Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold’em Pirate … Holdem Hawk Banned by Poker Stars
Posted in Poker on 10/29/2013 10:21 pm by Shelby
Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the indisputable head in pure amounts of online poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest cash games, plus the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments on the net. With that comes power – the strength to choose your associates, online marketers, and closer to our point; acceptable software.
Long have I been suggesting Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they’re really the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly attractive poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pushed the limits of acceptable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been prohibited from use on that internet site. This is depressing news, as a respectable product, not unlike several of the appropriate software program authorized by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker internet site on the planet thinks it’s too closely similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret agent working for you, accumulating and digging through player information that you can use against them later on. The factor is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to take place. The computer software (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker internet sites, which is over the line of justness, just as in actual life as well.
But Holdem Pirate and Hold em Hawk are truly Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Holdem Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only acquire information and facts on your opponents whenever you are at the table, just like you were betting in an actual scenario.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an actual alert I received from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:
Upon an assessment of your account, we discover that you might be running an external software program recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its associated applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, including instantly preventing entry to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all money held within the relevant Poker Stars "real cash account".
Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all money" line? That is what it is possible to do when you are this huge!
The "related applications" is the source of the issue. The business that created Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I believe that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate really mine data for these similar programs, while looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lays the crux of the trouble. If you happen to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to change this ruling. I got a considerate reply from the employees at Poker Stars, but seriously, it’s not likely to change. The excellent news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.