Posted by Marilyn | Posted in Holdem | Posted on 13-07-2012
Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable head in absolute amounts of web-based poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the biggest money games, and also the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments online. With that comes strength – the power to pick your associates, affiliates, and nearer to our point; acceptable computer software.
Long have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re truly the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pressed the boundaries of suitable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been restricted from use on that web site. This is sad news, as a good product, not unlike a few of the appropriate software authorized by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the largest poker website on the planet thinks it is too directly related to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret adviser working for you, amassing and digging through player facts that you can use against them at a later date. The factor is, you do not have to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For the majority of poker web sites, that is over the line of justness, just as in actual life also.
Except Holdem Pirate and Hold em Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Hold em Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only acquire facts on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you were wagering in an actual situation.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an authentic forewarning I received from Poker Stars although running Holdem Pirate:
Following an assessment of your account, we uncover that you are using an external application recognizedas 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 immediately preventing entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and seizing all money held inside the relevant Poker Stars "actual money account".
Hey, did you observe the "confiscating all monies" line? That is what it is possible to do whenever you are this large!
The "related applications" is the origin of the trouble. The organization that designed Hawk and Pirate also generate Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate actually mine data for these related products, while appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the core of the trouble. Should you occur to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to reverse this judgment. I received a courteous response from the employees at Poker Stars, except really, it’s not likely to change. The great news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.