Cake Poker has long been a thorn in the side of third party software designers. Determined to prevent any use of poker software or poker calculator aids to their players, Cake Poker has in the past made strategic programming moves to make life difficult for programs like Holdem Manager, Poker Tracker, Poker Office and Hold'em Indicator.

The ongoing issue of the moral side of data mining is still a major concern for one of the industry's biggest foes of this practice, PokerStars. In the latest developments, PokerStars has issued a cease and desist order to Poker table ratings, and less than a day later PTR has complied as reported by Poker News.

Full Tilt Poker software has been shut down for nearly a year now as a result of poker's Black Friday, but a recent purchase of the remnants of that organization has caused speculation in the industry, that yes, Groupe Bernard/Pocket Kings will resurrect the battered brand. Poker News has an article about it here.

The Indicator Group of programmers has announced today that Holdem Indicator poker software has been updated to be compatible with Poker Stars' recently released ZOOM Poker tables. Just as it was when RUSH poker was announced in 2010, Holdem Indicator is the first third party software product to fully support the game without any limitations.

Recently, some poker software operators have offered different levels of ID changing for it's online player database. Such as feature allows for two major implications in the game. By changing your own ID at certain intervals, you essentially become an unknown. Imagine going into a poker room you have been frequenting for years and everyone at all of the tables had a paper bag over their head. Anonymous poker, indeed.

Since Tournament Indicator poker software added the replayer feature I have started using it more and more to not only analyze my own play, but to analyze the situation from the perspective of my opponents as well. With all of the profiling data available I can now review with a much better grasp with what type of players I am dealing with too. So here is a typical situation that I tend to look over once the tournament is done, to see if I, or my opponents could have played better. Would you beleive.... pocket Jacks? ;-)

What looks to be a complete overhaul of Holdem Manager, HM2 is now in BETA available by application. The release was announced on the Holdem Manager blog along with a video showing hi-lights of the new update.