South Point Poker Overview
Note: South Point Poker is not yet live for real money play. They are due to open sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Therefore, the review you see here is speculation. It is based on our research and how we feel the site will be ran. Everything will be updated once South Point is live!
Introduced in October, 2012, SouthPoint is the first website affiliated with a brick-and-mortar casino in the United States to legally allow U.S. citizens to play poker on the Internet. Even though only Nevada’s residents and visitors are currently allowed to play poker at SouthPoint, its owner, Michael Gaughan, has repeatedly discussed his plans to partner with other states and foreign countries to increase SouthPoint’s online player pool when it becomes permissible to do so.
Licensed and regulated by the state of Nevada, SouthPoint uses software it developed itself to power its colorful poker room. With graphics based on the South Point Hotel, Casino, and Spa’s physical poker room, players will feel like they are playing cards in an actual casino when they visit SouthPoint.
Setting up an account with SouthPoint only takes as long as you need to type in some personal information and choose a screen name. While it’s not required, SouthPoint does let you upload your own personal avatar if you want to.
Once your account is set up, you can visit the website’s lobby, which decorated with a colorful combination of golds, reds, and burgundies. SouthPoint lists all of its ongoing cash games and tournaments, as well as upcoming competitions, in its lobby and gives you tools to sort and filter the list so you can find a game that you want to participate in.
By far, the most popular game that is played at SouthPoint is NL Texas Hold’em. While you’ll be able to find NL Hold’em games at various stakes no matter when you visit SouthPoint, you may have trouble finding any other type of poker game during off-peak hours. The other types of poker games you can enjoy at SouthPoint include Five Card Stud, Seven Card Stud, Omaha, and Omaha Hi/Lo, among others.
South Point Poker Software & Interface
Note: South Point Poker is not yet live for real money play. They are due to open sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Therefore, the review you see here is speculation. It is based on our research and how we feel the site will be ran. Everything will be updated once South Point is live!
Unlike a lot of other online poker rooms, SouthPoint does not let you play poker in your browser, meaning you must download and install the website’s poker client in order to participate in a ring game or tournament. Much bigger than the 5.86 MB software required to play on SouthPoint’s free-money website, SouthPointPoker.com, SouthPoint’s client still only takes a few moments to download and install. The website’s installation wizard provides step-by-step guidance so even the most inexperienced computer-user will have no difficultly downloading SouthPoint’s software.
If seats are available, you can enter a cash game or poker tournament simply by clicking on the name of the one you want to participate in on the list of games in the room’s lobby. You can participate in more than 14 cash games at once or an unlimited number of SNGs and multi-table tournaments simultaneously. Because the site is new and only Nevada’s residents and visitors can play real-money poker at SouthPoint, you may have difficulty finding enough action to take full advantage of the option to play at multiple tables at once, however, especially during non-peak hours.
SouthPoint’s software lets you resize your tables and change the color of the cards being used at your table. You can also create and maintain a buddy list to record statistics on other card players. And SouthPoint makes it easy for you to review your hand history although you have to wait 24 hours after the end of a game or tournament to do so. SouthPoint’s software will even let you download your hand history in seconds.
SouthPoint Traffic & Action
Note: South Point Poker is not yet live for real money play. They are due to open sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Therefore, the review you see here is speculation. It is based on our research and how we feel the site will be ran. Everything will be updated once South Point is live!
Because SouthPoint’s player pool is limited to only people who are at least 21 years-old and who are physically in the state of Nevada, the action at SouthPoint can be comparatively scant at times. For the most part, people who play poker at SouthPoint know what they are doing, however. Whether it’s because SouthPoint’s poker players are experienced gamblers taking a break from Las Vegas’ casinos or because they have mastered the game through other means, the knowledgeable players certainly outnumber the fish at SouthPoint. You’ll find most of the inexperienced and recreational players at tables with low blinds and in tournaments with small buy-ins. No matter what game or tournament you play in, you will still have to contend with talented players because they seem to play in all of the website’s cash games and a lot of its tournaments.
Probably due to its limited player pool, SouthPoint currently only hosts NL Hold’em poker tournaments. The site does host generous weekly and monthly freerolls for its frequent visitors, though.
SouthPointPoker.com Fish Rating
Note: South Point Poker is not yet live for real money play. They are due to open sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Therefore, the review you see here is speculation. It is based on our research and how we feel the site will be ran. Everything will be updated once South Point is live!
The fish are outnumbered by solid players at SouthPoint. You’ll find most of the vulnerable players at tables with low stakes or in relatively inexpensive tournaments. Even still, once you find a pool of them, you’ll be able to grind things out and make some money.
South Point Poker Bonus & Promotions
Note: South Point Poker is not yet live for real money play. They are due to open sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Therefore, the review you see here is speculation. It is based on our research and how we feel the site will be ran. Everything will be updated once South Point is live!
SouthPoint is currently offering a welcome bonus of 100% up to $600 to all of its new visitors. All you have to do to collect your welcome bonus is: 1) make a qualifying deposit, 2) enter the bonus code, “SOUTHPOINT600,” when you make your first account contribution, and 3) earn the required number of Frequent Player Points, or FPPs, to collect your bonus within the prescribed period of time.
You can earn FPPs by contributing to the rake that SouthPoint collects in the cash games it hosts and/or by paying fees to secure seats in the website’s tournaments. Once you accumulate 15 FPPs, SouthPoint will release $10 of your bonus into your account. You will have six months, or 183 days, to accumulate as many FPPs as you can to collect as much of your welcome bonus as possible. If you don’t accrue enough FPPs to collect the entire bonus you were eligible to receive, the balance of the available bonus will be forfeited.
SouthPoint has a VIP program that rewards players with cash and entry into exclusive events based on the number of FPPs they accumulate in a given calendar month. The program has various levels named after increasingly expensive metals. Unfortunately, because SouthPoint’s player pool is necessarily limited, it is almost impossible to achieve anything other than the program’s lowest VIP level, Copper. And since all of SouthPoint’s real-money players are Copper VIPs once they set up their accounts, pretty much everyone has access to the same VIP benefits which, at the Copper level, are virtually non-existent.
South Point Poker Customer Support
Note: South Point Poker is not yet live for real money play. They are due to open sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Therefore, the review you see here is speculation. It is based on our research and how we feel the site will be ran. Everything will be updated once South Point is live!
Even with a total staff count of just over thirty people, SouthPoint still manages to provide excellent, friendly customer support around the clock. Players can reach one of SouthPoint’s customer service representatives via email, live chat, or telephone 24/7, 365 days per year. While it may take a representative up to 24 hours to respond to an inquiry sent via email, your issue will be addressed immediately if you contact a representative using live chat or your telephone.
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