We’re looking for someone who based in Italy to help test the SharkScope HUD on various Italian networks and to create accounts there to help our developers fix bugs etc.
If you interested please contact support@sharkscope.com. It will most likely require only an hour a week and the tester will get free access to the HUD and $100 a month.
Unfortunately SharkScope has been experiencing intermittent connectivity issues over the past 48 hours due to a DDOS attack targeting an unrelated website at the data center used to host
our servers.
The data center we use is one of the largest providers of such services with a global network and multiple redundancies.
Sadly however, not even the most well resourced companies are immune from the effect of a sophisticated DDOS attack. We are following up closely with our provider and keeping the pressure on to restore stability to the site.
Fortunately, no game results were lost due to these connectivity
issues as we have other redundancies in place.
We’re very sorry for the inconvenience to the effected users.
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.
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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.
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SharkScope has overhauled its tracking of the iPoker network, including iPoker.it. The new system improves coverage and adds “Tournament Selector” functionality, including the ability to search by Tournament ID for registering and running games. The tracking has also been designed to be much more resilient to client change which should result in significantly reduced downtime.
SharkScope is proud to announce that public access is now available to the beta version of our entirely new website.
Please note that as this is beta software, so there will be bugs and we want to know about them. We are also looking for as much feedback as possible. What features do you like, dislike and what else would you like to see added?
There are too many new features to mention all of them but here’s some of the main ones:
Unfortunately a bug introduced in the iPoker.it client last month was preventing us from tracking results for the past few weeks. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and tracking has now fully resumed.
We are hopeful we will be able to recover all the missed tournaments and should be able to give a definitive answer on this pretty soon.
As a side benefit of the new tracking system we have in place we will be upgrading our support for iPoker.it in the next few days to include it in the tournament selector and allow the searching by running and registering tournament ids.
It is with great disappointment that we here at Sharkscope must report that our coverage of FullTilt is currently compromised due to an apparent change in FullTilt’s policy regarding data retrieval from their site.
We here at Sharkscope have always tried to be sensitive to the needs of the poker sites we cover and have tried in earnest to maintain an open dialog, honor any requests, and obey all rules that are established regarding the use of their data. However, maintaining this type of relationship with FullTilt has been painstaking because FullTilt shows great reticence to define & communicate their rules & requests; in fact, clearly they don’t have an issue with the concept of tracking tournament results they have now stated that they are allowing OfficialPokerRankings.com to data mine their site despite the fact that that site shows very similar data to SharkScope. FullTilt is not returning emails on the subject despite sending us unsolicited details in the past on how to extract data from their poker client (and thereby encouraging us to do so).
Hence, we are very frustrated about being included in their current blocking; all we want is a clear understanding of their rules and perspective, and we’re more than happy to work with FullTilt in a positive manner that benefits all.
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So far this active blocking by FullTilt has affected our coverage in specific ways. Our high stakes coverage has been relatively unaffected; however, the lower stakes coverage has been extremely poor recently. We are continuing to work on the problem and are still optimistic about restoring full coverage; but this may take some time. In the meantime there will be some changes in our coverage matrix; shortly FullTilt will be taken out of the Tournament Selector. However, we will be replacing this feature with an alternative piece of functionality that we are hoping to announce soon. All players will likely be effected by missed games in the short term, so we ask you to please bear with us. We are working as hard as we can to restore coverage. FullTilt’s policies are out of our control; we can only try to work through those policies as best as we can.
Regarding FullTilt’s current blocking policy, please note that it remains common practice for high stakes and high volume players to share hand histories to create their own massive databases and so obtain huge secret advantages over other players. There is nothing that FullTilt or any other poker site can do to prevent this practice other than take players at their word that they aren’t doing it. It makes no sense to us that FullTilt takes the position that the displaying tournament results by particular sites provides an unfair advantage to some players. Over 20% of FullTilt’s tournament players use SharkScope each month so it clearly isn’t a secret; anyone can use our free service, and anyone can completely hide their statistics if they choose to do so. We were the first site to offer the option to opt out of statistics display, and we have offered this well before any poker site has asked us to include such a feature.
SharkScope provides a wealth of features to assist players in analyzing their own statistics and comparing these statistics to other players; with an arsenal of information at their disposal, they can find leaks in their game and find out what is possible in regard to profitability for each type of game. Beyond these features, SharkScope provides a wide range of benefits to the poker community, such as facilitating staking arrangements, global leaderboards and not least in catching–and acting as a deterrent for–collusion and automated poker bots.
Whilst all the major sites do try their hardest to catch collusion rings and bots, the scope of the challenge is simply to great for them to pick up many of the situations until its too late. Nothing is as effective as a direct observer with poker knowledge at identifying unusual play patterns. With Sharkscope, observers can check their suspicions directly, searching for players playing too often together (who show a large increase in profit when they do) and bot usernames having suspicious play frequencies. SharkScope has been instrumental both publicly and behind the scenes in catching large numbers of these rings and bots on virtually all the major poker sites, including FullTilt.
We believe that while most major sites try to be as honest as possible regarding exposed cheating and try to compensate players correctly, the existence of SharkScope enforces these policies by providing incontrovertible data relevant to these situations. SharkScope provides industry-wide checks and balances, and we believe that poker community should not give that up willingly.
Hence, with all of these issues and policies in mind, we respectfully request that all online players carefully consider the option of playing at sites other than FullTilt and communicating to FullTilt your opinions and rationale about why you prefer to play elsewhere. We believe FullTilt to be responsive to their users; hopefully you can make a difference in keeping online poker a game of skill, an environment inhospitable to cheaters, and a place where you can track you and your friends performance and so motivate yourself to improve your game.
The latest release of the SharkScope HUD (1.0.200) has included a number of enhancements. Firstly after a long wait the HUD now has support for the Auto Center option in iPoker and iPoker.it clients.
The Auto Center option is handled automatically so unlike other networks it will not be listed in the HUDs Preferred Seating tab. The only thing to note is that if you change the Auto Center setting in the iPoker client, you will need to restart both the iPoker client and the HUD to have it pick up the new setting.
The other major addition to the HUD this release is the inclusion of support for the Ongame.fr network which includes such skins as bwin.fr, SAjoo.fr and Winga.fr.
SharkScope announces that it has overhauled its tracking of the Italian network MicroGame (formerly People’s Poker). The new tracking includes both Scheduled games and full “Tournament Selector” functionality, including the ability to search by Tournament ID for registering and running games.
Although the MicroGame network has been tracked by SharkScope since 2008, and captured over 11 million games, SharkScope is continually improving its coverage based on empirical analysis as well as customer feedback.