Poker Calculator Announcement: Hold em Pirate & Hold'em Hawk Banned by Poker Stars
Long have I been advocating Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they are actually the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly pleasing poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pushed the boundaries of acceptable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been banned from use on that website. This is sad news, as a respectable product, not unlike some of the suitable software authorized by Stars, is now practically grounded because the biggest poker website on the planet thinks it is too directly related to an Operative Poker Calculator.
An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret agent operating for you, collecting and digging through player information that you can use on them at a later date. The thing is, you don't have to be at the table for this to take place. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker websites, that is over the line of justness, just as in actual life as well.
But Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are truly Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only accumulate details on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you were playing in a live situation.
So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here's a genuine forewarning I got from Poker Stars although running Hold em Pirate:
Upon an assessment of your account, we locate that you are using an external program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate......PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as instantly blocking access to the Games to such User, closing such User's account with PokerStars and appropriating all money held inside the relevant Poker Stars "actual cash account".
Hey, did you notice the "seizing all money" line? That's what it is possible to do when you are this big!
The "related applications" is the source of the trouble. The firm that created Hawk and Pirate also produce Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate in fact mine data for these similar products, although looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.
So therein lies the heart of the issue. Should you take place to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to change this judgment. I received a polite response from the personnel at Poker Stars, but seriously, it is not likely to alter. The good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software program list, and it is the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.