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Number of Player Positions:

First figure the number of students that you plan on attending and multiply by 50%.  For corporate events, we typically multiply by 70% as the casino is often the main attraction.  For school purposes we recommend 50% because you most-likely will want other entertainment on-hand such as inflatable games, live acts or other interactive activities such as a money booth or photographer.  The answer is your desired number of player positions.  So if you are expecting 100 students, then a casino to serve 50 players is ideal.  This saves on budget even more!

Dealers:

For High Schools:  Begin recruiting teachers or parents for dealers.  For Colleges:  Begin recruiting sponsors, teachers or students for dealers.

Regardless of who you have a dealers, we offer free dealer training with any game rental.

If you are not renting any games from us and only are in need of guidance, please contact us at admin@amerifun.us and let us know which games that you need dealer instructions for and we will provide you with detailed rules for your selected games.  Also please check out this page for a handy dealer checklist with some basic rules for a few popular casino games.

Decorations:

Order some fun decorations, like some of those red and white-stripped Dealer Vests (use the link below to visit our party store for novelty dealer vests- type in "vests".)  Also type in "casino" for some neat casino decorations.

Professional Balloon Art available to compliment your venue:

• Arches (in school colors or red/black with splash of green and/or white

• Columns (with or without lighting) in same colors topped with giant card or die/dice

• Entryways (with or without lighting) with or without topper

Decoration Resources:

To offer you one convenient resource, we have taken the time to research some fabulous suppliers. 

Fundraisers:

A casino party is a fabulous school fundraising idea.

Some tips for your school fundraisers:  Begin soliciting donations or prize donations from parents, sponsors and contributors.  Also recruit volunteers for help with decorations and dealers.

Consider advertising your casino event.  You can legally request suggested donations to enter (but cannot require).

For more information on planning a school fundraisers please see our standard Fundraiser Pages.

Fun Money:

You will want to print some Fun Money.  Sign on to your favorite image software and create a quick, fun design.  You can use teacher's or student's faces on the bills or other characters.

You can fit four to six bills on a page.  We recommend black and white copies on colored paper to save on cost.  

You want them to all feels like 'high-rollers'!  We recommend printing denominations of up to $100,000.. you will need them!!

Determine how much fun money that each guest will start with, let's say $10,000.  If you had 100 guests, you would need 1000 bills to start, or about 20 pages.  The evening-end redemption method that you use will determine how much more money that you will need.

There are many redemption methods that you could use but we use a Raffle, Auction, Gift Shop or Giveaway as prize methods.

If you are having an 'auction' or a 'gift shop' then you will need lots more money, if you are having a 'raffle' or a 'giveaway' then you will not need more money.

It is a good idea to have as much fun money on hand as 10X the start amount per person for an auction or a gift shop, in varying denominations.  For example, if you have 100 people that start with $10,000 each ($1,000,000) then you should have about $10,000,000 in fun money.

Remember it is illegal to use any part of the design from US Currency unless the design is smaller or larger.  Click here for more info.

Prizes:

Decide on one prize method only, don't confuse guests with two many different prize methods.  A good idea for additional prize methods is a series of prizes followed by a single grand prize.

We use a Raffle, an Auction, a Gift Shop and a Giveaway and provide our dealers with the prize tools for evening-end redemption right at the table.  This is a good practice to keep the cashier lines to a minimum.

Click here for our prize methods.

Chips:

If you need chips only for your own tables, we offer premium gaming cheque (chips) rentals to schools for $37.50 per 1000 (delivery included).

If you rent at least one game from us (chips included with our game rentals), the cost is or $25 per 1000 chips for your own games.

If you wish to purchase your own chips there are many available sources.  Plan on needing 300-500 chips for each blackjack table and the like.  A minimum of 500 chips will be needed for the craps and roulette (or as many as 1000 or more).  Look for three to five different colors.  If you are following our example from above and are planning on starting each player with $10,000, then you will want to designate the colors as $25, 100, $500, $1000 & $5000 (don't bother with low denomination chips).

For a great really low cost idea, try your local Dollar Tree Store for some great economical chips, they have them for $1 for 80 - this is the lowest priced chip we've seen (with maybe the exception of those red/white/blue plastic interlocking ones that you remember from your childhood around the kitchen table!).

We have some great suppliers.  Ask about good quality economy chips for sale for as low as 7cents each!