Since the Party Poker failure a few years ago, Poker Stars has emerged as the undeniable leader in pure amounts of online poker players. They’ve the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the largest money games, along with the quickest filling up sit down and go tournaments on the internet. With that comes power – the power to pick your associates, web marketers, and closer to our point; suitable software program.

Long have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they’re actually the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Recently though, these products have pushed the limits of suitable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been forbidden from use on that web site. This is depressing news, as a respectable product, not unlike some of the suitable software permitted by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the largest poker website on the planet thinks it’s too directly similar to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret agent operating for you, accumulating and digging through player data that you are able to use against them down the line. The thing is, you do not have to be at the table for this to happen. The software (database) is working all of the time for you. For most poker web sites, which is over the line of justness, just as in real life also.

But Hold em Pirate and Hold em Hawk are truly Empirical Poker Calculators, just the exact same as Hold em Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only gather facts on your opponents whenever you are at the table, just like you had been wagering in a live scenario.

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

Following an assessment of your account, we locate that you’re using an external software program knownas Poker Sherlock, or its associated 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 blocking entry to the Games to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars and seizing all money held within the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".

Hey, did you observe the "seizing all funds" line? That is what you are able to do when you are this large!

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

So therein sits the heart of the trouble. In case you happen to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you’re out of luck, as I have tried to reverse this ruling. I got a considerate reply from the staff at Poker Stars, except definitely, it’s not likely to alter. The good news though is that Holdem Indicator has been added to Poker Stars suitable software checklist, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be accepted by them.