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South Point Poker Room Review Last updated: 08/29/08 Sponsored Advertisement Phone: (702) 797-8073 Web: http://www.southpointcasino.com Email: Address: 9777 Las Vegas Blvd South Editor's Review South Point Poker Room News South Point Poker Room Information Tables: 11  Full Tilt Poker 100% Deposit Bonus up to $600! Use Code: ALLVEGAS. Full Tilt Poker Betting Limits:
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Weekend Wait-Time: Weekdays < 15 minutes Weekends < 30 minutes Smoking Allowed: No Poker Room Rate: Yes $45 Sunday-Thursday $85 Friday-Saturday 4 hours of cash game play per day required to qualify Editor's Review - South Point Poker Room Total Rating: 3.55 Room Quality Rating: 3 The South Point poker room, located in the southwest corner of the casino, is a poker “area”, walled on two sides, and half walls enclosing the room. This space allotted to poker is quite substantial, and thus all tables are well spread out from each other, allowing quite of bit of room for all players to lean back and maneuver between the tables. All 11 tables have auto shufflers, and all games are spread 10 handed. The chairs are substandard considering the modern norm. The chairs are leather, with wheels, but not adjustable or swivel. The room aesthetics are quite plain, but there are several plasma widescreen televisions on both walls of the room, which makes sports viewing quite easy. Also, the South Point Sports book is open 24 hours a day, and is located directly next to the poker room, so sports betting is quite easy. The color palatte of the room is gold and red accents (including dark burgundy felts). All tables have a betting line. Restrooms are very conveniently located alongside the poker room, and valet parking puts customers quite close to the room itself, though self parking is a decent walk, especially for a local’s room. The general layout of the room is rather plain, since it is a rectangular room with half walls, but the room itself serves its purpose and accomplishes its obvious goal of simply offering poker to its customers. This is very much a “no frills room” that sticks to the basics, and offers a convenient and comfortable place to play cards. South Point offers tableside food service from the room service menu, and can be paid for with earned poker room comps. The food is delivered directly to the table, and set on a chair (unfortunately, side tables are not available). The food is quite good, and reasonably priced. The room quality is slightly marred by some of the rules that the room has implemented. The room does not allow the buying of the button nor does it allow straddling to make up the blinds. Cel phones are prohibited, and the room is not mixed game friendly. They will not spread any high low split games, draw games, or the like. They are limited to limit and NL Hold’em, as well as Omaha and Stud High (though 100% of the time, this room spreads Hold’em only). Competition Rating: 4 For a local’s casino, the South Point poker room has a quality competition level that rivals many Strip properties. The players here, especially the locals, are quite loose, and often very weak. Many buy in short, lose after an all in, and insta rebuy. This is easily the softest local’s room I have ever played in, and is one of the softer rooms in Vegas, even when comparing to all Strip properties. The NL game has a $100-$300 buy in, and has many casino employees and south side locals’ playing cards, often making the games loose and wild. Straddles are common, and the pots sizes are often quite large considering it is a basic 1/2 blind NL game. Though this reviewer has played on all shifts, the best games are found on Swing shift (after 7PM) as well as graveyard (standard for the industry). Dealer Rating: 4 The dealers at South Point Poker Room vary greatly in quality and overall competence from shift to shift. Though the majority of the South Point dealing staff is very competent, quick, and friendly, there are a few that still struggle with basic hand reading, side pot calculations, and are painfully slow. This reviewer usually plays on graveyard, where all dealers seem to be well versed in game control and proper dealing procedure. Very few to any break-in dealers are found on this shift. Cocktail Rating: 5 Cocktail service at the South Point poker room rivals that of the best Strip casinos. All premiums are available, including Pellegrino water and Red Bull. The cocktail servers are very quick, and will serve more than one drink most of the time. There are only two cocktail servers in Las Vegas that this editor will tip $5 minimum every time, and one of them, Ashley, works at South Point (the other is Andrea who works at Treasure Island). Ashley is the definition of class, competence, speed, intellect, and personality, and is a true model for all cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas. She alone adds significant credibility to the cocktail service of the entire South Point resort. South Point is non-union for their cocktail servers, so all are young and attractive model quality. Overall, the cocktail service is one of the strongest points of the South Point poker room. Management Rating: 4 The management of the South Point poker room is above standard for most poker rooms in Las Vegas. Though they do have some rather antiquated rules and their list management system is quite old fashioned (paper and pen), the management staff is quite friendly, open, and is knowledgeable about poker, and able to make informed and correct decisions. Their antiquated rules include disallowing the buying of the button, inability to post a straddle to make up the blinds, and the flat out unwillingness to start a non-hold-em game, even with a full table of players wanting to play. When South Coast became South Point, the rake was increased to $4 + $1, from the Coast standard of $3 +$1. This can be justified due to the vast majority of poker rooms in Vegas charging $4+1 per hand in their games. The remaining Coast properties, with the exception of Sam’s Town, still charge $3 +1 (this includes Orleans, Gold Coast, and SunCoast). Perry, the Graveyard Shift Manager and known AVP Member, is quite a character, and adds significant credibility to the room. His long term background as a poker player helps immensely with proper player and room management. His list management and balancing of tables (as new players enter) protect the existing games and allows more games to start without fear of losing action. He is one of the few poker room operators that can properly handle a paper list management system as quickly if not more quickly than the electronic Bravo system that many poker rooms utilize. Steve is another manager the easily deserves recognition. He is another individual that truly understands the Vegas local's mindset, and runs the room in a way that makes players comfortable and glad to be there. Steve is also an AVP member. The room could use some technology. The comps could use significantly better tracking to be on par with other local’s casinos (including having the ability to swipe players’ cards at the table); though the system they currently use is on par with the other Coast properties (remember that South Point was formerly South Coast). Overall, the management ranks as 4 out of 5. Once the unnecessary rules are removed (including the cel phone use, blind buying etc), and some better technology is added, this room will easily improve to a 5 rating for management. Comps Rating: 3 The South Point poker room gives $1.25 an hour for the first 4 hours, then .50 an hour for the remaining hours, up to a $9 per day cap. This is better than nothing, but that is not saying much. Offering a flat $1 per hour, uncapped, would put them in with the standard within their industry. I have never understood why a casino would choose to cap its comps given to players. If someone chooses to play an 18 hour session, why cut them off for comps after a certain hour? It is similar to punishing them for playing a long time in the room, and that simply does not make sense. South Point does offer a good poker rate for customers staying in the hotel, for only 4 hours of play per day (cash game play). They also offer high hand jackpots which are taken from the jackpot drop. Their high hand system is a bit odd, though. Instead of each straight flush being progressive, the straight flushes are paid by suit; however the quads are paid by rank. Their hourly comps, are quite versatile, and can be used anywhere in the casino, including the gift shop. The only exception is the movie theatre, which is a leased department, and thus cannot accept casino comps. Overall, the comps offered by South Point are not that great, but not that bad either. It is definitely worth it to get a poker comp card when you visit, as they do add up rather quickly. South Point Poker Room News Massive expansion planned at South Point casino! Date: 09/20/08 Summary:South Point Hotel and Casino, located South of Mandalay Bay on Las Vegas Blvd is planning a massive expansion of its casino and poker room! South Point Poker Room Editor Review is now posted! Date: 08/30/08 Summary:The South Point Hotel and Casino offers an 11 table poker room to its locals and visitors, and the room now has a full Editor Review on AVP! South Coast Starts $37 No Limit Poker Tournaments Today. Date: 01/16/06 Summary:South Coast poker room now offering $37 buy-in no limit Texas Hold’em tournaments daily at 10:00 AM. Opening Review: South Coast Poker Room Las Vegas: Tournaments, Texas Hold'em, Cocktail Waitresses Date: 12/23/05 Summary:South Coast Las Vegas opens its doors and reveals a very average poker room. It is annoyingly loud inside, and the poker tables were built with fatal black holes that will suck up your cards and chips. Oh well, at least the cocktail waitresses are smoke’n hot! |
South Point Poker Room Player Reviews Summary of Player Reviews: Overall: 3.16 Room Quality: 2.82 Competition: 3.36 Dealer Rating: 3.36 Cocktail Rating: 4.23 Management Rating: 3.23 Comps Rating: 3.00 Great off-strip room By: zzjitterzz 06/19/08 Decent off-strip room By: oksooners 04/11/08 South Point mid-week By: geoduck 04/04/08 A place Benny would be proud of By: Texastourist 03/18/08 Super Bowl Weekend at SP By: Omnibot 02/21/08 Good Action. Below par room By: calikid 02/07/08 OK time at South Point By: Taz007 12/31/07 Five days of 1-2 NLHE By: ACG2x 07/30/07 Great tournament and great staff By: T-MaQ 07/02/07 Just a bad Poker room By: lozen 04/30/07 Lots of locals, but relatively soft By: KngKonga 11/20/06 Great staff, tough crowd! By: Johnny Vegas 07/02/06 South Coast poker review By: lveric 06/11/06 Good Tournaments and Godd N/L By: Disco Stu 05/13/06 Too early in the morning By: OCD 04/30/06 Beware of the STRONG odors!! By: bowlingfool 03/05/06 A locals joint...that is all. By: Photoc 02/22/06 I'd wait for their "real room" By: blnewt 01/21/06 Trying, But Not There yet, . . . By: Cartman 01/21/06 Waiting on the new room...the real room By: grdred944 01/06/06 Very Dissapointed By: thenuts 01/06/06 Nothing going for it By: stabbing_the_drama 12/23/05 Trip Reports About South Point Poker Room 5 Days of Poker, Poker & more Poker! 01/21/06, Player: blnewt For Rooms: Aladdin,Orleans,Palms,Silverton,South Point, 16 nights in Vegas 01/31/06, Player: dewey089 For Rooms: Bally's,Binion's,Caesars Palace,El Cortez,Golden Nugget,Imperial Palace,Orleans,Paris,Plaza,South Point,Stratosphere, Strip Poker In Vegas! 07/28/06, Player: Lucky Duck For Rooms: Aladdin,Caesars Palace,Green Valley Ranch,Harrah's,Imperial Palace,Rio,South Point,Treasure Island (TI), Venetian Tournaments + 1-2 NL = Lots of $$$ and fun 02/24/07, Player: k9dr For Rooms: Aladdin,Bellagio,Luxor,Mandalay Bay,Monte Carlo,South Point,Venetian, Fun Six Day Poker Run 04/11/07, Player: borgatabud For Rooms: Green Valley Ranch,MGM Grand,South Point,Venetian,Wynn, Guys weekend in Vegas 04/17/07, Player: briggek8717 For Rooms: MGM Grand,South Point,Treasure Island (TI), Aces vs. Kings heartbreak and a bizarre ruling 07/18/07, Player: cardbard For Rooms: Green Valley Ranch,Mirage,Orleans,Planet Hollywood,South Point, Taz's Trip Report 12/25 - 12/30 12/26/07, Player: Taz007 For Rooms: South Point, Bachelor Party / Super Bowl - Weekend Getaway... 02/21/08, Player: Omnibot For Rooms: Golden Nugget,South Point, 4th Trip in less than 3 years 03/30/08, Player: Check_Raise_Riz For Rooms: Bellagio,Caesars Palace,Fitzgeralds,Luxor,Mirage,Planet Hollywood,Red Rock,Riviera,South Point,Tropicana,Venetian, South Point all-nighters and to many Long Islands! 4/24-4/27 04/27/08, Player: meekamouse For Rooms: Planet Hollywood,South Point, Week In Vegas 06/01/08, Player: jiminva For Rooms: Mandalay Bay,South Point, Excellent Adventure 9 - A romantic night in Laughlin 08/13/08, Player: SouthPointPerry For Rooms: South Point, First poker trip to vegas 08/16/08, Player: gregajacobson For Rooms: Caesars Palace,Monte Carlo,Planet Hollywood,Red Rock,Rio,South Point,Stratosphere,Treasure Island (TI), Weekend of Full poker Thursday to Sunday 08/25/08, Player: TK_Poker7 For Rooms: Excalibur (Live),Hooters,MGM Grand,South Point, |
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