SharkScope continues to improve its coverage of Ongame’s new P5 client by today announcing increased tournament searching capabilities and significantly reduced tracking time.

Searching for Ongame tournaments by the new P5 tournament reference is now supported for both running and registering games. In addition, the “Tournament Selector” function has been enabled for Ongame for the first time. These powerful features are backed by huge improvements in the Ongame tracking time with most tournament results now appearing on the system within minutes.

In an effort to make it easier and faster for people to judge player abilities across wildly different stake ranges and tournament types, SharkScope has now introduce its custom “Ability” rating.

To form this rating we analyze all the statistics and results we have on a particular player and then give them a numeric rating that goes up to 100 for the very best players.

The rating takes into account that a player losing a small amount at high stakes, is likely a better player than a player winning money at low stakes – and so gives you a genuinely global rating of poker ability.

SharkScope has now added support for the Cereus network (which includes Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet) to its HUD (Heads Up Display) tool. In addition to this, support has also been added for the Italian iPoker network which includes skins such as Sisal, Snai, EuroBet Italia and PowerPoker.it.

Stay tuned for more announcements as we add support for other networks….

Less than a week after the OnGame poker network moved to the new P5 client, SharkScope today announces that it has returned OnGame coverage to their previous levels.

SharkScope is currently processing OnGame P5 games from the 11th June 2009 onwards, including some overlapping games on the old OnGame system. Over the next couple of the days the backlog will be cleared and the update time (the time taken for completed games to appear on SharkScope) will be minimal again.

SharkScope is currently working on a new version of the HUD to support the new P5 client as well as re-implementing the “missing-game” functionality. There are also plans to add OnGame to the “tournament selector” and reduce the update time to a matter of minutes.

Continuing its unprecedented poker network coverage, SharkScope today announces that bwin (Italy) has become the latest addition to its ever-growing tracking portfolio.

Currently in Beta, SharkScope is now tracking all running and registering games and is collecting all finished results (including Scheduled and Satellite tournaments) within a minute of the completed games.

This move further strengthens SharkScope’s position as the market leader in tournament tracking and reinforces its commitment to the Italian poker community.

Bwin (Italy) becomes the 23rd network covered by SharkScope and the 6th Italian network.