Archive for February 2nd, 2014

Poker Calculator Report: Hold’em Pirate and Hold’em Hawk Banned by Poker Stars

Since the Party Poker fall last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the indisputable head in sheer amounts of internet poker players. They’ve the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest cash games, plus the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments on line. With that comes power – the power to choose your partners, online marketers, and closer to our point; appropriate software program.

Long have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are actually the same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Recently though, these solutions have pressed the limits of suitable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been banned from use on that website. This is unfortunate news, as a reasonable product, not unlike some of the appropriate software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the biggest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too closely associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret advisor operating for you, gathering and mining player facts that you may use on them later on. The thing is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to take place. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker internet sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in actual life also.

Except Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only collect details on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you had been playing in an actual scenario.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real warning I was sent from Poker Stars while running Hold em Pirate:

Following a review of your account, we find that you are using an external software program identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its associated software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, including instantly preventing access to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all monies held inside the relevant Poker Stars "actual cash account".

Hey, did you notice the "confiscating all monies" line? That is what you’ll be able to do when you are this massive!

The "related applications" is the origin of the issue. The organization that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate truly gather data for these related programs, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the heart of the difficulty. Should you occur to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have tried to reverse this judgment. I got a considerate reply from the staff at Poker Stars, except genuinely, it’s not likely to change. The good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.

 

Mac pc Poker

Since the beginning of net poker, Mac pcs have been comparatively ignored. At first it makes sense, the quantity of Personal computer users greatly outnumber Macintosh users. But following looking into it further, Apple pc users might have a considerably higher conversion ratio and there’s other reasons to release Mac pc software as well.

There are hundreds of on line poker rooms now, and less then ten that provide Mac compatible poker software. They don’t develop Mac pc poker software package because they feel it’s not worth it. Judging by the data only about 5 per cent of pc users own Macs. Except realistically, this doesn’t mean the quantity of Macintosh to Computer users playing online poker could be 1/20th.

Several of the Computer system users are from businesses, corporations, and men and women who just use their computer systems for email and Microsoft word. Apple computers target the younger college age generations who are up to date with the latest technology. They’re using Mac pcs for Music, video, graphics, as well as other creative activities. The younger generation also occurs to be the market that windows users are targeting, and because of this the conversion ratio for Macintosh users will be a lot better then Pc users.

When building computer software for PC’s you have to worry about plugging all possible leaks for viruses, worms, and other hacks. There are so a lot of security issues for Pc computer systems that it’s an endless process. You also have to hire additional customer support to deal with the difficulties users will have with Computer system poker software.

Should you create computer software correctly for Mac pc’s it should just work. Apple makes OS X and it’s the only operating system it will run on. Apple computers do not get viruses or spy ware and they’re not prone to having any major security leaks. Right after developing the poker computer software it will be a great deal cheaper to maintain.

You can find a good deal additional reasons for poker web sites to produce Mac pc poker rooms then not. The few rooms that have Mac poker software, like Full Tilt Poker and PokerRoom, have shown an increase in growth. For a poker room to Recognize and diversify them self to all of their feasible customers will show that they are a respectable company.