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Message: [QUOTE="alienat3d, post: 5513607, member: 226185"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=4]Very good question![/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Yes, I do check my villains in Sharkscope, but with a pinch of skepticism tho.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Poker is known, as the game of insufficient information, so in order to improve our results, we should use any information we can get. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]And this is where sharkscope can help. I'm totally agreed with you, [B]deyvsonflp[/B] that a bigger tournament seize is highly important when you decide if the information provided by sharkscope relevant or not, due tournament poker variance. From my own experience and feeling, I'd go with 1-1,5K+ games.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]I think that the graph itself says more than numbers. "No safety in numbers" seems kinda legit in there. And that's why I said, that I take sharkscope "with a pinch of skepticism".[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]For example, I have personally a nice big minus at some rooms, considering sharkscope's information, which is total bullshit. As I know I'm in plus there. :rolleyes:[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]This happens, when you're winning tickets over satellites. Sharkscope doesn't understand this and counting your tickets, as if you've been paying normal buy-in. So when you winning tickets constantly and losing target tournament, which is obviously a normal thing. Well, you'll be looking like a big loser on sharkscope pretty soon, even though you're making plus in that room overall.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Taking all those facts said above in an account, I would really be careful with the assumptions made about somebody, based only on his minus sharkscope stats. It can be, that he is a very good player, who just loves to play the satellites.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]However, the good news, that if somebody has a really nice green graph and plus stats and some solid amount of games played, he is pretty likely a good regular and you shall be careful with him.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]The graph is my favorite feature on sharkscope, because the form of it can tell you so much about the player. Let's take a virtual example of some graphs and what they could tell us: [/SIZE][LIST=1] [*][SIZE=4]Started with going down to red, then slowly but surely going up to the green and raising further: Tells me that the player is improving his game and although he wasn't very good at the beginning (which is normal thing), but now he could be in a very good form by now.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4]Started with constant red, then suddenly jumped into the sky and then slowly, but constantly goes down: Tells me, that it's probably not a very good player, who had his lucky hour and scooped a big tournament, which brought him the good winnings, but because he is not improving his game, he is about to lose it with the time and go back to where he started.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4]Started with green and going up, then after some time going constantly down: Tells me that the player was at the beginning in a good form, but had lost it or being in a rough time in the downswing. In both cases, you might assume from him to make mistakes and not playing his A-Game.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4]Only green graphs with a big amount of games pointing always on good solid regs or even pros.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4] Only red graphs can be tricky, as I said above. Usually, I make a note about it and in most cases it's a bad player, but in some cases, it could be just fake information and you really have to look closer to that player's game.[/SIZE] [/LIST][SIZE=4]I hope my thoughts on that can help. :)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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