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Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable leader in sheer quantities of on-line poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, and also the quickest filling sit and go tournaments on the internet. With that comes strength – the strength to choose your associates, web marketers, and more to our point; appropriate computer software.
Lengthy have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re in fact the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Lately though, these solutions have pressed the limits of acceptable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been restricted from use on that website. This is unfortunate news, as a decent product, not unlike several of the acceptable software program permitted by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the largest poker web site on the planet thinks it is too directly similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret advisor working for you, accumulating and digging through player information and facts that you may use on them at a later date. The factor is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to occur. The computer software (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker websites, that is over the line of justness, just as in actual life as well.
But Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only gather information and facts on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you had been betting in an actual scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an authentic warning I was sent from Poker Stars while running Hold em Pirate:
Upon an overview of your account, we locate that you’re running an external software program identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its associated applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as instantly preventing access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and seizing all money held in the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".
Hey, did you notice the "confiscating all money" line? That’s what you’ll be able to do whenever you are this big!
The "related applications" is the origin of the issue. The company that designed Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate really gather data for these related products, whilst appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the heart of the trouble. In case you occur to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you’re out of luck, as I have tried to change this ruling. I got a well mannered response from the employees at Poker Stars, except seriously, it’s not likely to change. The great news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.
