Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Poker Room Review

Soaring Eagle online gambling partnerships

Soaring Eagle Gaming, the Saginaw Chippewa tribe’s gaming arm, launched its internet gaming and sports betting site, Eagle Casino & Sports, on April 14, 2022.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort partnered with platform provider GAN to launch its online product.

Eagle Casino & Sports became Michigan’s 15th online gaming platform and offers more than 100 slot options and over a dozen table games. That includes live-betting roulette, blackjack and baccarat through a partnership with Evolution.

The casino at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

The 210,000-square-foot casino at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort is open 24 hours.

It features more than 4,400 slots and video poker games, 70 table games, a bingo hall and a poker room.

Plus, the Slot Palace and VIP High Limit and smoke-free gaming areas.

That means one of the largest selections of slots and table games in Michigan, in addition to bingo and live poker action.

The casino at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort runs a variety of promotions, including:

• Bonus Play Payday: Player card points bonuses.
• Leap Into Cash: Win $100,000.
• ACCESS Mobile Earn & Win: Earn and win your way to 15,000 reward points.
• Earn Some, Win Some
• Pick Your Prize
• Seniors Day Giveaway: Three $500 Premium Play winners each hour.
• Hot Seat Frenzy: Win $500 in Premium Play on Hot Seat Frenzy Sundays.
• Payout Party: Win a jackpot of $1,200 or more and get invited to the Payout Party.

Slots

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort is home to more than 4,400 slots and video poker machines

All the latest classic reel and video slot machines can be found, including progressive jackpot slots, on the main gaming floor and the Slot Palace.

Bingo

The Soaring Eagle Bingo Hall is the largest in Michigan. Bingo runs Wednesday through Sunday with morning, afternoon and evening sessions featuring traditional paper and electronic bingo units.

Bingo promotions include Super Saturdays with new ways to win, Birthday BINGO offering you $10 in BINGO Bucks and a special dauber on your birthday, a Bingo Millions Coverall Add-On, and several progressive jackpots offering the chance to win up to $50,000.

Table games

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort has more than 70 table games. That means everything from casino game classics to progressive jackpot games.

Table games at Soaring Eagle include:

• Blackjack
• Craps
• Roulette
• Single Zero Roulette
• 3 Card Poker
• Chase The Flush
• Criss Cross Poker
• Ultimate Texas Hold ’em
• Let It Ride
• Crazy 4 Poker
• Mississippi Stud

Access Club loyalty program

Access Club is the Soaring Eagle Casino player loyalty program. Access Loyalty Cards are free to anyone 21 or older.

Members can earn and redeem points for Premium Play and Reward Dollars at Soaring Eagle properties, including:

• Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
• Saganing Eagles Landing Casino
• Soaring Eagle Waterpark & Hotel
• Waabooz Run Golf Course & Hideaway RV Park

Points earned based on every $1 cash or credit spent:

• Slots = 2 Points
• Video poker = 1 Point
• Hotel room or RV space = 10 Points
• Bingo = 20 Points
• Dining, spa, golf, gift shops, shows = 4 Points

Every 1,000 points is worth $1 in Premium Play for slots, table games or bingo. Every 500 points is worth $1 in Rewards Dollars that can be used for spa services, dining outlets, the hotel and concert tickets

Additional rewards can be unlocked, including:

• Personalized direct mail offers
• Premium Play for slots and table games
• Dining Dollars
• Complimentary overnight stays
• Exclusive invitations to tournaments and VIP events

Soaring Eagle Sportsbook

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort opened the Ascend sports bar and nightclub in 2018 knowing that legal sports betting in Michigan was a distinct possibility in the not-so-distant future.

In January 2020, with Michigan sports betting laws finally passed, Soaring Eagle Casino officials said Ascend would be the property’s new sportsbook location when it opened. That happened on April 4, 2022 with the opening of Ascend Sportsbook.

Ascend advertises itself as the place to be for televised sporting events and live entertainment. There are several large-screen TVs and plenty of seating, in addition to food and drinks.

The venue has the ability to show sports and is a comfortable spot to watch a game. Inside the sportsbook and restaurant you can find 25 televisions, 14 self-betting kiosks and two in-person betting windows.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort officials built off the opening of Ascend Sportsbook by launching Eagle Casino & Sports on April 14, 2022.

Partnered with platform provider GAN, it has met Michigan’s regulatory requirements for licensing and is live now. It’s phone application launched in late May of 2022.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort officials view retail sports betting as an entity that can drive more people to the property and that online wagering will be an option for those who cannot travel there.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort poker room

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort is home to a newly renovated smoke-free 18-table poker room.

The room offers Texas Hold ’em, Pineapple, Crazy Pineapple, Omaha, Seven Card Stud, Razz and multi-game cash play and tournaments.

The poker room is open Sunday -Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 1:45 a.m. and Friday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 3:45 a.m. with promotions (Royal Flush Steel Wheel Bonus, High Hands) and some regular tournaments (Deep Stack, Bounty, Dead Hand Walking).

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort amenities

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort has gone through two major renovations. In 2011, the buffet was re-branded and a 24-hour diner launched. In 2018, a $26.5 million renovation project was completed, creating a new high limit gaming and VIP lounge, poker room, sports bar and nightclub, and enclosed non-smoking gaming area, redesigning children’s areas, updating the entertainment hall, and rebranding the sub shop.

The Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Hotel

Soaring Eagle is home to a 514-room hotel. Accommodations include:

• Premium suites
• Superior rooms
• Deluxe jacuzzi rooms
• Deluxe fireplace rooms
• First class rooms

All the rooms are undergoing renovations in phases that are expected to be complete in 2022.

Hotel amenities also include:

• 2,400-square-foot “free form” pool
• Indoor and outdoor whirlpool spa
• Full-service spa

Dining and entertainment

The Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort is serious about dining and entertainment, with nine restaurants, bars and eateries, two massive concert venues, and a sports bar and nightclub:

• Ascend Sports Bar & Nightclub: The place to be for select televised sporting events and live entertainment. Plus, the property’s sportsbook.
• Siniikaung Bistro: A upscale restaurant which “combines the American Bistro experience with an innovative cocktail menu and modern interpretations on classic dishes made from scratch using only the most fresh international ingredients.”
• Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse: Famed steakhouse chain.
• Aurora Buffet: Familiar favorites and world cuisine for lunch or dinner.
• Central Deli: Deli-style comfort foods.
• Native Grind Coffee Shoppe: Coffee and cafe-style menu.
• SLICE!: Pizza by the slice.
• The Entertainment Hall: Converted bingo hall, now a concert venue with 3,260 reserved seating and space for 3,285 in general admission.
• Soaring Eagle Outdoor Arena: Amphitheater hosting the Outdoor Concert Series with 5,089 reserved seats and space for 11,000 in general admission.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort history

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort opened as a casino in 1996. The resort part came in the form of a 500-plus-room hotel added in 1998.

Already owners of one of the largest casinos in the state, members of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation proved they were serious about entertainment options at the property when they converted a former bingo hall into The Entertainment Hall concert venue in 2000.

Five years later the commitment continued with the launch of the Soaring Eagle Outdoor Arena amphitheater in 2005 and the launch of the summer A-list Outdoor Concert Series.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort underwent a renovation in 2011 with the Firefly Buffet re-branded as Aurora Buffet and remodeled, providing space for the launch of the 24-hour Legends Diner.

In 2017, the tribe announced plans for a massive $26.5 million renovation.

A new sports bar and nightclub and a new high-limit and VIP lounge area came alongside Entertainment Hall renovations, the enclosing of the casino’s non-smoking area, and a re-designing of the Kid’s Quest and Cyber Quest areas. The poker room was also relocated and the sub shop re-branded. It all opened in 2018.

In January 2020, with Michigan sports betting laws finally passed, Soaring Eagle Casino officials announced the new sports bar and nightclub will soon become the property’s new sportsbook. That opened on April 4, 2022 and is called Ascend Sportsbook.

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort launched its online sportsbook and casino, Eagle Casino & Sports on April 14, 2022. The phone app launched in late May of 2022.

Plus, the tribe began a hotel remodeling project expected to take until 2022 to complete. The renovation will include new hotel rooms and infrastructure. Construction will be done in phases.