SharkScope.com
Online Tracking of Your Sit and Go Competition
A lot of players have often mentioned playing poker on the internet has the biggest disadvantage of all – and that is not being able to see your opponent across the table. That may be true if you are able to discern tells to the point of profitability, but many pros, including Daniel Negreanu say that part of the game is overrated. Some also concur that you should be using betting patterns rather than bluffs and tells to out play your competition.
Actually, on the internet you have tools that will give you an advantage over live play to track and monitor your opponent’s activities. Shark Scope is one of those tools.
Sharkscope also updates virtually immediately after a tournament is completed... this is definately a heads up on their competition over at Poker Prophecy.
SharkScope.com is predominantly a resource to find statistics on your sit and go tournament opponents. The information it provides is rather in depth, complete with graphs, recent games, ROI%, average stake and total profit. SharkScope also adds further analysis by adding hot, tilt, and super tilt labels to player who are either blowing or building their bankroll.
There are a lot of internet players that play sit and go tournaments exclusively. The successful players are generally tight and prudent with their hands during the early stages of a tournament and will be taking advantage of that time to observe their opponents. Many of them use SharkScope during that very same period and source out each of their opponent’s records.
Herein lies the difference between taking your poker progress seriously or not. The ones who are successful in the sit and go business rely on the kind of information that SharkScope offers up. Others who are not as serious probably wouldn’t know how to decipher it anyway.
I have researched players on opposite ends of the scale. There are perennial losers that constantly reload and are down thousands of dollars while the constant winners show ROI% above 10%, effectively out performing the DJIA! The scale would also show players who have played more than 10,000 sit and go tournaments as opposed to some who haven’t played more than 10. Who would be your favorite?
Sharkscope also updates virtually immediately after a tournament is completed, so it is simply the most accurate source of player information on the internet. As well it includes databases for Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, Party Poker and all the Cryptologic sites as well, so it covers the mass majority of sit and go tournaments on the internet.
Next time you enter a sit and go tournament, help yourself to some free searches on your opponents. You will be surprised at how much you can learn, but the next step is actually using that information to your advantage.
Poker Book Review: Online Ace by Scott Fischman, A WSOP Champion Guide to Master Internet Poker
The Crew was a group of young poker players that hung out together and did quite well at the WSOP 2004, but none better than Scott Fischman who took home 2 bracelets that year and the admiration of a growing youth movement in poker. A little bit chippy, a little bit lucky, Fischman won his titles by knowing his game inside and out.
Originally a poker dealer in Vegas, Fischman learned the games by watching. Unlike other dealers who become trained mathematical autonomons, Fischman actually paid attention to who won on a regular basis. As Fischman observed, the players who were often criticized for not making the “correct play” were often the ones taking home the cash. This still wasn’t enough for Fischman as his usual routine included crossing to other side of the table at shift end. Admittedly, he didn’t do to well at first, but gradually became keen enough all the major poker games to play in, and win the HORSE tournament at the WSOP – certainly the most skill demanding tournament of all.
Online Ace poker book. is all about internet poker though, as Fischman and a vibrant youth movement in poker have built years of experience condensed into months of online multi-tabling. Multi-tabling is also one of Scott’s sure fire recommendations in this book, as opposed to what many other authorities will teach. Fischman has a guiding theory that the way to temper, bad beats, bad luck, poor cards, and self brow beating is to simply play more games at once. This has a positive effect on your mind set, as some other table is going to require your attention in less than 2 seconds. No time for self pity, bad beat anger, or wrong play remorse. Learn. Adjust. Accept. Get on with the game because there is money to made and the fewer mistakes you commit during your play, the better you will be in the long run.
Fischman offers virtually no hand to hand combat scenarios here ala Harrington, but the theme of the book isn’t a proponent of that either, spending a lot of its content digging into the psychology of poker today, and describing quite well internet strategies for multi table tournaments, ring games, bank roll management and the best section of all, sit and go tournaments. For this section alone, Scott Fischman has exceeded his publishers’ expectations.
This book is a genuine quality piece from a chippy young poker dealer who happens to be a 2 time WSOP champion!