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I’ve been playing in tourneys where one player didn’t care for the way another player plaid a hand. As usual, the one player calls the other a donkey. Sometimes they go back and forth. And then one player refers to the other’s sharkscope stats. “You’ve lost $300 and your ROI is -35%. You must really suck”. How much faith do you put into Sharkscope? How much do you let Sharkscope influence your opinion of players you never played with before? The numbers don’t lie, right? But are they accurate?
I personally don’t put much stock into other people’s Sharkscope numbers or my own, for that matter. I believe it is flawed. I know for a fact that it doesn’t accurately report all tournament winnings. I am not sure why, but I believe it has to do with the way you enter certain tournaments. Maybe someone with a better understanding of workings of Sharkscope can shed some light on this.
Here’s what I do know. On intertops, I could win one of their daily freerolls and be awarded with a ticket to thier $1k GTD tourney on Sunday. I could win that tourney and be awarded the first prize, which is usually about $450, due to low participation. For whatever reason, that $450 will not show up on Sharkscope. However, if I were to lose that $450 or portion of it, then the loss would show up. So in my case, I have won the Sunday $1k GTD multiple times, as well as cashing in it multiple times. I have also won their Friday $250 GTD - Bounty tournament. I entered each of these tournaments using tickets that I had won playing the daily freeroll tourneys. For whatever reason none of those winnings (aprox. $2000), have ever showed up on Sharkscope. On the other hand, the money I have lost on Intertops, does show up on sharkscope. The net of all of this is that I show profit of -$735 and an ROI of -6% on site where I have never deposited a single dime, but have won over $2000 on.
It’s pretty much the same with Carbon Poker. The freerolls used award tickets and for some places a combination of a ticket and cash. The cash portion of the prize would show up on Sharkscope, while the value of the ticket wouldn’t. So if you were to win an $11.00 satellite ticket and $2.20 in real money, then Sharkscope would show you up $2.20. If you were to lose that $2.20 then Sharkscope would show you even. That makes sense. Here is where the flaw comes in. I have an $11.00 satellite ticket. I use that ticket to enter a tourney and win and entry into a $100k tourney. I min-cash in that tourney, winning $209.00. That $209 doesn’t show up on Sharkscope. Over the next 3 months I lose that $209.00. Now Sharkscope shows me down $209. In actuality, I lost the same $209 that I won which should make me even.
Not that it matters to me. I tend to put this in the same category as when a player makes an obvious bluff, then calls you a donk for calling that bluff. They then announce that they are tagging you as a bad player. I say feel free. In fact, spread the word and tell all your friends how bad I play. I love to be underestimated. That goes for anyone who looks at Sharkscope and makes assumptions about my skill based on information that I know to be inaccurate.
So, once again, my question to you is, how much faith do you put into Sharkscope? Do you ever judge other players based on their Sharkskope statistics?
I personally don’t put much stock into other people’s Sharkscope numbers or my own, for that matter. I believe it is flawed. I know for a fact that it doesn’t accurately report all tournament winnings. I am not sure why, but I believe it has to do with the way you enter certain tournaments. Maybe someone with a better understanding of workings of Sharkscope can shed some light on this.
Here’s what I do know. On intertops, I could win one of their daily freerolls and be awarded with a ticket to thier $1k GTD tourney on Sunday. I could win that tourney and be awarded the first prize, which is usually about $450, due to low participation. For whatever reason, that $450 will not show up on Sharkscope. However, if I were to lose that $450 or portion of it, then the loss would show up. So in my case, I have won the Sunday $1k GTD multiple times, as well as cashing in it multiple times. I have also won their Friday $250 GTD - Bounty tournament. I entered each of these tournaments using tickets that I had won playing the daily freeroll tourneys. For whatever reason none of those winnings (aprox. $2000), have ever showed up on Sharkscope. On the other hand, the money I have lost on Intertops, does show up on sharkscope. The net of all of this is that I show profit of -$735 and an ROI of -6% on site where I have never deposited a single dime, but have won over $2000 on.
It’s pretty much the same with Carbon Poker. The freerolls used award tickets and for some places a combination of a ticket and cash. The cash portion of the prize would show up on Sharkscope, while the value of the ticket wouldn’t. So if you were to win an $11.00 satellite ticket and $2.20 in real money, then Sharkscope would show you up $2.20. If you were to lose that $2.20 then Sharkscope would show you even. That makes sense. Here is where the flaw comes in. I have an $11.00 satellite ticket. I use that ticket to enter a tourney and win and entry into a $100k tourney. I min-cash in that tourney, winning $209.00. That $209 doesn’t show up on Sharkscope. Over the next 3 months I lose that $209.00. Now Sharkscope shows me down $209. In actuality, I lost the same $209 that I won which should make me even.
Not that it matters to me. I tend to put this in the same category as when a player makes an obvious bluff, then calls you a donk for calling that bluff. They then announce that they are tagging you as a bad player. I say feel free. In fact, spread the word and tell all your friends how bad I play. I love to be underestimated. That goes for anyone who looks at Sharkscope and makes assumptions about my skill based on information that I know to be inaccurate.
So, once again, my question to you is, how much faith do you put into Sharkscope? Do you ever judge other players based on their Sharkskope statistics?
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