Poker Calculator Report: Hold’em Pirate … Hold em Hawk Forbidden by Poker Stars
September 12th, 2013 at 17:21
Since the Party Poker fall a few years ago, Poker Stars has come forth as the undeniable head in pure numbers of net poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the biggest cash games, and also the fastest filling sit down and go tournaments on the net. With that comes strength – the power to choose your associates, internet marketers, and nearer to our point; acceptable software program.
Lengthy have I been recommending Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re really the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pushed the limits of acceptable use, at least inside the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been forbidden from use on that internet site. This is depressing news, as a reasonable product, not unlike a number of of the appropriate computer software authorized by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the biggest poker web site on the planet thinks it is too closely connected to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret advisor working for you, amassing and mining player data that you are able to use against them down the road. The factor is, you do not have to be at the table for this to occur. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker web sites, that’s over the line of fairness, just as in real life as well.
But Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only gather details on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you were betting in an actual scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real warning I was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:
Upon an evaluation of your account, we uncover that you are using an external program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted 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 appropriating all money held within 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 whenever you are this large!
The "related applications" is the source of the trouble. The company that designed Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate really gather data for these associated products, while appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lays the crux of the trouble. Should you happen to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you’re out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this ruling. I received a considerate response from the personnel at Poker Stars, but genuinely, it isn’t likely to alter. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.