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 1xbet. This is the most important step in your planning and you must allocate a person to each of the specific tasks that must be accomplished for your event, which include the law and getting the appropriate permit, 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 a single 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 betting is illegal, and having casino games at your fundraiser is betting. This is important because a casino fundraiser is not equivalent to holding a car wash to boost funds. Because betting is illegal there are state authorities in charge of stopping illegal betting which means your casino fundraiser will come under an exclusion to the betting laws. Let’s take New jersey as an example. The state agency ABC (Alcoholic Cocktail Control)is responsible to find and prevent illegal betting, unfortunately their own handbook does not say illegal betting, or exceptions to the betting laws, it only says betting, and there was an occasion where one of their investigators attempted to stop a casino fundraiser claiming it was betting. The situation was resolved before the event date because of the second point I’d like you to remember. Even though your casino fundraiser is betting and betting is illegal, you come under an exclusion to the betting laws by state statute. In New jersey the state legislature created a statute to allow casino betting 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’d like you take from all this would be to make your casino fundraiser legal, you must understand the law and get the proper permit and township permission for the event. Even though you are a 501(c)3 non profit organization and used to having a car wash to boost 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 party company 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 just don’t help 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 a quote that is less than the national company. As you look at each company you will see some that have images of movie stars the ones 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 low quote in the first place, then add any additional 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 counsel you on this. They should also stay in constant contact with you in the week leading up to the big event to up-date 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. An inadequate casino company ought you to keep with the original suggestion because they will earn 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 on the table 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’d like you remember here is that you should have the casino party company put in writing that they will are the company doing your event and will not subcontract to another company. You should also require the casino company to provide images 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 images 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.