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

August 10th, 2013 by Zane Leave a reply »
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Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the indisputable leader in absolute amounts of on line poker players. They’ve the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest cash games, and also the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments on-line. With that comes power – the strength to select your associates, affiliate marketers, and closer to our point; acceptable software program.

Lengthy have I been recommending Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are actually the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly attractive poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pressed the limits of suitable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been restricted from use on that website. This is depressing news, as a good product, not unlike a number of of the appropriate software program allowed by Stars, is now practically grounded because the biggest poker web site on the planet thinks it’s too directly related to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret agent working for you, accumulating and digging through player details that you may use on them later on. The thing is, you do not have to be at the table for this to happen. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker websites, which is over the line of justness, just as in real life as well.

Except Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are in fact Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Hold em Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only acquire facts on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you were wagering in a live situation.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an authentic forewarning I received from Poker Stars whilst running Holdem Pirate:

Following an overview of your account, we uncover that you’re running an external software program recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its associated software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as instantly preventing entry to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all monies held within the relevant Poker Stars "actual money account".

Hey, did you observe the "confiscating all money" line? That is what it is possible to do whenever you are this big!

The "related applications" is the origin of the difficulty. The business that designed Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate really mine data for these associated products, although looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the root of the issue. When you happen to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this ruling. I got a courteous response from the staff members at Poker Stars, except definitely, it isn’t likely to change. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software list, and it is the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.

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