08.22
Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold em Pirate and Hold’em Hawk Banned by Poker Stars
Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the indisputable head in absolute amounts of internet poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the biggest money games, as well as the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments online. With that comes power – the power to select your associates, online marketers, and closer to our point; suitable computer software.
Long have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re actually the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Recently though, these products have pushed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least inside the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been banned from use on that internet site. This is depressing news, as a decent product, not unlike some of the suitable computer software authorized by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too directly associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is similar to a secret adviser working for you, accumulating and mining player data that you can use against them down the line. The thing is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to occur. The software program (database) is working all the time for you. For the majority of poker internet sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in real life also.
Except Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only gather details on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you had been betting in a live situation.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is a genuine warning I was sent from Poker Stars although running Holdem Pirate:
Following an overview of your account, we locate that you are using an external application identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as immediately blocking access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all funds held within the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".
Hey, did you notice the "seizing all funds" line? That’s what it is possible to do whenever you are this huge!
The "related applications" is the origin of the issue. The business that designed Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate in fact gather data for these related programs, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the root of the difficulty. Should you occur to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have tried to alter this ruling. I got a polite response from the personnel at Poker Stars, but genuinely, it isn’t likely to alter. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable computer software list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.