Poker Calculator Announcement: Holdem Pirate … Holdem Hawk Banned by Poker Stars
Posted in Poker on 12/04/2012 04:21 pm by Valerie
Since the Party Poker fall a few years back, Poker Stars has surfaced as the undeniable head in sheer numbers of internet poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest cash games, and the fastest filling up sit and go tournaments on the internet. With that comes power – the strength to choose your partners, internet marketers, and nearer to our point; suitable computer software.
Long have I been suggesting Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re really the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly attractive poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pushed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been forbidden from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a respectable product, not unlike some of the appropriate software program allowed by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker internet site on the planet thinks it’s too closely associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret advisor working for you, amassing and mining player data that you may use on them at a later date. The thing 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 most poker sites, which is over the line of justness, just as in real life also.
Except Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These varieties of poker calculators only collect info on your opponents whenever you are at the table, just like you were wagering in a live scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an actual warning I was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Holdem Pirate:
Upon an evaluation of your account, we come across that you might be using an external software program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Holdem 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 money held within the relevant Poker Stars "actual cash account".
Hey, did you observe the "seizing all monies" line? That is what you can do whenever you are this massive!
The "related applications" is the source of the problem. The corporation that designed Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate in fact mine data for these similar programs, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lays the heart of the issue. If you occur to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to change this judgment. I received a courteous reply from the staff members at Poker Stars, except definitely, it isn’t likely to change. The very good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software program checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.