Since the Party Poker failure a few years back, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable head in pure amounts of internet based poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest cash games, along with the quickest filling sit down and go tournaments online. With that comes power – the power to choose your associates, affiliate marketers, and nearer to our point; suitable computer software.

Lengthy have I been recommending Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are really the same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly attractive poker calculators. Recently though, these items have pushed the boundaries of suitable use, at least inside the view of Poker Stars, and consequently have been banned from use on that site. This is unfortunate news, as a respectable product, not unlike a number of of the acceptable software program permitted by Stars, is now practically grounded because the largest poker website on the planet thinks it’s too closely similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret advisor operating for you, amassing and mining player info that you are able to use on them at a later date. The factor is, you don’t need to be at the table for this to happen. The software program (database) is working all the time for you. For the majority of poker websites, that’s over the line of fairness, just as in real life as well.

But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are in fact Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Hold em Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only gather data on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you had been playing in an actual situation.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s an actual alert I received from Poker Stars while running Hold em Pirate:

Following an evaluation of your account, we discover 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, including immediately 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 "actual cash account".

Hey, did you observe the "appropriating all monies" line? That is what you may do whenever you are this massive!

The "related applications" is the origin of the dilemma. The business that designed Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate truly gather data for these related products, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein sits the root of the difficulty. In the event you occur to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to reverse this ruling. I got a polite reply from the staff at Poker Stars, but seriously, it is not likely to change. The good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate computer software list, and it is the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.