Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the undeniable head in pure quantities of web-based poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest cash games, plus the fastest filling sit and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the strength to choose your partners, internet marketers, and more to our point; suitable computer software.
Lengthy have I been promoting Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are actually the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these solutions have pushed the limits of acceptable use, a minimum of within the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been prohibited from use on that site. This is unfortunate news, as a good product, not unlike a number of of the appropriate software allowed by Stars, is now practically grounded because the biggest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too closely related to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret adviser working for you, amassing and mining player data that it is possible to use on them down the line. The thing is, you do not need to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker web sites, that’s over the line of justness, just as in real life as well.
Except Holdem Pirate and Hold em Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only accumulate info 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 is an actual alert I received from Poker Stars although running Hold em Pirate:
Upon a review of your account, we discover that you are using an external application knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, including immediately blocking entry to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all money held inside the relevant Poker Stars "actual money account".
Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all money" line? That’s what it is possible to do when you are this massive!
The "related applications" is the source of the issue. The firm that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate really mine data for these related products, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lays the core of the trouble. When you occur to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you’re out of luck, as I have tried to reverse this ruling. I got a polite reply from the personnel at Poker Stars, but genuinely, it isn’t likely to change. The great news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software list, and it is the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.