Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold’em Pirate and Hold em Hawk Forbidden by Poker Stars
November 8th, 2012 at 8:21
Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has emerged as the indisputable leader in absolute numbers of on-line poker players. They’ve the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, along with the quickest filling sit down and go tournaments on the internet. With that comes power – the power to select your partners, affiliates, and more to our point; suitable software.
Lengthy have I been recommending Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re in fact the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pressed the boundaries of suitable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been banned from use on that internet site. This is sad news, as a good product, not unlike a few of the acceptable computer software allowed by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker internet site on the planet thinks it’s too directly similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret adviser working for you, gathering and mining player information and facts that it is possible to use against them later on. The thing is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to take place. 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 actual life also.
But Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Hold em Indicator is. These varieties of poker calculators only collect info on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you had been wagering in a live scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an actual forewarning I received from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:
Upon a review of your account, we discover that you might be running an external software program identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its associated programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, including instantly blocking access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and seizing all monies held within the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".
Hey, did you notice the "seizing all money" line? That is what it is possible to do when you are this large!
The "related applications" is the origin of the issue. The company that created Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate truly mine data for these related programs, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the heart of the issue. In the event you occur to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this judgment. I received a well mannered response from the staff members at Poker Stars, but seriously, it isn’t likely to change. The great news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable computer software list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.