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Poker Calculator Report: Hold em Pirate … Hold’em Hawk Barred by Poker Stars

January 26th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments
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Since the Party Poker fall last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the undeniable leader in absolute numbers of net poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest money games, along with the fastest filling up sit down and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the power to select your associates, affiliate marketers, and nearer to our point; suitable software.

Lengthy have I been suggesting Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are really the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Lately though, these solutions have pressed the boundaries of suitable use, a minimum of inside the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been banned from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a good product, not unlike a number of of the acceptable software allowed by Stars, is now practically grounded because the largest poker web site on the planet thinks it is too directly associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret advisor operating for you, amassing and mining player information that you are able to use on them down the line. The thing is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to happen. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker web sites, which is over the line of justness, just as in actual life also.

Except Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only accumulate facts on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you were playing in a live scenario.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is a real warning I was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Holdem Pirate:

Upon an overview of your account, we come across that you’re 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 permitted to take such action as it sees fit, including immediately preventing access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all funds held within the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".

Hey, did you observe the "appropriating all funds" line? That’s what you’ll be able to do whenever you are this large!

The "related applications" is the origin of the trouble. The firm 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 sits the core of the problem. Should you happen to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to alter this ruling. I received a considerate response from the staff at Poker Stars, but definitely, it isn’t 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.

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