SpinnGo Pro v1.07 HUD and Pokerstars Changes to Third Party Tools Policy
Pokerstars announced this week some changes to their third party tools policies, which will go into effect on March 4, 2019.
We made necessary changes to make sure that our HUD doesn’t violate any of the rules from Pokerstars Changes Third Party Tools Policy Guide.
Our HUD was reviewed by Pokerstars support team and they confirmed that SpinnGo Pro HUD v1.07 does not violate their Terms of Service!
List of changes in SpinnGo Pro HUD v1.07:
-Push NASH charts removed from 3-Handed HUD
-Call NASH charts removed from 3-Handed HUD
-Push NASH charts removed from Heads Up HUD
-Call NASH charts removed from Heads Up HUD
-We also made some changes in Default HUD Permissions. HUD users are no longer able to make following changes to the HUD:
*Add HUD popups
*Add HUD groups
*Add HUD stats
*Edit item color ranges
*Edit statistic colors
All our customers will receive new modified version of the HUD (SpinnGo Pro v1.07) in the next 24-48 hours so they can continue to use our HUD on Pokerstars after the March 4, 2019.
Our customers may still use our older version of the HUD on other poker rooms (except Pokerstars) or they may request to have the older HUDs removed from their PT4 software. If you want the older HUD removed please send us a request here: spinngo.pro/hud_removal
We advise our customers not to use an older version of SpinnGo Pro HUD on Pokerstars after the March 4, 2019.
If you are using an older version of SpinnGo Pro HUD on Pokerstars after the March 4, 2019 this might be considered as a violation of their Terms of Service.
Pokerstars Changes Third Party Tools Policy On March 4, 2019
What are the changes and what should we pay attention to?
Biggest changes are in following two categories:
-Seating scripts (all seating script that involve game selection are prohibited).
-Starting hand charts and reference material (only basic charts for play in an “unopened pot” can be used, all other charts are prohibited).
-There are also some changes in category: Player Tracking Databases and HUDs,
this is the category that we are mostly interested in so we are going to publish it in full:
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“ Player Tracking Databases and HUDs
1.3) Tools or services that monitor and display numerical-based statistics in-game, but make use of only information that you have accumulated through your own play. Furthermore, there are qualitative limitations on any statistics displayed in-game, such as not being able to be split based on card values. There are also feature limitations of tools and services displaying statistics in-game, such as not being able to automatically change displayed statistics based on game state or opponent tendencies.
We determine that there are two main components to these software packages:
- the tracking application itself, that parses hand histories, stores information in a database and returns ad-hoc user-requested reports.
- Heads-Up Displays (HUDs), that are the in-game retrieval of statistics of players currently at a table. This typically involves panels of information that are overlaid on top of the poker table itself, but does extend to include any information, whether it be an external window or otherwise, that includes information on players participating in the current playing session.
There are virtually no restrictions to what the tracking applications can do with the data in terms of what, how and when data is displayed, providing:
- the tracking application is not used to merely mimic the features of an otherwise prohibited HUD;
- the underlying data only contains information from hands in which the end-user personally participated in.* This includes the editing of client player note files, per a user defined criteria, being acceptable providing this is not done in a real-time, HUD-replicating-like fashion. HUDs may:
- Display an unlimited number of numerical based statistics on the frequencies of specific actions having occurred by the respective player**, providing it is calculated from hands in which the end-user personally participated.
- Include “pop-up” based HUD functionality to further display additional statistics.
- Alter the colour or font of an individual statistic based on two different thresholds. For example, a HUD may show a VPIP statistic in red if it is less than 20%, white if it is between 20%-30% and green if it is greater than 30%. However, the thresholds must be raw values and cannot be dynamically calculated or population-percentile based.
HUDs may not:
- Have statistics that are split based on card values. For example, AGGRESSION FREQUENCY is fine, AGGRESSION FREQUENCY ON FLUSH DRAW BOARDS is not. Similarly, COUNT OF AKO WHEN 3-BET would also be prohibited.
- Dynamically change based on any details of the current game state, aside from game format and opponent usernames. For example, altering statistics shown based on stack sizes or table position is prohibited.
- Dynamically change based on player/opponent tendencies. For example, displaying FOLD TO CBET but only for players that have high folds to continuation bets is prohibited.
- Rate, label, categorise or stereotype players based on their tendencies.
- Display graphical representations of more than one numerical data point. For example, bet size / hand strength scatter plots are prohibited but a 0-100 “temperature gauge” representation of a player’s VPIP is permitted.
- Display statistics or information that is not based upon the corresponding opponent’s details.
For example, displaying any hand chart is prohibited.
* We do allow tracking applications to import a limited number of observed hand histories (up to 30 per playing session), in order to initialise HUD data prior to commencing play. This feature must be tightly controlled and not exploitable by end-users under any circumstances. Failure to ensure this will result in the prohibition of the tool.
** Meaning statistics have to be raw counts of events occurring / count of event opportunities, and not adjusted by other information such as population based tendencies“
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Source:
https://cmsstorage.rationalcdn.com/assets/ps/assets/common/downloads/tpt-reference-guide-march-4.pdf
https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/inside-pokerstars/2019/making-changes-to-our-third-party-tools–179741.shtml
