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 definitely 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.

Playing Poker Against The Pioneer, The Butterfly, and The Avarice.

By Marty Smith

Now firmly established as the market leader in opponent tracking for online sit and go poker tournament rounders, Sharkscope boasts a bounty of operative information that really can provide a strategic edge in difficult games with challenging opponents.

On many occasions when my poker calculator hasn’t had time to profile my opponent properly, a difficult hand has sent me scurrying into the sharkscope website doing a quick search of someone who has just put a big bet to me. If you dig into the some of the other features on sharkscope though, in particular the graphs, this service can do well by helping you identify the type of player you are up against, and I am not talking poker, as much as I am human nature here.

Once you have cued up your opponent’s results at sharkscope, click on the player name again and the software will display 3 graphs of converted data based on their playing statistics. The first and most important is your total profit and this critical graph tracks all his buy-ins and subtracts that from all of the prizes earned. Look long and hard at this graph because the trends within will tell a grand story of not only the level of success or failure he is having, but also your entire approach to the game. Below are the 3 main personalities you will be up against.

The Pioneer. Is it consistently going up? We all have small bumps here and there, but if your graph looks like steps upon steps going on and on in an upward trend to the far right corner, you got something going on! Keep in mind here, it has nothing to do with the level of a poker game you play at, but shows that you know how to manage your bankroll and pick the right games for your style of play and level of

The Butterfly. Is your graph trending the other way, as in steps leading to the basement? The longer and more steady a graph like this, the more you are in desperate need of a good game of checkers. This is a spender’s graph who will normally not concern himself with the outcome and is most likely passing time and creating entertainment for himself in losing. It is a social activity for this player just like you or I going to Starbucks for coffee. Sit down, spend a little, chat a little and see what happens.

The Avarice. Erratic graphs that have steep climbs and steep dips tend to represent a player who has an emotional attachment to the game so strong that it derails his judgment in game critical decisions. That emotion stems from an outright greedy and impatient nature, and this type of sporadic performance can happen in spite of the fact that his knowledge of the game may be above average. This is a player who tilts more than a can of soda, often sucks out and plays way too many hands in marginal situations.

You can also use these categories to discover what kind of player you are and by looking at your graph as objectively as you can, it may lead to some rather profound conclusions.

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