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Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable head in sheer numbers of internet poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most active tables, the largest money games, and the fastest filling sit down and go tournaments on line. With that comes strength – the power to choose your associates, internet marketers, and closer to our point; suitable software.

Lengthy have I been promoting Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re truly the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Lately though, these solutions have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been banned from use on that web site. This is sad news, as a good product, not unlike a number of of the suitable software program allowed by Stars, is now virtually 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, amassing and digging through player information that it is possible to use on them down the road. The factor is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to occur. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker web sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in actual life also.

But Holdem Pirate and Holdem Hawk are actually Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These kinds of poker calculators only acquire info on your competitors when you are at the table, just like you were betting in an actual situation.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an authentic forewarning I received from Poker Stars while running Holdem Pirate:

Following a review of your account, we find that you are running an external software program recognizedas 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, including instantly blocking access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all monies held within the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".

Hey, did you notice the "appropriating all monies" line? That is 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 suspects Hawk and Pirate in fact gather data for these similar programs, although appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the heart of the difficulty. In the event you happen to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this ruling. I received a polite reply from the employees at Poker Stars, but really, it is not likely to alter. The good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable computer software checklist, and it is the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.