sharkscope opt in shock

[thefairy]

Sharkscope, one of the most famous online poker tools has announced that anybody who plays on pokerstars will have to opt in on having their stats shown. This act has meant game selection on stars for HU sng'ers and others is nigh on impossible.

Sharkscope however works as normal with anyother network fine still.

[Pates]

Surely absolutely noone will opt in either because they can't be arsed or they just don't know about SS. Personally you should only be able to use shark scope if you opt in.

[thefairy]

you dont wana opt in wither way do you?

ur a sick winner = people wil avoid you
ur a sick fail = ppl follow you

i like ur idea.

[SirJonnyP]

i noticed that. i also noticed about a month ago that ss were talking about being able to opt out of sharkscope, but didn't realise they were going to go a whole lot further and do that.
bang goes the days of amusing sharkscopes, mine especially

[thefairy]

you can opt out anytime you want, i know people who have disabled theirs.

[bridgey321]

If you have a sharkscope subscription you can see people's stats regardless of whether they have opted in. Also you can still view the 'ability' stat which gives some indication.

I think so anyway.

[Pates]

Best first post I've seen Welcome to the forum

It's a similar sort of thing to the cake poker network not allowing people to use tracking tools. Personally I don't think it changes popularity that much and because of this I don't know why Stars are bothering to push this on SS. If anything it will lose them some popularity.

[James]

Im not sure exackly how much the clients can influence the decision because after all its public information right? I just wonder how much business sharkscope loses from being on the blacklist?

[James]

I dont think the HUD will ever be approved my pokerstars. Having a live feed of a database of players is too close to data mining and i dont think pokerstars will ever allow this.