05.20
Poker Calculator Report: Hold em Pirate … Hold’em Hawk Barred by Poker Stars
Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable leader in pure quantities of on-line poker players. They’ve the biggest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest money games, plus the quickest filling up sit down and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the strength to select your associates, online marketers, and more to our point; appropriate computer software.
Lengthy have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re actually the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been forbidden from use on that website. This is unfortunate news, as a respectable product, not unlike several of the suitable computer software authorized by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the biggest poker web site on the planet thinks it is too closely related to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret agent working for you, accumulating and mining player data that you may use on them down the line. The thing is, you do not need to be at the table for this to occur. The 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 real life also.
But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are truly Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only collect info on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you were wagering in an actual scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an actual alert I got from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:
Upon an evaluation of your account, we uncover that you’re using an external program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, including instantly blocking entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all funds held inside the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".
Hey, did you notice the "confiscating all money" line? That is what you can do whenever you are this massive!
The "related applications" is the source of the dilemma. The firm that designed Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate really gather data for these associated programs, whilst appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lays the heart of the difficulty. When you occur to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to change this judgment. I received a polite response from the personnel at Poker Stars, but definitely, it is not likely to change. The very good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.