• Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold’em Pirate … Holdem Hawk Barred by Poker Stars

    Since the Party Poker fall a few years back, Poker Stars has come forth as the undeniable leader in sheer numbers of web based poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest cash games, and also the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments on line. With that comes strength – the strength to select your partners, web marketers, and more to our point; appropriate software program.

    Lengthy have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they are truly the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Recently though, these products have pressed the limits of acceptable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been forbidden from use on that site. This is depressing news, as a decent product, not unlike some of the suitable software program allowed by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker website on the planet thinks it’s too directly similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.

    An Operative Poker Calculator is similar to a secret adviser operating for you, collecting and mining player information and facts that it is possible to use on them at a later time. The factor is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to occur. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker sites, which is over the line of fairness, just as in real life also.

    Except Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only collect details on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you had been playing in an actual situation.

    So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an authentic warning I got from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:

    Following a review of your account, we come across that you’re running an external application recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, 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, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all funds held within the relevant Poker Stars "actual cash account".

    Hey, did you observe the "confiscating all money" line? That’s what you may do when you are this big!

    The "related applications" is the source of the dilemma. The corporation that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate actually mine data for these similar programs, while appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

    So therein lays the root of the dilemma. Should you happen to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to alter this judgment. I received a considerate response from the employees at Poker Stars, but actually, it is not likely to alter. The great news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable computer software checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.

     August 27th, 2013  Gracelyn   No comments

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