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SharkScope tracks its 500 millionth game!

SharkScope’s database now contains the results for a whopping 507 million SnG tournaments (at the time of writing) which are online and searchable 24×7.

The first tournament was tracked in 2004 starting on the CryptoLogic network and the total has grown this year at its fastest rate ever. The database contains the player names of an incredible 23 million online players across a total of 34 networks.

SharkScope recently added Live WPT tournament results and the development team is busy creating coverage for the new French networks such as Everest.fr and FullTilt.fr, both of which will be officially released this week.

PokerStars.fr, Ongame.fr and Party.fr tracking added

Less than a week after French networks license real-money SnG tournaments, SharkScope today announces that it is now tracking three of them: Pokerstars.fr, Ongame.fr and Party.fr.

Coverage rates, tracking times and tournament-selection capabilities are all equivalent to their international and Italian counterparts.

SharkScope will endeavour to track further French networks as they come online.

SharkScope to Publish WPT Player Data

SharkScope, the industry leader in tracking and analyzing online poker tournaments, has partnered with World Poker Tour® to publish its first ever land-based tournament statistics. Poker fans now possess the ability to track and view graphical representations of stats for any player who has participated in a WPT® main event since its inception in 2002. SharkScope.com will continue providing current data as WPT commences its 9th season at the Bellagio Cup in July.

For the first time anywhere you can now accurately see how much profit professional players make from premier live tournament events and what the attainable ROI’s are.

Filter and Blocking Enhancements

Today we’ve added a couple of features to help you analyse your data in more detail.

Firstly you can now use a VS Player filter, whereby you can specify a player’s name and only include results against that player (the VS Player filter can be found in advanced search options in the “Other Options” drop down). The power of this filter is that it can be used in combination with all the other advanced search filters and it will eventually completely replace the Head to Head feature.

The 2nd change is that you can now configure your Personal Playing Names on the preferences page. This automatically creates a Global Alias for all your usernames which can be searched. More importantly after configuring these names when you search for a blocked player, instead of seeing nothing, you will now see the VS=|Me| filter applied, which shows you all the results from games you have played against this player.

PokerStars Opt-In Weekly Cash Give Away

In order to reward players who have chosen to Opt-In to our PokerStars tracking, we are excited to announce that we are now offering a weekly $1000 cash give away.

Starting in June, every Sunday at midnight PST new prize icons, worth between $100 and $1000, will appear next to randomly chosen Opted-In player names who have not reset their statistics. If you win, you have until the following Sunday to email us at support@sharkscope.com and claim your prize, otherwise the prize is lost.

All prizes will be paid directly into the winning PokerStars accounts and the PokerStars account must be able to receive money within the claim period (no exceptions).

Any unclaimed prize money will be put back into the prize pool for the following week.

Pacific coverage now includes Scheduled and Omaha games

SharkScope announces that it has improved its tracking of the Pacific network by including Scheduled and Omaha games.

Although Pacific has been tracked by SharkScope since 2006, and captured almost 15 million games, today’s announcement upholds SharkScope’s commitment to not only include new networks but continually improve its tracking of well-established networks too.

Bodog and LSP coverage

SharkScope continually strives to give its users the most complete SNG tournament coverage and is committed to increasing its network coverage and improving the existing tracking. To this end, SharkScope today announces the addition of two established networks to its tracking portfolio. Bodog and the Leonardo Service Provider (LSP), which supports skins such as MediatelBet and MyWin, brings SharkScope’s total coverage to 26 active networks.

SharkScope HUD now has Preferred Seating support

A new feature just added to the SharkScope HUD allows you to specify your Preferred Seat option and then automatically aligns the overlay-ed statistics to the correct seats based on this option.

So you can now easily use the HUD in conjunction with such features as FullTilt’s “Put Me There” function and PokerStars “Preferred Seat”.

The new feature is available in the “Preferred Seat” tab of the HUD application and you can specify each seat position per network and table size, or set it to “None” if you wish to switch it off entirely.

SharkScope now available in French

SharkScope today reinforces its commitment to internationalization by adding French to the list of supported languages.

The site will now automatically be shown in French based on your web browser settings or, alternatively, using the Options menu.

We’ll be continuing to add languages over the next few months….

Coverage of the Everleaf network added

SharkScope is now tracking tournament results on the Everleaf network. Everleaf is a small but fast growing network that accepts players from all countries including the US and includes skins such as Luvin Poker.