Nowadays, monitoring your performance and that of your opponents is an important factor, firstly so that you can be rigorous (and honest with yourself) about your playing style and your skill and also to know who you are playing against, whether you are a reg or a weaker player. Having a tracker program helps a lot when it comes to analyzing the players at your table and their playing style, however, it does not give you an exact reading of who these players are, or whether they are winners or losers. All of our games are registered on some sites, which have a large database of players, which is provided by the poker rooms themselves.
Sharkscope is one of those rooms that offers 5 free daily searches. In them, you can learn about your poker life and that of your opponents, when they choose to release their statistics for consultation.
I'll take mine as an example and explain the data that the site provides so that you can understand what each term means:
Count: 2,286 – This is the amount of games you had on that site you searched for
Av Profit: $1.02 – This is the average of your profits
Av Stake: $5.47 – This is the average buy-in of the tournaments you have played.
Av ROI: 13.47 – This is the average return on your investments
Profit: $ 2.342 – Refers to the amount gained or lost
Ability: 71- Calculation performed by the website, to indicate your ability
Achievement Points: 34 – Points earned by you
Active Days: 479 – Number of days you have actually played
Av Entrants: 1406 – Average number of players in the tournaments/games you played. Remember that I play MTTs. If you play SNG, this average obviously tends to drop
Av Games / Day (when playing): 4.8 – Average number of games or tournaments you played per day
Best 100 Streak Av Profit: $29.35 – Refers to the average profit of your top 100 games/tournaments
Best 500 Streak Av Profit: $6.86 – Average profit from your top 500 games/tournaments
Total Break Even Days: 2 – Days in which you remain at 0-0, i.e., you neither won nor lost
Total Cashes: $15,852 – Gross profit, without discounting rake or entries
Early Finishes 8% – Early eliminations in tournaments
Early/Middle Finishes 19,2% – Eliminations in the “middle game” phase in tournaments
Late Finishes 14% – Eliminations in the final stages of tournaments
First Game Date: 04/03/2008 08:46 PM – Date and time of the first game
ITM%: 31.3% – Percentage of times in the money (ITM)
Last Game Date: 15/Feb/2015 03:36 PM – Date and time of last game
Total Losing Days: 296 – Total days you lost
Max Cashing Streak: 7 – Number of times you went ITM in a row
Max Losing Streak: 30 – Number of times in a row you were out of the ITM
Max Winning Streak: 3 – Wins in a row
Most Games / Day: 23 – Maximum amount of games played in one day
PokerStars Tournament Leaderboard Points: 9,988 – Your ranking points in MTTs pokerstars
Av % Field Beaten: 54.3% – Average total of placements at the end of the tournaments in relation to the number of participants entering the tournament.
Total Rake: $1001 – Total commission you paid to the room you played at, in this case Pokerstars. Hence the importance of having rakeback.
Total Stake: $12,509 - Sum of all your buy-ins. With all this in hand we can start to check whether we have really been profitable or not over the years of playing. (Total Prize (-) Rake (-) Buyin)
Total ROI: 17.3% – Total return on investment. In this case, the correct reading would be (117.3%). 17.3 % is the profit, that is, you recover what you invested and still had another 17.3%
Turbo Ratio: 72.2 % – Your performance in turbo tournaments
Total Winning Days: 181 – Days you were a winner
Worst 100 Streak Av Profit: -$-3.92 Average loss of your 100 worst tournaments/games
Worst 500 Streak Av Profit: -$1.47 Average loss of your worst 500 tournaments/games
Finally, with this data, you will be able to get a true report of your game. It can be tough at times, but the numbers don't lie. Are you on the right track?
Article by: prof_anselmo
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