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Since the Party Poker collapse a few years back, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable head in sheer numbers of internet based poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest cash games, along with the quickest filling sit down and go tournaments online. With that comes power – the power to select your partners, online marketers, and more to our point; acceptable software program.

Long have I been advocating Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re truly the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Lately though, these solutions have pressed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been forbidden from use on that internet site. This is unfortunate news, as a reasonable product, not unlike a few of the appropriate computer software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the biggest poker website on the planet thinks it is too closely similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser operating for you, accumulating and digging through player information and facts that you’ll be able to use on them down the road. The thing is, you don’t have to be at the table for this to happen. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker internet sites, which is over the line of justness, just as in actual life as well.

Except Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only collect information and facts on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you had been wagering in an actual scenario.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an actual alert I was sent from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:

Following an assessment of your account, we come across that you’re running an external software program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, including immediately blocking entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all monies held inside the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".

Hey, did you notice the "confiscating all money" line? That’s what you may do when you are this big!

The "related applications" is the source of the problem. The business that created Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I believe that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate really mine data for these associated programs, although appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lies the crux of the dilemma. When you occur to bet on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you’re out of luck, as I have tried to change this judgment. I received a courteous response from the staff members at Poker Stars, except truly, it isn’t likely to change. The good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable software program checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.