Poker Calculator Announcement: Holdem Pirate and Hold’em Hawk Prohibited by Poker Stars
July 16th, 2012 at 19:21
Since the Party Poker failure a few years back, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable leader in absolute numbers of internet poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest money games, along with the quickest filling up sit down and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the strength to pick your associates, affiliates, and more to our point; suitable software program.
Lengthy have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re actually the same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pushed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been banned from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a reasonable product, not unlike some of the suitable computer software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the biggest poker website on the planet thinks it’s too closely associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret adviser operating for you, accumulating and digging through player information and facts that you may use on them down the road. The thing is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to take place. The computer software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker internet sites, that is over the line of justness, just as in real life also.
But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Hold em Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only collect info on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you had been wagering in a live scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real alert I got from Poker Stars although running Hold em Pirate:
Upon an assessment of your account, we come across that you might be running an external software program recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, such as immediately blocking access to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all money held in the relevant Poker Stars "actual money account".
Hey, did you notice the "seizing all money" line? That is what you are able to do when you are this big!
The "related applications" is the source of the trouble. The business that designed Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate in fact mine data for these associated programs, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein sits the root of the issue. When 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 considerate response from the staff at Poker Stars, but genuinely, it isn’t likely to change. The very good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.