Since the Party Poker fall last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the indisputable head in pure quantities of on-line poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, as well as the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments on the net. With that comes strength – the strength to select your partners, online marketers, and nearer to our point; acceptable computer software.
Lengthy have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they are in fact the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Recently though, these products have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been prohibited from use on that site. This is unfortunate news, as a decent product, not unlike several of the appropriate software allowed by Stars, is now practically grounded because the largest poker internet site on the planet thinks it’s too closely connected to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser operating for you, amassing and digging through player facts that you are able to use on them at a later time. The thing is, you do not have to be at the table for this to occur. The software program (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker websites, that’s over the line of justness, just as in real life as well.
But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are in fact Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These varieties of poker calculators only acquire information and facts on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you were wagering in an actual scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an actual warning I was sent from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:
Following an evaluation of your account, we locate that you are running an external application recognizedas 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 preventing entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all money held inside the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".
Hey, did you notice the "seizing all money" line? That’s what you can do when you are this big!
The "related applications" is the source of the trouble. The company that created Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate really mine data for these similar products, although appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein sits the heart of the dilemma. In the event you take place to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you’re out of luck, as I have tried to reverse this judgment. I received a considerate reply from the personnel at Poker Stars, except actually, it isn’t likely to change. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software program list, and it is the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.