Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold’em Pirate … Hold’em Hawk Prohibited by Poker Stars

November 5th, 2012 by Jaime Leave a reply »

Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has emerged as the indisputable head in absolute quantities of online poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest money games, as well as the quickest filling up sit down and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the power to select your partners, affiliate marketers, and closer to our point; suitable software program.

Lengthy have I been recommending Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are truly the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these solutions have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, a minimum of within the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been restricted from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a respectable product, not unlike some of the suitable computer software allowed by Stars, is now practically grounded because the biggest poker website on the planet thinks it is too closely associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser working for you, amassing and mining player facts that it is possible to use on them at a later date. The factor is, you do not need to be at the table for this to happen. The software program (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker internet sites, that’s over the line of fairness, just as in real life also.

Except Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are in fact Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Hold em Indicator is. These varieties of poker calculators only collect data on your opponents whenever you are at the table, just like you were playing in a live situation.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an authentic warning I got from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:

Upon an assessment of your account, we come across that you might be running an external software program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, including instantly preventing entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all monies held in the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".

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

The "related applications" is the origin of the problem. The corporation 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 gather data for these similar products, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the crux of the trouble. In the event you occur to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to alter this ruling. I got a considerate response from the staff members at Poker Stars, but genuinely, 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 accepted by them.

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