23 Feb 11

Since the Party Poker failure a few years ago, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable head in absolute numbers of online poker players. They’ve the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest cash games, and also the quickest filling sit down and go tournaments on the internet. With that comes strength – the strength to pick your associates, web marketers, and more to our point; acceptable software.

Lengthy have I been promoting Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re actually the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Recently though, these solutions have pressed the limits of acceptable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been banned from use on that web site. This is depressing news, as a respectable product, not unlike some of the acceptable software program authorized by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker website on the planet thinks it is too directly associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is similar to a secret adviser working for you, amassing and mining player information that you may use against them down the line. 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 most poker internet sites, that is over the line of justness, just as in real life as well.

Except Holdem Pirate and Hold em Hawk are in fact Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only acquire information on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you had been betting in a live scenario.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an authentic alert I was sent from Poker Stars while running Hold em Pirate:

Following an assessment of your account, we come across that you might be running an external program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated applications, 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 seizing all money held within the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".

Hey, did you observe the "confiscating all monies" line? That’s what you can do whenever you are this large!

The "related applications" is the source of the dilemma. The business that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate actually gather data for these associated programs, whilst appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the heart of the problem. If you take place to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to alter this ruling. I got a well mannered reply from the staff at Poker Stars, but truly, it isn’t likely to change. The good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.


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