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GAMING NIGHTS
Run a MILLIONAIRES' NIGHT
and invite people to dress up and dream a little. Let’s pretend we are rich and glamourous just occasionally. To enhance the feeling, dress up your venue, croupiers, bar attendants and other workers to suit the occasion.
BUT REMEMBER TWO THINGS
THERE ARE REGULATIONS THAT GOVERN GAMBLING
(in Victoria, you cannot gamble with or for money except in The Casino)
YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY FOR YOUR CLUB
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People pay an admission fee ($10, $50) and are given chips with which they can play any of the games. Every time they buy a drink or packet of chips or a chocolate, give them extra chips.
At the end of the night, hold an auction for mystery prizes, boxed in plain boxes. The "millionaires" buy with their chips. Prizes can be valuable, or "booby" prizes. Prizes might have been donated, or can be purchased; however, be sure to keep your prize costs within a range that allows you to
MAKE MONEY
which, after all, is the purpose of the evening. A liquor licence can be obtained for relatively little cost, and drinks and nibbles are further money spinners.
If you expect 100 people, and charge $10 a head, spend $250 on prizes, $50-$100 on hiring equipment and a Liquor Licence and a bit more on decorations and preparations, you are guaranteed $500, before you sell nibbles and drinks. Increasing the door charge increases your profit.
A night such as this requires some planning, but it’s a lot of fun.
