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Poker Calculator Report: Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk Barred by Poker Stars

January 6th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments
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Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable leader in sheer numbers of on-line poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, and the fastest filling up sit and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the strength to choose your partners, affiliates, and more to our point; acceptable software.

Long have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re truly the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been banned from use on that internet site. This is sad news, as a good product, not unlike a number of of the acceptable software program permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker internet site on the planet thinks it’s too closely related to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret agent operating for you, amassing and digging through player details that you’ll be able to use against them down the road. The thing is, you do not have to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For the majority of poker internet sites, that’s over the line of fairness, just as in real life also.

But Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only collect facts 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 was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:

Following an overview of your account, we uncover that you might be using an external application recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its related programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as immediately preventing access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all funds held inside the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".

Hey, did you observe the "seizing all money" line? That’s what you may do whenever you are this large!

The "related applications" is the source of the problem. The company that designed Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I believe that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate truly mine data for these associated programs, whilst appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lies the crux of the trouble. If you occur to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to change this ruling. I received a polite response from the staff at Poker Stars, except definitely, it’s not likely to change. The very good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.

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