Joined: May '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 53 (M)
Posts: 6197
I didnt know Sharkscope had a forum did you? I guess its pretty new cos there arent a lot Threads/Posts. Imo its not really intresting for now but maybe in the future when people post more.
Joined: Nov '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 2194
Hmm seems a little odd to me that they should have a forum? I thought sharkscope was more of a tool ! I suppose you get more features if you sign up to it ? I just use it to look at myself to see how good i'm doing...HeHeHe, Has any one here signed up to the full package? What extras do you get? (i know if you dont sign up you can only have 5 serches in 24 hours) Does anyony use it all the time?
Joined: May '09
Location: Denmark
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 191
I haven't signed up for it, but sharkscope has a lot of interesting tool. I also think the Sharkscope HUD could be very handy, but so far it isn't compatible with that many sites. Besides I don't like paying for these tools
I prefer if it could be gained as part of a bonus.
I use sharkscope only when I play at other sites than Pokerstars (where it is actually illegal to use), Full Tilt and Ipoker-network.
Like you said you only have 5 searches a day, and in the long run it weakens your own ability to read opponents because when you see a player with red stats you immediately treat him like a donk. Use your own judgement. That at least is my advise. At the final table I might just check up on some of the other finalists. But at that stage poker is more about knowing your ICM.
I have also played against plenty of winning players, that didn't necessarily play that well. Maybe the level was to low for them to take seriously, I don't know. But my point is that relying your play on stats from sharkscope is dangerous.
I have on certain occation suddenly played more defensively against players I know are profitable pokerplayers.
So if you decide to use it, do it with precautions.....
Joined: Dec '08
Location: Germany
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 522
but why do they ban this and on the other hand tools like tournament shark or the calculator-software are allowed...(like at stars, ok they work with the softwareforge..) fundamentally tournament-shark and sharkscope give the same information and the calculator has a hud too didnt take a deeper look on sharkscope just to look the free statistics if a player is flashy
Posted by MasterY: I have two questions for Beno192555:
Where and how do you know it's illegal on most/all sites?
How can the pokersites catch you?
I don't personally use sharkscope very often, but I have used it occassionally in good faith thinking only Pokerstars forbid it.
What about other tools? forexample poker calculator pro? Or tournament shark? Is there any particular sites where these are legal/illegal?
Always clean your browser cookies and they can't catch you, but if you dont do it, its pretty easy for them. I never heard someone getting banned, because he used sharkscope, though.
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
I don't use sharkscope, thought it was forbidden to use on most of the poker sites, so didn't wanna get in trouble. anyway i find it weird to depend on a software when you can judge the person urself.
Joined: Dec '08
Location: Germany
Age: 45 (M)
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Posted by SuperNoob: I don't use sharkscope, thought it was forbidden to use on most of the poker sites, so didn't wanna get in trouble. anyway i find it weird to depend on a software when you can judge the person urself.
but if you see his play with weird moves and have a difficult decision you can take advantage of this if you read roi is -85% or its +150% or see the recent results... this made me doing a call sometimes and yes it was correct
Posted by SuperNoob: I don't use sharkscope, thought it was forbidden to use on most of the poker sites, so didn't wanna get in trouble. anyway i find it weird to depend on a software when you can judge the person urself.
but if you see his play with weird moves and have a difficult decision you can take advantage of this if you read roi is -85% or its +150% or see the recent results... this made me doing a call sometimes and yes it was correct
BUT (!) if he lowered his ROI on purpose just to make you think he is a fish?.... (I know that makes no sense xD)
