Prizes For Casino Night
Should additional tickets be introduced, prize levels and frequency of winning will be consistent with the following disclosures: In the CASINO NIGHT Instant Game, New Jersey allocates approximately 65% of the gross receipts to prizes. On the average, better than 1 ticket in 4 wins a prize. We've got amazing prizes from Alamo and ALL OVER AUSTIN! You can win movie date night packages from Alamo, Karaoke night packages from Highball, passes to the Bob Bullock, food from Gourmond's Pub, Italic, and Foreign and Domestic - plus two week yoga passes from sanctuary yoga! What's happening before Casino Night.
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You don’t have to give away prizes. Casino Theme Parties are very exciting, even when you just turn in your chips at the end. Of course, awarding prizes can make your casino theme party even more exiting. There are a few things to consider when choosing your prize pool and method of awarding prizes. I recommend you coordinate with your Casino party event planner if you would like to award prizes.
Casino Night Prize Awarding Methods
There are several ways to award prizes at a casino theme party. I recommend choosing one of the following with the standard raffle being my favorite.
The best way to raise funds with our casino is to sell tickets for your event. Ticket sales should make a profit, cover our fixed fee and also any other options such as a DJ, Band or Food. On the night the entry ticket should include a set amount fun money (Usually around $200) to help get your guests started on the tables. Casino Night Door Prize Gift Basket: Red Diamond Shiraz, Wine Glasses, Poker Chips, Dice, Cards, Poker Night Party Music CD, Million Dollar Chocolate Bars, casino coins and Candies wrapped in Dice like paper found at Party Store. I still say I am not creative but this was a fun basket to put together. Clocks with a poker theme like 'Crazy Jack's Casino' that light up can be found at Bed Bath and Beyond for like $15. If you buy decks of cards wholesale they're less than a dollar a pack.
The Standard Raffle: (Recommended) The Play Chips are converted to standard raffle tickets in a pre-determined ratio. Tickets are placed in a raffle drum and prizes raffled one at a time. We recommend giving one raffle ticket to ALL guests as a freebie. It keeps them the in the game even if they lose all of their chips.
The Auction: Guests use their Play Chips to place bids on the prizes they wish to win. You should have no more than 5 items when you use the auction method.
The Chinese Raffle: The Play Chips are converted to standard raffle tickets in ratio of 1 ticket per $5,000 in Play Chips. The guests then place raffle tickets in individual boxes for each prize in which they are interested. Once again, we recommend giving one raffle ticket to ALL guests as a freebie.
High Rollers: The guests with the highest winnings are awarded a prize.
Prizes for Casino Night Fundraisers
For Casino Night Fundraisers it is not uncommon to have a casino night in conjunction with a live or silent auction. The idea is to have supporters donate items for the auction, then auction those items as part of the fundraising effort. If you are hosting a casino night fundraiser, it is important to keep in mind the cost and potential [lost] revenue from having prizes awarded from the casino play. Basically you should have low value prizes for the casino and put the high value items in the auction. The purpose of this strategy is to maximize your cash revenue.
For example if you had a supporter donate a $50,000 car you would be much better off auctioning that car off for cash, more than likely tens of thousands of dollars, then giving it away as part of the casino prize pool.
How many Prizes Should be Awarded
Once again, less is more. While is might seem like a great idea to give lots of prizes away at the end of your event, it is generally better to give fewer better prizes than to give lots of smaller prizes. First off keep in mind that it will take a 30 seconds to a minute to award each prize. So if you have 40 prizes you are in for a long prize awarding session and if the prizes are not really that great you will lose the guests’ interest.
Secondly, people want to feel special for winning. Imagine the lottery gave away fifty million $2 prizes versus one $100 million prize.
Prizes For Casino Night
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If you really want to give away lots of little prizes like key-chains, koozies, or other trinkets; I recommend the game event award method. Most casino games have some event that happens every so often. For example a Craps player gets a point, a Roulette player hits a number, a Blackjack player gets a Blackjack. Those somewhat rare events can be used to award small prizes during the party to the lucky player. This is ideal when you want to award lots of prizes and or don’t necessarily want to require the guests to stay to the end of the event. This works well for conventions, trade show and expos where the players come and go from the table and you may never see them again.