Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the undeniable leader in sheer numbers of on-line poker players. They’ve the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest cash games, and the quickest filling up sit down and go tournaments online. With that comes power – the power to select your associates, affiliate marketers, and nearer to our point; suitable software program.
Lengthy have I been promoting Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they are truly the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pushed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been restricted from use on that web site. This is depressing news, as a respectable product, not unlike some of the acceptable computer software permitted by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker web site on the planet thinks it’s too directly similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is similar to a secret advisor operating for you, gathering and digging through player data that you may use on them down the road. The thing is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to occur. The software (database) is working all the time for you. For the majority of poker internet sites, that’s over the line of fairness, just as in real life also.
But Holdem Pirate and Hold em Hawk are truly Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only acquire facts on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you had been betting in an actual scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real forewarning I was sent from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:
Following an assessment of your account, we find that you are using an external program identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its associated applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem 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 appropriating all monies held in the relevant Poker Stars "actual money account".
Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all funds" line? That’s what you’ll be able to do when you are this large!
The "related applications" is the source of the issue. The corporation that designed Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate actually gather data for these associated products, while appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein sits the core of the issue. When you happen to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this ruling. I got a polite response from the staff at Poker Stars, but definitely, it isn’t likely to change. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.
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