Poker Calculator Announcement: Holdem Pirate and Hold em Hawk Forbidden by Poker Stars

January 11th, 2011 Noah Leave a comment Go to comments

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Since the Party Poker fall a few years back, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable head in sheer quantities of internet based poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, and also the fastest filling sit and go tournaments on the net. With that comes strength – the strength to choose your associates, internet marketers, and nearer to our point; acceptable software.

Lengthy have I been recommending Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re in fact the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Recently though, these items have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been banned from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a reasonable product, not unlike several of the suitable software program permitted by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too directly similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser operating for you, gathering and mining player details that you’ll be able to use against them down the road. The factor is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For the majority of poker sites, that is over the line of justness, just as in actual life also.

Except Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only collect details on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you had been playing in a live scenario.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an actual forewarning I was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Holdem Pirate:

Following an overview of your account, we discover that you are using an external software program recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its related programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled 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 confiscating all funds held within the relevant Poker Stars "actual cash account".

Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all monies" line? That’s what you’ll be able to do when you are this big!

The "related applications" is the origin of the issue. The business that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate in fact mine data for these related programs, although looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein sits the heart of the problem. In case you happen to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have tried to change this ruling. I received a considerate reply from the employees at Poker Stars, but genuinely, it is not likely to alter. The good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software program checklist, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.

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