Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the undeniable leader in absolute amounts of online poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most lively tables, the biggest money games, as well as the fastest filling up sit down and go tournaments on line. With that comes strength – the power to pick your partners, web marketers, and more to our point; appropriate software.
Lengthy have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re actually the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pushed the limits of suitable use, a minimum of within the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been forbidden from use on that site. This is sad news, as a good product, not unlike a few of the acceptable software authorized by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the largest poker website on the planet thinks it is too closely similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is similar to a secret agent operating for you, collecting and digging through player details that it is possible to use against them at a later date. The factor is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For most poker sites, that’s over the line of justness, just as in real life as well.
But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only accumulate data on your opponents whenever you are at the table, just like you had been betting in a live situation.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real alert I received from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:
Following an assessment of your account, we come across that you’re running an external program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, such as instantly blocking access to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all funds held within the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".
Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all money" line? That’s what you can do whenever you are this big!
The "related applications" is the origin of the dilemma. The business that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate in fact mine data for these similar programs, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein sits the core of the difficulty. When you occur to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to alter this ruling. I got a considerate response from the employees at Poker Stars, except truly, it is not likely to alter. The very good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software program list, and it is the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.