06.01
Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold’em Pirate and Holdem Hawk Forbidden by Poker Stars
Since the Party Poker fall last fall, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable head in pure quantities of net poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, along with the fastest filling sit and go tournaments on line. With that comes strength – the power to select your partners, web marketers, and nearer to our point; acceptable software program.
Long have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re truly the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Recently though, these products have pressed the limits of acceptable use, at least inside the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been prohibited from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a respectable product, not unlike a number of of the suitable computer software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too directly associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser operating for you, gathering and digging through player info that it is possible to use on them down the road. The thing is, you do not need to be at the table for this to take place. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For most poker websites, which is over the line of fairness, just as in actual life also.
Except Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These varieties of poker calculators only gather information on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you had been playing in an actual situation.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is a genuine alert I was sent from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:
Upon an assessment of your account, we discover that you’re running an external program identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its related programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, such as instantly blocking access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and seizing all money held in the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".
Hey, did you observe the "seizing all funds" line? That’s what you can do when you are this large!
The "related applications" is the source of the dilemma. The organization that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate in fact mine data for these related programs, while appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein sits the core of the difficulty. When you occur to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have tried to change this ruling. I got a considerate response from the employees at Poker Stars, except truly, it isn’t likely to alter. The great news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.