What a record holds
Every tournament on the ledger has its own record, and the pages you see are generated from those records. A record holds the event name the way the room wrote it in the lobby, the buy-in with the fee included, the game and the format, how many entries there were, the prize pool, the guarantee if one was advertised, the date, and the full final table with place, player, screen name, country and prize for everyone the payout table listed. Underneath come the notes, where the desk writes down deals, record fields and anything odd about the source, and then the sources themselves with the date each one was published.
Because the pages are built from the records rather than written by hand, a correction travels. Fix a prize on one record and the ledger, the series totals and the room page all change with it the next time the site is built.
Where the figures come from
The desk prefers the room's own numbers. The lobby, a results page or a closing statement, like the one PokerStars put out when WCOOP 2026 ended on October 8, counts as the primary source. When the room has published nothing usable, the desk takes the payout table from a tournament report instead, as long as it is complete; a report that names only the winner is not enough to build a final table from. For lobby data on the networks it covers, the desk also uses SharkScope's tournament feed, which gives entries, prize pools and finishing positions straight from the tables.
Every record links to whatever it was built from, with the publication date beside the link. You can follow it and check the figures yourself, which is rather the point.
What the desk refuses to do
It does not estimate. If a report leaves out the entry count, the record leaves it out too. Nobody here divides a prize pool by the buy-in to guess how many people played, and nobody turns "Sunday's final" into a date.
When two sources disagree, both versions stay. The One on CoinPoker is the standing example: one count had 24,075 entries from 8,139 unique players, another had 18,730 players, and the record shows both with a note on who said what. Picking one would hide the disagreement, and the disagreement is part of the result.
Figures are copied as they were published, even when they look wrong. The runner-up of the $5 Ocean KO Opener is listed with more money than the winner because that is what the payout table said. The note on the record explains why.
Dates are the dates the tournament was played, wherever the source gives one. If only the report's own date is known, the record says "reported" and the ledger marks the row with an asterisk, so you know the event may have finished a day or two earlier.
Names appear as printed. A screen name is never expanded into a real one, a country is never added from memory, and a real name goes on the ledger only when the source printed it. Bounties, tickets and seats stay outside the prize column as well; they are listed in the notes or after a plus sign and are never added to the place money.
And nothing goes on the ledger without a source. A figure the desk cannot point to is a figure the desk does not have.
The SharkScope feed
SharkScope tracks tournament lobbies across the major networks and makes the data available through an API. The desk's script asks it for completed tournaments on each network, maps every one onto the record format (network, tournament id, buy-in, entries, prize pool, finishing positions) and writes a record with the API as its source. When the feed is connected the ledger fills up from lobby data on its own; when it is not, the site builds from the hand-compiled records alone. The feed never overrides a published payout table. Where the two differ, the room's own figures win and the note says so. CoinPoker is not tracked by SharkScope, so its records come from published results only.
Updates and corrections
The newest source on file is dated November 4, 2026. Series are updated daily while they run, weekly majors after their finals. A correction means editing the record, which regenerates every page that uses it, and the record's notes say what changed. The desk does not backfill history either. A record added in October carries October sources, and an older event is added only when a payout table for it turns up.
What the site is not
It is not an official results service for any room, and it does not promote any of them. There are no sign-up links, bonus codes or tracking links on any page. It is not a player database; the names on the ledger are the names in the payout tables and nothing more. And it is not a hand database. The replayer plays the files you load into it, and the training hands are written material rather than records of real play.