exact formula for Equity Value.
PokerStars doesn’t give you the full hand value:
We apply a 1% cash out fee on value of your hand (not the entire pot), deducted prior to offering the cash out amount.
So all-in cash out gives you precisely 1% below your equity value (EV).
Good poker players know they need to take every chance to maximize EV. A feature offered by PokerStars that eats away at EV is, in my opinion, something you should avoid.
TigerGaming on the Chico Network Sponsors SharkScope Achievements
As our SharkScope Achievements new host TigerGaming, on the Chico Network is giving away a stunning $3000 in total just for playing on TigerGaming. $1500 will come by being in the top 5 on our TigerGaming achievements leader board and $1500 in a freeroll on the TigerGaming site, the second Sunday following the end of the month. All you have to do is play on TigerGaming and enter your screen name to the Sharkscope Achievements leaderboard to be eligible.
If you’re not on TigerGaming, Join Now as July’s achievement challenge is about to heat up and now’s the time to earn those achievements.
5 is the magic number because the top 5 earn CASH and with just 5 Achievement points you are automatically entered into the Freeroll tournament on TigerGaming!
When all is said and done the total in free money is $3000.
Remember, all you have to do is enter your screen name if you’re a TigerGaming player and if you’re not, well what are you waiting for? Sign up NOW!
SharkScope is proud to have a partner in the achievement challenge and we’re thrilled with the way TigerGaming has responded. We certainly suggest you play on TigerGaming!
Team SharkScope
Team TigerGaming
Happy New Year everyone, we hope it was a good and profitable year.
Our 2017 Leaderboards are now closed and this year we have all new names atop the 4 main leader boards!
For profit and after all that’s the bottom line, the big moneyin the top 4 places all had over 1 million in winnings. In first was Svzff at 1.78 million followed by Epiphany77 at 1.23 million then came Sordykrd 1.18 and our last millionaire was Joshuah333 with 1.13
Then we see that there are great players all over the world. Represented are Estonia, Ukraine, Malta and Mexico. Noqqx led the wat with a total of $315,967 followed by Sauron 1 at $253,181 then Zimiso7 at $229,162 and in 4th place was at $144,451
In the count catagory, we are only listing the first place in this post. Slayerv1fan played 202,004. Where does he get the time? He might need a new mouse a month!!
The best 500 streak average profit belongs to a WPN player named V2the3 who averaged a very respectful $153. The 100 count category was led by Stevie444 from Mexico at $616.96
One of my favorite categories is Single Table Wins in a row. Who wouldn’t love to win 10 in a row? Ajax109 accomplished just that.
Want to see your favorite category? Head on over to the Sharkscope Leaderboard page and check it out. Some of the accomplishments are amazing!
Want to be listed on the Sharkscope Leaderboard page, go there now and submit your name.
Don’t forget to checkout the New SharkScope Desktop. This all in one tool proved to be a great success in 2017 and more networks and refinements are due in 2018, so get yours today!
Have a GREAT 2018 and the 2018 leader boards are now open!!!
SharkScope Team
Amidst all the changes of losing a country we were thinking it would be interesting to see the effects that it caused. So we put together Country by Country numbers from Pokerstars SNGs.
We started with the previous month of July and then compared it to August. Turned out the results we saw created a very interesting view.
It was very clear to see how the departure of just one country can affect a global market using Player Profit as a matrix..
Here we see what “SNG Player Profit by Country” was in July.
The Top Ten lines up like this:
1. Venezuela
2. Colombia
3. Serbia
4. Belarus, 5.Uzbekistan, 6.Bosnia & Herzegovina, 7.Ukraine, 8.Poland, 9.Argentina and 10.The Philippines.
There’s probably questions in your mind as to why some of the countries that you were expecting to see, or you may live in, aren’t on the list.
Can you figure out why? Will they show up on August’s Leaderboard?
Let’s see!
In August where Colombia, our 2nd ranked country in July, unhappily disappeared from the list.
The top 3,came in this way:
1st Venezuela
2nd Georgia
3rd Bosnia & Herzegovina
But did Colombia still play a role?
The answer is yes, because many of the players relocated to neighboring countries.
We saw upward trends in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia.
It’s also suggests that by adding players from Columbia, it may have helped Venezuela keep it’s number 1 position.
More to come!
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Real-Time Leaderboards Added For Every Tournament Type At SharkScope
SharkScope has always delivered the most comprehensive yearly leaderboards in online poker, updating thousands of top players by various stake ranges and game types on a daily basis.
However, SharkScope is now releasing a new leaderboard system that can do more. More details. Faster updates. More comprehensive rankings. Today we launch our real-time monthly rankings that expand to all tournament types covered by SharkScope. These monthly rankings are updated every time a tournament is recorded in the SharkScope database, providing users with up-to-the-minute ranking accuracy.
New Usage
The “Leaderboards” tab in the player section shows that player’s rankings in the 5 most popular tournament types they have played, in addition to the number of players who have played that tournament type and what fraction of those are profitable. (An example is shown below.) We hope these new leaderboard additions will provide a whole new dimension helping SharkScope’s users to track progress, set goals, and improve their games.
SharkScope also adds more networks to our coverage.
SharkScope expands it’s coverage again, adding Chico, Pokerdom & Europebet! Covering Chico brings a new dimension because it’s the only site we now cover that has it all plus Chinese Poker.
Add to that the mostly Russian site PokerDom and that includes the Pineapple version of Chinese poker along with Hold Em.
Lastly Europebet which is mostly Georgian and has great Hold Em action.
We continue to strive to give you the most information in Online Poker!
Welcome Scopers to our Newest Innovation
Have you ever played in a tournament and wondered if two of your opponents were working together in some way? Have you ever looked at the performance profile of a heads-up player and think their record was too perfect to be possible? SharkScope has developed a sophisticated collusion detection tool that can help answer such questions.
SharkScope defines “collusion” as the cooperation between players in online poker tournaments using communication and information-sharing outside the boundaries of normal online poker. By communicating privately and sharing cards, two players can gain an unfair advantage over other competitors—this type of collusion is called team play. Another type of collusion is chip dumping, where one player purposely loses chips to another player. Two players might engage in chip dumping, for example, if one person owns both accounts and wants to collect extra bonus rewards by opening more accounts and then consolidating money back into one account.
How SharkScope Detects Collusion
By examining the pair-wise performance characteristics of tournament participants when playing together vs. playing apart, we’re able to detect outlying results showing significant performance improvement when certain pairs play together–far beyond what would be expected by chance. It is important to note that we identify suspects for collusive play using indirect data—we can observe how much better players do when playing with specific individuals, but we can’t catch them “red-handed’; we have no way of knowing how the players may be communicating together and what information they may or may not be sharing.
Detecting Collusion Using the SharkScope Wedsite
For SharkScope subscribers, the process is simple. When accessing the results of a single-table tournament, a Detect Collusion button option appears. Clicking activates a process that finds possible collusion suspects and, if found, the option to report them. Once reported you’ll get a confirmation email, and we’ll then investigate the collusion claim and forward the relevant details to the poker site if it checks out.
* There was no collusion detected in the above example.
Try it for yourself and feel more secure with SharkScope’s newest feature!
**As of now this service is limited to Gold subscribers and above. The cost for using the service is 10 searches.
The SharkScope Team, offering the world’s most accurate online poker data since 2004.
