Poker Calculator Report: Hold’em Pirate … Holdem Hawk Barred by Poker Stars
Posted in Poker on 04/07/2011 02:21 am by Caylee
Since the Party Poker fall a few years ago, Poker Stars has surfaced as the undeniable leader in sheer numbers of web-based poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest money games, and also the fastest filling up sit down and go tournaments on line. With that comes power – the strength to choose your associates, affiliate marketers, and more to our point; appropriate software program.
Long have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re really the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Recently though, these products have pressed the limits of acceptable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been restricted from use on that website. This is sad news, as a decent product, not unlike a few of the suitable software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker website 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, collecting and digging through player facts that you’ll be able to use on them at a later time. The thing is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For most poker web sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in actual life as well.
But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These varieties of poker calculators only accumulate information and facts on your opponents whenever 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 forewarning I received from Poker Stars although running Hold em Pirate:
Upon an overview of your account, we find that you are running an external software program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Holdem 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 seizing all funds held in the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".
Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all monies" line? That is what it is possible to do when you are this huge!
The "related applications" is the origin of the problem. The company that created Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate truly gather data for these related programs, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the heart of the issue. In the event you happen to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this judgment. I received a well mannered reply from the personnel at Poker Stars, except definitely, it’s not likely to change. The good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software checklist, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.