Having been in the casino party and planning business for many years I have heard from customers some very sad stories of what occurred at their casino fundraiser and I would like to pass to you the 7 steps you must follow to ensure you have a successful casino fundraiser and hire the BEST casino party company for your event.
Step 1.
The planning committee. This is the most
important step in your haba88 and you must assign a person to each of the specific tasks that
must be accomplished for your event, which include the Law and getting the
appropriate licenses, finding the location and catering for the event, getting
sponsors to help with the costs, getting gifts donated, finding the correct
casino company, and who will be handling the money. It is impossible for one
person to handle all of the above items. The only successful way is to have one
person responsible for each item, leave them alone to perform the task, but
having them report their progress every so often to the person assigned in
charge for the event. You will need plenty of time to accomplish all the tasks
I a good time frame to start is 4-6 months before the event date.
Step 2.
The Law and
obtaining your fundraiser license and township permission. Always remember that
gambling is illegal, and having casino games at your fundraiser is gambling.
This is important because a casino fundraiser is not the same as holding a car
wash to raise funds. Because gambling is illegal there are state authorities in
charge of stopping illegal gambling which means your casino fundraiser will
fall under an exception to the gambling laws. Let's take New Jersey as an
example. The state agency ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control)is responsible to
find and prevent illegal gambling, unfortunately their own handbook does not
say illegal gambling, or exceptions to the gambling laws, it only says
gambling, and there has been an occasion where one of their investigators
attempted to stop a casino fundraiser claiming it was gambling. The situation
was resolved before the event date because of the second point I want you to
remember. Even though your casino fundraiser is gambling and gambling is
illegal, you fall under an exception to the gambling laws by state statute. In
New Jersey the state legislature created a statute to allow casino gambling and
created the Casino Control Commission to oversee the activity, they also
created a statute to allow casino fundraisers and created the legalized Games
of Chance Control Commission to oversee casino fundraisers. The point I want
you take from all this would be to make your casino fundraiser legal, you must
understand the law and get the proper licenses and township permission for the
event. Just because you are a 501(c)3 non profit organization and used to
having a car wash to raise funds doesn't mean you can have a casino fundraiser
simply because it sounds like a good idea. So at this point you should understand
it is a good idea to call your states Office of the Attorney General to find
out the laws in your state to have a casino fundraiser.
Step 3.
The Best casino company. The licensing
requirements needed for you state may also require the casino company to be
licensed. There have been occasions in New Jersey where a non profit
organization called a casino habanero and neither of the parties knew the laws resulting in the event
being stopped and fines. Each state is different and in New Jersey the casino
company and all the dealers must have a casino fundraiser license. So the
important point here is to first learn the requirement on your own by calling
the state authorities, then you start calling the casino companies and ask them
what is required to have a casino fundraiser. A good casino party company will
ask you if you have your license and be able to email you the forms needed to
obtain the license. They should guide you through all aspects to obtaining your
license and getting the township permission. If they do not assist you or
explain the rules then they may not understand them and that could be a
disaster waiting to happen.
Step 4.
Who is really doing your
event? Understand there are casino party companies who advertise locally and
some who do it nationally. In my experience the local companies are the best
for you because the national companies may not know the laws for you state.
Even worse is the national companies will not be doing your event. What they do
is call the local companies, get a quote from them and add hundreds of dollars
to the bill just for answering your phone call, and the local company is who
will be doing your event and they will have given you a quote that is less than
the national company. As you look at each company you will see some that have
photographs of movie stars and people having fun in a casino on the front page
of their website. Forget all that material designed to attract you because it
is not important. When you receive price quotes from the casino party companies
you may get 3 or 4 that are in the same general range and 1 or 2 that are much
higher than the others. Let's give an example and say you received quotes for
$1000, $1100, $1200 and $2000. It doesn't make any sense that 3 quotes were in
the same range and one quote was much higher and that is because the very high
quote is from a national company who will not do your event because they are
going to call the local company who gave you the lower quote in the first
place, then add the extra money to the bill.
Step 5.
The casino tables. There is a general rule to
follow which is you want approximately 70 percent of you guests to be able to
play. You can modify this rule, but I would not go below 50 percent able to
play. The casino company should advise you on this. They should also stay in
constant contact with you in the week leading up to the event to revise the
tables if needed. Let's assume your event was 300 guests, but in the last week
you realize only 200 will show up. A reputable casino company will suggest you
reduce the number of tables. A poor casino company will want you to stay with
the original suggestion because they will make more money. Simply stated, the
BEST casino party company would rather you have the correct number of tables
and not too many or too few, and they should not put their profit above your
fundraising needs. Now let's discuss the casino tables that will be used for
your event. This is my opinion as a licensed dealer, but the best casino companies
have new equipment which does not have folding metal legs and/or use skirting
under the table to hide the metal legs. Ask yourself why a real casino doesn't
use metal folding legs on their tables. A craps or roulette table is very heavy
with up to 14 people all leaning and shifting their weight on the table. Maybe
that's the reason you shouldn't have metal folding legs habanero slot because you do not want
to take the chance the table collapses. I will never deal craps or roulette on
a table that has metal folding legs. The point I want you remember here is that
you should have the casino party company put in writing that they will be the
company doing your event and will not subcontract to another company. You
should also require the casino company to provide photographs of the actual
tables they will use at the event. It is fine if they can show you the tables
on their website, but I would ask myself why a casino company does not have
photographs of the tables on the website. Do not accept the company having a
photo showing the top of the tables with people having fun because that does
not show the legs of the table which I consider the most important part.
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