Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable leader in absolute amounts of web based poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest money games, and also the fastest filling sit and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the power to choose your partners, affiliate marketers, and more to our point; acceptable software.
Long have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they are truly the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pushed the limits of acceptable use, at least inside the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been banned from use on that site. This is sad news, as a decent product, not unlike a few of the appropriate computer software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker web site on the planet thinks it’s too closely associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser operating for you, gathering and digging through player info that you’ll be able to use on them later on. The thing is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to occur. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker web sites, that is over the line of justness, just as in real life as well.
Except Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only gather details on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you had been betting in a live situation.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a genuine forewarning I was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:
Following an overview of your account, we discover that you are using an external application knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, including instantly blocking access 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 "seizing all money" line? That’s what you may do when you are this huge!
The "related applications" is the source of the issue. The firm that designed Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate actually mine data for these similar products, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the heart of the dilemma. When you happen to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have tried to alter this judgment. I received a well mannered reply from the employees at Poker Stars, but truly, it’s not likely to change. The very good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software checklist, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.
