Gaming tables, croupiers and chips in your own hall or canteen. Guests join in when they like and walk away again when they like.
At one of our casino nights no money goes onto the table. Every guest starts with the same stack of chips and those chips are worth nothing outside the evening. So there is no stake and no payout, which puts it outside everything to do with gambling.
For the atmosphere, that works better than you'd think. People who have nothing to lose play more freely, and at a blackjack table you then find colleagues who would otherwise have stood at the bar. The tension comes from the league table at the end, not from the stake.
The easiest way in. The rules can be explained in half a minute and seven people can play at the same time, so almost everyone starts here.
The biggest audience, because ten people can stand around a table and watch without placing a bet themselves. Works well as the centrepiece of the room.
For the guests who want to sit at one table for longer. We keep to a simple variant, so no prior knowledge is needed to take part.
At the end we turn the chips into a league table. That gives the evening a proper finish instead of letting it fade out gradually.
A casino night doesn't ask guests for a fixed start or end time. That makes it a good fit for moments when a programme with a set start gets in the way: a reception, an anniversary, a year-end party or the second part of a staff party.
What it solves is the silence that sets in around nine o'clock, when the food is gone and conversations run dry. The tables give people a reason to go and stand somewhere else, and the croupiers make sure there is always something to follow.
A compact set-up with two tables starts at €195. After the first conversation you'll get a specific price.
For a casino night we need floor space and power, nothing more. Count on about four by three metres per table, including room to stand around it. We bring the tables, the cloth, the chips and the croupiers.
Setting up takes us about an hour and we do it before the guests arrive. That time doesn't count towards the length of the evening. Afterwards we take it down again in half an hour.
We'd like to know in advance how many guests there will be and when the tables need to open. If you want to hand out prizes at the end, mention that, because then we build the league table up towards it.
At our casino night nobody plays for money. Every guest receives an equal stack of chips at the start, and those chips are worth nothing outside the evening itself. So no money goes in and no money comes out, which legally makes it a game rather than gambling.
The standard tables are blackjack, roulette and poker. Which combination we bring depends on the space and the group size, because every table needs a croupier and some floor around it. With a smaller group two tables work better than four, because otherwise it feels too empty.
A casino night works from about twenty people and goes up to well over a hundred. Group size mainly determines the number of tables and croupiers, not the format. Guests play in changing line-ups, so not everyone has to sit at a table at once.
Nobody has to stay at the table all evening. A casino night is set up as a continuous programme where guests join a table, play for a while and walk back to the bar. That makes it suitable as an activity for a reception or drinks, where people walk around anyway.
Interested in a casino night? Just fill in the short form and we'll send a price estimate within one working day.
Tell us the date, the number of guests and the space available, and we'll send a proposal.