Important Steps to Follow in Hiring a Casino Party Company For Your Next Casino Fundraiser
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 바카라사이트. This is the most important
step in your planning 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 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 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 코인카지노. 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 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 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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