Sharkscope took to its socials yesterday to inform users that GGPoker stopped the poker tracking site from recording tournament results. ❤️ Sharkscope is claiming the move was made “for the apparent reasons of optimizing the player experience and increasing security.”
GGPoker, the ❤️ largest online poker site in the world, is the global home of the World Series of Poker. This change not ❤️ only affects GGPoker, but all the poker sites it powers: AllNewPOker, BetKings, Olybet, BestPoker, DakaPOker, Natural8, OptiBet, PPIPoker, TiltKing, and ❤️ YouLePoker.
Poker data for sale
Sharkscope collects player and tournament results from many poker sites, including all the ones that operate in ❤️ the United States (PokerStars, Partygaming, WSOP, etc.). A hybrid subscription/free service, user can look up the results of any player ❤️ they come across while playing online, but a lot of the good stuff is behind a subscription wall.
Curious how GPI ❤️ Award winning Dumptruck69 is doing on WSOP in Pennsylvania? Take a peak and get a picture on Sharkscope, which gives ❤️ non-subscribers five free searches a day. That’s Cherish Andrews by the way, the 2024 GPI Female Player of the Year, ❤️ who just won her first WSOP Circuit ring on Aug. 19.
Sharkscope takes users information and disseminates it into data that ❤️ poker players find scrumptiously delicious, like ROI and in-the-money percentages, number of tourneys played, and how they finished in them ❤️ on average.
Take a peak.
Results from the latest tournaments are also shown, even if players never opted-in to Sharkscope, which they ❤️ must do to have all their information displayed.
The site also has extensive leaderboards and offers upgrades like heads-up-display and analytics ❤️ that start at aR$6 month subscription.
Players can opt-out
Andrews could contact Sharkscope and opt-in and see the other pieces of information, ❤️ including what would be a very sexy chip graph. Or she could completely opt-out, which would stop the site from ❤️ displaying anything about the poker played under her username except that she opted-out.
So instead of allowing its players to choose ❤️ whether or not they want their generated poker data to appear on Sharkscope, the site took the decision from them.
GGPoker ❤️ has not commented on why it made the move to stop Sharkscope from using the data generated by its players. ❤️ I’ll update this story if they do.
The change will not prevent Sharkscope users from searching how players have done in ❤️ the past, but it does close the door on the data generated in the present and future. That included information ❤️ about their own play, which many players use to sharpen their game.
On-site options
While other sites, like WSOP in the U.S., ❤️ have banned players from using poker tracking tools like, well, PokerTracker 4 that gives players insights about their opponents (as ❤️ well as their own game), GGPoker went the other direction and gave its players some of these tools for free. ❤️ It’s the only site to have done so.
Smart HUD is GGPoker’s answer to Sharkscope’s own heads-up display that gives players ❤️ their overall view of their opponent’s statistics right on the table as they play. The site also offers users its ❤️ PokerCraft feature, which allows players to deep-dive into their game through analytics.
It’s quite possible that GGPoker simply wants to level ❤️ the playing field even more by preventing its players to utilize information available on Sharkscope. After all, this falls in ❤️ line with its blanket ban on third-party software, like PokerTracker 4, while playing.
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