Unfortunately SharkScope had intermittent connectivity issues for about 5 hours today due to a DDOS attack targeting an unrelated website at the data center used to host our servers. This is an identical situation to the one happened 7 months ago.

We were able to recover much more quickly from the situation this time, but unfortunately there’s no way for to completely eliminate this from happening again. We’re extremely sorry for the inconvenience and please bear with us, we are doing everything we can to reduce any future down time and prevent it from happening in the future if that is possible.

Opponents is a significant new feature has now been added to the beta version of the new SharkScope website.

This functionality can be found as a tab in the Detailed Player View where you view the player’s graphs and tournament history etc.

Opponents is a complete replacement for the old Profit by Player feature and offers a huge number of enhancements including:

• Works with any type of tournaments (not just heads up as with the old Profit by Player).
• Works with any advanced search filters.
• Shows the most frequent opponents, along with the most/least profitable.
• Shows the top 10 players in each category.
• Also works with Player Groups.

Following on the release of the iScope the iPhone app we’re pleased to announce the release of aScope, an Android application for displaying your online poker tournament results. As with the iPhone app 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.

Remember if you have an idea for a mobile application you’d like to create based on SharkScope data, or any other type of application for that matter, we have a full API available for 3rd Parties.

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.

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.

http://beta.sharkscope.com

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:

General

• Search all networks at once for a player name.
• Linkable pages and browser back button support.
• Native currency support. Previously SharkScope was natively storing data in USD. Now you can search natively in any of our supported currencies.

Advanced Search

• Many new game type filters e.g. Rush and Easy Tournaments
• Option to Exclude any game types.
• Show first, best and worst x number of results.

Player Results Table

• Sparkline graphs integrated into statistics tables.
• Customizable player results table (choose from over 30 different statistics).
• Re-sizable results table
• Private player notes.
• Create public and private player groups. Option to consolidate those groups into a single player name.

Graphs

• Zoomable Interactive Graphs
• 1 click export to jpeg

Tournament Selector

• One search now auto refreshes for 1 minute.
• Average Ability Column option.

Tournament Results Display

• Registering tournaments auto refresh.
• Overall Tournament statistics shown for all tournaments including completed 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.