2013
06.28

Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the last poker table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a huge pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest bettors anywhere in the world. While competing in net poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. Gus frequently competes in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of $40, 000. Gus usually buys in for the min of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the min buy in.

Playing for the minimum takes almost all of the ability out of big stack poker. Gus is presumed to be 1 of the best players in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amt.. I believe tv can alter our perception of the real world sometimes. The best players in the world may be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen playing web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in big stakes omaha high and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?

2013
06.28
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Since the Party Poker failure last fall, Poker Stars has come forth as the indisputable leader in sheer amounts of online poker players. They have the biggest tournaments, the most lively tables, the biggest money games, plus the fastest filling up sit down and go tournaments on the web. With that comes strength – the strength to select your associates, affiliates, and nearer to our point; suitable software program.

Lengthy have I been suggesting Holdem Hawk and Hold em Pirate (they are actually the exact same) poker calculators as simple to use and visibly desirable poker calculators. Lately though, these items have pushed the limits of suitable use, at least in the view of Poker Stars, and therefore have been prohibited from use on that web site. This is depressing news, as a respectable product, not unlike a number of of the appropriate software program allowed by Stars, is now essentially grounded because the biggest poker web site on the planet thinks it is too directly associated to an Operative Poker Calculator.

An Operative Poker Calculator is just like a secret adviser working for you, amassing and digging through player information that you can use against them down the line. The thing is, you do not have to be at the table for this to take place. The software (database) is working all the time for you. For most poker sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in real life also.

But Hold em Pirate and Holdem Hawk are really Empirical Poker Calculators, just the same as Holdem Indicator is. These sorts of poker calculators only acquire information on your competitors whenever you are at the table, just like you were playing in an actual situation.

So why the Poker Stars Smack? Here’s a genuine alert I got from Poker Stars whilst running Hold em Pirate:

Upon an assessment of your account, we come across that you are using an external program recognizedas Poker Sherlock, or its related programs, Poker Edge, PokerBotPro, Hold em Hawk and Holdem Pirate……PokerStars shall be entitled to take such action as it sees fit, such as instantly blocking access to the Games to such User, closing such User’s account with PokerStars and appropriating all money held inside the relevant Poker Stars "real money account".

Hey, did you observe the "confiscating all monies" line? That’s what you are able to do when you are this huge!

The "related applications" is the origin of the problem. The company that designed Hawk and Pirate also make Poker Edge and PokerBotPro, which are data miners. In fact, I think that Stars suspects Hawk and Pirate really mine data for these associated products, whilst appearing like an Empirical Poker Calculator on the surface.

So therein sits the heart of the difficulty. In the event you happen to wager on on Stars and have Hawk or Pirate, you might be out of luck, as I have tried to alter this ruling. I got a courteous response from the employees at Poker Stars, except seriously, it’s not likely to change. The very good news though is that Hold em Indicator has been added to Poker Stars appropriate software program list, and it’s the only empirical calculator to be authorized by them.