Posted by Reid | Posted in Poker | Posted on 04-05-2013
Since the Party Poker failure a few years back, Poker Stars has surfaced as the undeniable leader in sheer quantities of online poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most lively tables, the biggest cash games, and the quickest filling up sit down and go tournaments online. With that comes power – the strength to choose your partners, affiliates, and closer to our point; acceptable software.
Lengthy have I been advocating Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re truly the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Recently though, these items have pressed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been forbidden from use on that site. This is unfortunate news, as a respectable product, not unlike a few of the acceptable computer software authorized by Stars, is now practically grounded because the largest poker internet site on the planet thinks it is too directly related to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret adviser operating for you, accumulating and mining player data that you are able to use against them at a later time. The factor is, you do not need to be at the table for this to take place. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker internet sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in actual life as well.
Except Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are in fact Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only collect information and facts on your opponents whenever you are at the table, just like you were playing in a live scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real forewarning I received from Poker Stars although running Hold em Pirate:
Following an overview of your account, we uncover that you are using an external software program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em 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 confiscating all money held in the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".
Hey, did you observe the "appropriating all monies" line? That’s what you’ll be able to do when you are this big!
The "related applications" is the origin of the problem. The organization that designed Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I believe that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate actually gather data for these related programs, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the heart of the problem. When you take place to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to change this ruling. I got a polite reply from the staff at Poker Stars, but definitely, it is not likely to change. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable computer software checklist, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.