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Since the Party Poker collapse last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the undeniable leader in pure quantities of web-based poker players. They have the largest tournaments, the most lively tables, the biggest money games, plus the fastest filling sit and go tournaments on the net. With that comes power – the power to choose your associates, affiliate marketers, and closer to our point; acceptable computer software.

Lengthy have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Holdem Pirate (they are really the exact same) poker calculators as easy to use and visibly satisfying poker calculators. Lately though, these products have pressed the boundaries of acceptable use, at least within the view of Poker Stars, and hence have been forbidden from use on that web site. This is unfortunate news, as a reasonable product, not unlike a number of of the acceptable software allowed by Stars, is now virtually grounded because the biggest poker website on the planet thinks it’s too closely associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret agent working for you, collecting and mining player info that you may use against them down the road. The thing is, you do not need to be at the table for this to happen. The computer software (database) is working all of the time for you. For the majority of poker web sites, that is 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 same as Hold em Indicator is. These types of poker calculators only accumulate information on your opponents when you are at the table, just like you were playing in an actual scenario.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here is a real alert I received from Poker Stars while running Hold em Pirate:

Following an overview of your account, we discover that you are running an external program identifiedas Poker Sherlock, or its related software, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Hold em Pirate……PokerStars shall be permitted to take such action as it sees fit, including immediately blocking entry to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and confiscating all funds held in the relevant Poker Stars "actual money account".

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

The "related applications" is the origin of the difficulty. The company that created Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. Actually, I think that Stars thinks Hawk and Pirate in fact gather data for these similar programs, whilst looking like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein lays the crux of the dilemma. Should you take place to play on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you are out of luck, as I have attempted to alter this judgment. I received a courteous response from the staff members at Poker Stars, but really, it is not likely to alter. The excellent news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars acceptable computer software list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be approved by them.