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PokerStars Announces Changes That Will Restrict Various Third-Party Software

The world biggest real-money online poker room, PokerStars, has announced changes to its policy, which will restrict or prohibit many third-party poker software and other tools.

In a lengthy TwoPlusTwo thread titled 3rd Party Software on PokerStars: Proposed Rule Changes, PokerStars Sit & Go and Tournament Manager Baard Dahl announced changes expected to take place as early as Oct. 1.

"Reference material, such as starting hand charts, now have to be 'basic in nature,'" Dahl began. "Anything considered to be sophisticated in nature can no longer be used whilst the client is open.