Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the indisputable head in sheer amounts of internet poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest cash games, and the quickest filling up sit and go tournaments on line. With that comes strength – the power to pick your partners, affiliates, and closer to our point; suitable software.

Lengthy have I been advocating Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re truly the same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pressed the boundaries of suitable use, a minimum of within the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been prohibited from use on that web site. This is depressing news, as a good product, not unlike a number of of the suitable software permitted by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the largest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too closely connected to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is similar to a secret agent working for you, amassing and mining player data that you may use against them at a later time. The thing is, you do not need to be at the table for this to occur. The computer software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker sites, that’s over the line of justness, just as in real life also.

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

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is an authentic alert I was sent from Poker Stars whilst running Holdem Pirate:

Upon an assessment of your account, we come across that you’re running an external application knownas Poker Sherlock, or its related applications, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as immediately preventing entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and seizing all funds held in the relevant Poker Stars "actual cash account".

Hey, did you observe the "seizing all funds" line? That’s what you may do when you are this massive!

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

So therein sits the core of the problem. If you occur 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 considerate reply from the staff at Poker Stars, but really, it is not likely to change. The great news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software checklist, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.