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iScope – the new SharkScope iPhone application

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iScope is an iPhone application for displaying your online poker tournament results. It connects to the SharkScope service for the best and most up to date statistics available.

Click here for a full list of features or to purchase it. You can also talk to the developer in our forums.

Win a Mark Schmid (PimpinDonks) SNG guide

SharkScopers is working with Betfair to give away two Pimpindonks SNG guides. To win, you must be the highest ranking SharkScopers players in either the micro or grand tournament in the Betfair Summer Promo.

You must sign up to Betfair as a new member through one of the links on our site (Like this one) in order to be tracked and counted as a sharkscopers member.

The Pimpindonks SNG guides is the best training tool out there for improving your SNG ROI. Mark, the teacher, has made hundreds of thousands of dollars playing SNG’s. He spills all his poker knowledge in this more then 20 hour long video series.

Leaderboard Competition Winners

The results are in. okayBLAM has won the NON-US leaderboard competition and GottNuttz is the victor in the US leaderboard. Coincidentally, they each finished with a streak of 12. okayBLAM and GottNuttz will receive $400, 1 hour of coaching from PimpinDonks, a 1 year SharkScope membership, 30 SharkScopers credits, and a diamond Star Icon.

Overall, our first competition was a great success! A big thanks goes out to PlayersOnly and SunPoker for adding to the prizepool and allowing us to do this on their network.

NON-US leaderboard results

Ranking Username $$ won Credits won SS subscription Pimpindonks coaching
1 okayBLAM $400 30 Credits 1 year 1 hour
2 Landsbanki $150 15 Credits 5 months 1 hour
2 konfetka4 $150 15 Credits 5 months 1 hour
4 ShipSauce 2 Credits 1 month
5 imagino07 2 Credits 1 month

 

US Leaderboard results

Ranking Username $$ won Credits won SS subscription Pimpindonks coaching
1 GottNuttz $400 30 Credits 1 year 1 hour
2 xMarvel $150 15 Credits 5 months 1 hour
3 dan08 $100 10 Credits 3 months 1 hour
4 MattB5784 2 Credits 1 month
5 fingerbutt2 2 Credits 1 month

Here’s the latest status of the prize payouts:

  • SharkScopers credits have been credited to your account.
  • SharkScopeAdmin has credited winners SharkScope accounts with subscriptions
  • PlayersOnly and SunPoker have been instructred to pay out cash winnings. Players only has paid.
  • I’ve sent Mark a list of the coaching winners to contact. Mark has contacted all the winners to schedule a coaching session

Scrub anywhere in videos

We’ve moved our videos over to a streaming server, which means that you can now scrub anywhere in the video without it having to load first. In the past, if you want wanted to open up a video and jump to the 30 minute mark, you would have to wait for 30 minutes worth of the video to download. Now you can just click on the timeline at the 30 minute mark, and the video will play from there.

Give it a try.

Italian Poker Videos Now Available

We’re now accepting poker videos from our italian members. You can go here to submit a video. Salsa-vb has posted up the first video in italian, which You can watch it here.

We hope to begin translating some of our existing videos in the future and getting more videos from our motivated italian members.

Create videos for SharkScopers. FEBRUARY BONANZA!

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We’re opening up our doors to new video instructors. We’re looking for sng players who are dominating sharkscope leaderboards, cash game players with a history of long-term success, and multi-table tournament players who continually defy the odds and final table in large fields.

If you’re interested, now is the best time to get started. During february, we’re giving 55% of earnings to all instructors that publish just two videos. We’ll also be introducing new membership methods, which will bring in more viewers to your videos.

Visit our submit a video page to find out how to get started now.

Win PimpinDonks coaching, $$, SharkScope subscriptions and more

Come join the first ever SharkScopers leaderboard challenge. We have tons of prizes up for grab for the top 10 finishers of both the US and the non-US leaderboards. The challenge for this leaderboard will be to win the most double or nothing sng’s in a row.

The prizes include (6) private coaching sessions with PimpinDonk (Mark Schmid), monthly and yearly subscriptions to SharkScope, SharkScopers credit bundles, and cash. In total we’ll be giving away more then $3,000 in cash and prizes between the US and non-US leaderboards.

PimpinDonks has coached several students, who have went on to become very profitable poker players. In his recent coaching group, his students have earned more then $31,000, not including rakeback. Here’s his description of how he coaches students online

“We then do 1 of 3 things. First, and most popular is to go over hand histories of sngs/mtts that the student has already played. I explain the hands I would have played differently and fix any mistakes I see right away. So they get leaks fixed after 1 session with this method. Second, we can go over hand histories of tournaments I have played and it tough spots I ask them what they would do and explain why I did the plays I did. Third, we can have a Q&A session. They prepare questions ahead of time or tough hands they played and I answer questions they have about any poker related topics. We can also discuss poker concepts or go over areas of the game they struggle with.”

Sign up Now for either the US or Non-US Leaderboard Challenge

Set up your Blogroll on SharkScopers

We’ve implemented a new blogroll feature so that bloggers can display a list of their favorite blogs. This was blogroll.gifrequested feature (by our member, TripleAceIRL) that we agreed is an essential option for all blogs. You can add either bloggers from SharkScopers or other websites — no restrictions. This optional feature is located on the sidebar of your own blog.

Adding someone’s blog to your blogroll is considered a big compliment, and visa versa. It’s a way of telling that person that you follow/support their blog, and to encourage your readers to check their site out. If you have friends who blog, you should also encourage them to link to your blog, to gain more readers / commentors.

We also brought back and slightly improved the blog archive feature that we used to have on the beta site. You can now see a summary of each users posts per month and read all of their monthly archives.

We’re now accepting MoneyBookers payments

We’ve added MoneyBookers as a new payment option for Purchasing credits on SharkScopers. Moneybookers is a similar payment processor to PayPal, but they’re available in a lot of places where PayPal isnt.

If you already use PayPal and are happy with the service, then stick with PayPal. If PayPal isn’t available to you or if you’re looking for a different option, MoneyBookers is probably the best choice.

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Activity Feed for Videos and Blogs

We’ve introduced a forum style activity feed for our videos and blogs categories as a clear and simple way of viewing the newest posts and comments in these categories. They’re located underneath their menu items in the drop-down list.
This should keep discussions relevant longer and show which topics are generating the most interest.

If you haven’t already, critique a video you’ve unlocked, join in on a discussion, or start your own. SharkScopers is an extremely community oriented site. We’ve seen much higher interest in the videos that have multiple positive comments vs. the ones with negative or no comments, and authors love to see a reply on their posts.