Poker Calculator Report: Hold’em Pirate and Hold’em Hawk Banned by Poker Stars
Posted in Poker on 02/02/2014 03:21 pm by Jessie
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.