A poker HUD counts hands you already played, not the next card

The capture we could read is web.archive.org's 26 December 2024 copy of pokerstars.com/poker/room/prohibited. The live URL did not serve that text on this test.

The capture sorts tools into three groups: permitted at all times, prohibited at all times, and permitted only while the poker software is closed. A book and a lot of play sit on the allowed side of that capture's own introduction.

Permitted items include a report of basic game state, such as pot odds or absolute hand strength. They include a static chart of starting hands for unopened pots. They include numerical stats shown during play, built only from hands you accumulated yourself.

The same paragraph limits those stats: they may not be split by card values, and they may not change automatically because the game state or an opponent's tendency changed. A hotkey may fire a decision you already made, such as a half-pot bet.

A hotkey that picks a random size between half and three quarters of the pot is prohibited. The player, not the macro, chooses the size.

The Poker hub is the cluster for this note. Solver study away from the table is a different activity from a number painted on a felt.

The capture says a database of many players, shared so you can look up someone you have never played, is an unfair advantage. Datamining, which means watching games you are not in so you can store the hands, is prohibited at all times.

Mass sharing of hands, private results, or playing statistics in order to analyze opponents is in the same prohibited list. Sharing hole cards is prohibited. Hosting a live stream is called out as not the same thing as sharing hole cards.

A display that only replays counts from hands you actually played is the narrow permission. It is still not a person, and it is still only a fraction.

Players often call that narrow panel a poker HUD. The capture itself does not require the label.

Playing a single opponent makes each hand a large share of a small sample. The capture does not print a heads-up exception. A private-club app note and a crypto card-room note are other rooms. Their tool rules are not this capture.

Suppose a player truly enters 20% of hands over a long run. In 30 hands the expected count is 6. The usual swing is the square root of 30 times 0.2 times 0.8, which is the square root of 4.8, about 2.19 hands.

Nine hands out of 30 is 30%, which is 3 hands above 6, or about 1.4 of those swings. It is ordinary noise, not a new personality.

Over 300 hands the same 20% expects 60 hands. The swing is the square root of 48, about 6.9 hands, or about 2.3 percentage points. Closer, and still not the next card.

A poker HUD that prints 30% after 30 hands is reporting a short window. The capture prints no minimum sample, so a cutoff of 30, or of 300, is not a room rule. It is arithmetic on this page, and it is not a tell you can trust.

A lead into last street's bettor can show up twice in a short window and look like a habit. Two bets are not a rate.

The capture calls a tool that tells you the action, by reading the current game, cheating. It puts that tool in the prohibited-at-all-times group, next to a program that plays with no human decision.

A human must choose the action and the exact relative size of any bet or raise. Auto-folders are prohibited. Tools that delay a decision by a fixed or random time are prohibited.

Programs that compute range-versus-range equity, ICM, or Nash equilibrium are in the group you must not run while the client is open. A large set of advice tables, beyond a basic open-or-fold chart, is in that same group. The capture does not print a price for any of them.

This page does not tell you how to install a display, a chart, or a banned tool. It does not name a cracked copy, and product names on the lists did not render as text, so they stay unpublished.

A poker HUD in the narrow sense above is not the real-time advisor the capture bans. This page still gives no steps for either one.

On this test, pokerstars.com/poker/room/prohibited returned the FanDuel homepage. A 20 October 2026 allow-list is therefore not published from the live URL.

The archive footer prints TSG Interactive Gaming Europe Limited, Malta registration C54266, and licence MGA/B2C/213/2011 awarded on 1 August 2018. That footer is the December 2024 capture. It is not a fresh reading of a live certificate, because the live URL did not serve the policy.

The capture says the operator may look for prohibited tools running on a computer and may study play. It also says staff do not read browsing history or private files.

Funds may be withheld for bots, for repeating a warning, for bypassing detection, or for privately developed software that breaks the policy. We did not test that enforcement.

A sum of money on a panel is a total of pots, not a salary.

Example 1: the panel says a player won $40 across 30 hands. One pot can be the whole $40. The next hand is not worth $40, and the panel does not owe a repeat.

Example 2: nine entries in 30 hands is 30%, next to a long-run 20% that expects six entries. The extra three hands are inside the swing worked out above. Paying them off as if they were a stable tell is a choice, not a calculation the capture printed.

Example 3: two $50 Coinflip stakes on this site make a $100 pot, the fee is $5, and the winner receives $95. We did not time a cash-out, and a poker HUD is not part of that coin game.

The capture prices no hand. It sorts software. A casino edge is not on it.

How PvP compares: Poker here is a table against other players, and this note does not add a stats panel to it. Fairness recomputes a settled round that publishes a seed. That check does not audit a third-party display, and it does not read a 30-hand sample.

Slott takes 10% of a winning pot. Purple and Silver roulette keep about a 7.88% edge after the 5% win fee. Neither number comes from a heads-up display.

Use the list before you change a bet because of a panel.

• [ ] Count the hands in the window before you read the percent.
• [ ] Treat 30 hands as a noisy fraction, not as a person.
• [ ] Keep stats inside hands you actually played, on the capture's rule.
• [ ] Do not use a shared database of strangers. The capture prohibits that.
• [ ] Do not run a tool that picks the action for you.
• [ ] Do not install anything from this page. It has no steps.
• [ ] Leave product names unpublished when the list did not render.
• [ ] Remember the live URL did not load, so the 2026 wording is not published.
• [ ] Set a loss stop that does not depend on a panel.
• [ ] If the panel becomes a chase, call 1-800-GAMBLER.

The helpline page prints 1-800-MY-RESET and says that line is not a crisis service. A crisis is 911 or 988.

Do not play if you are under 18, or under a higher local age. Do not play where the game is illegal. Do not stake rent or money with a due date.

A percentage is not a tell you can trust after a few dozen hands, and it is not money the next pot owes you. Chasing a number on a screen is the same chase as chasing a card.

This page is an editorial note. We did not open an account, and we did not run a detection check.

Cash-out minimum on this site is $20 in BTC, USDC, or ETH. If the session stops being optional, call 1-800-GAMBLER and open responsible gambling.