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what's the possible reasons for this?
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Cause sharkscope is only a site that provides SNG results. If you hope too find MTT results for Betfair its impossible, and you could instead look at a site called Topshark. They got MTT results for alot of sites, unfortunaly not Betfair, probarly cause the site is too small.
sharkscope does mtts for most of the sites they cover, suspect the reason they don't do Betfair is that they can't justify the cost of recording the results from the subscribers they would pick up.
How do they record the results out of curiosity?
they pay indian children 1p a week to read through all the finished games in the lobbies and write down the results
The Zx81 server on Betfair cannot cope with the mtt data mining required.
Only a matter of time I suppose. Would be interesting, esp if you can break down stakes, turbos, superturbos etc, and find out where your most profitable games are.
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The Ichtyologist 14 Jan 21:17
How do they record the results out of curiosity?
They use a programming technique called API hooking. When you're writing software for Windows, you make calls to standard Windows functions to do things such as draw text to the screen. Knowing the names of these functions, you can manually watch the execution of the poker client looking for calls to these functions drawing names in the results lobby. Once you've found the code that does this, you write a bit of code that hooks into the Windows functions when the client boots up that grabs this info for you.
It's the same basic technique that is used by datamining software, and when you're writing code to hide evidence of any dodgy software you're running - bots, for example.
It's possible to detect API hooking and then in return it's possible to detect someone looking for API hooking etc. so it can become a cat and mouse game, but ultimately if the sites want to stop it (and therefore stop datamining), they can if they get a good enough programmer in.
How do they record the results out of curiosity?
They use a programming technique called API hooking. When you're writing software for Windows, you make calls to standard Windows functions to do things such as draw text to the screen. Knowing the names of these functions, you can manually watch the execution of the poker client looking for calls to these functions drawing names in the results lobby. Once you've found the code that does this, you write a bit of code that hooks into the Windows functions when the client boots up that grabs this info for you.
It's the same basic technique that is used by datamining software, and when you're writing code to hide evidence of any dodgy software you're running - bots, for example.
It's possible to detect API hooking and then in return it's possible to detect someone looking for API hooking etc. so it can become a cat and mouse game, but ultimately if the sites want to stop it (and therefore stop datamining), they can if they get a good enough programmer in.
I meant to add that Betfair uses the DirectX API to perform screen drawing but the principle is the same.
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