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Since the Party Poker fall last fall, Poker Stars has surfaced as the undeniable head in sheer numbers 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 on the web. With that comes power – the power to choose your associates, affiliates, and closer to our point; suitable computer software.

Lengthy have I been recommending Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are truly the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly attractive poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pressed the limits of suitable use, a minimum of in the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been banned from use on that site. This is depressing news, as a decent product, not unlike a number of of the acceptable computer software allowed by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker site on the planet thinks it’s too closely related to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret advisor working for you, gathering and mining player facts that you can use on them down the road. The factor is, you do not need to be at the table for this to take place. The computer software (database) is working all the time for you. For most poker web sites, which is over the line of fairness, just as in actual life also.

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

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a real warning I got from Poker Stars although running Holdem Pirate:

Following an overview of your account, we uncover that you might be using an external program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted 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 seizing all money held within the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".

Hey, did you observe the "confiscating all funds" line? That’s what you’ll be able to do when you are this big!

The "related applications" is the source of the problem. The organization that created Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate actually gather data for these related products, whilst appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the root of the trouble. When you occur to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have tried to reverse this judgment. I received a courteous response from the staff at Poker Stars, except truly, it is not likely to change. The very good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable computer software list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.