Poker Run, planning info Options

[seanery]

Scott,
Our Poker Run went pretty well. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and no one was arrested! ask "Site (Mike Clark)" about that one.
Our format was somewhat determined by the Columbus Architectural Tour. I used their map that has 70+ locations marked and then wrote clues to point you to the right location. We had 10 stops including the hotel and the Visitor's Center - where everyone received a map and their 1st card. We staggered the start by 2 minutes per car. Not every stop had a person there, 6 did, including the last stop which was the park where lunch was. I made 3 different versions of directions (so people wouldn't just follow each other), but actually told them that each map was different, I know I'm sly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) I think only 2 people found all the locations correctly, but all ended up at the Lunch location in a reasonable time frame. We had some good hands, 1 group had 2 pair and 2 groups had 3 of a kind, 3s and the other had jacks. I purchased 8 different decks of cards, the differences were somewhat subtle to totally different. I would lean toward totally different decks next time. This eliminates the possibility of someone showing up with a couple decks of Bicylcle™ cards and making their own hand.

Things that will help you make the WCC Poker Run a success, I'm sure there are more than just this:

• Get a GOOD map
• Make the clues challenging, but not impossible (all answers for my clues were on the map)
• Allow plenty of time (We could have almost doubled our estimated time)
• Make sure all of your Check-points have Cell Phones and the other volunteers #s
• Give EVERYONE YOUR cell #
• Come up with a tie breaker
• Test the full route
• Give different sets of clues (but use the same clues)

I'm sure there is more. Ask away if you have any ?s

[VegasRacer]

I checked out a couple of places today and here are the options on custom poker chips. I told them we would need about 1000. These prices are for quantities of 500 and up. We would not get the next price break unless we ordered 10K.

Cheap Plastic - available only with 3 initials or one of their stock logos - 40 cents each.

Clay / Resin composite - Not bad quality. Chips would be 45 cents each.
Available with gold foil hot stamped custom art.

Pro Casino Weight - Top quality clay chips. 79 cents each.
Available with full color custom art.

For both of the custom art options there is a $150 set up charge. We could have the same thing on both sides and only pay one custom art charge. If we wanted 914 Club / WCC on one side and the sponsors logo on the reverse the charge would be $300.

The detail on the gold foil stamped chips is rather limited.
The printing quality is excellent on the better chips.
Both are available in more color combination than you can imagine.
Getting a sponsor to pay for these seems like a natural.
Is 1000 a good quantity? Do we need more? Less?

Bottom Line

1000 pieces of shit that would get thrown away would cost $400.
They would only do 3 letters not numbers (914 is not possible).

1000 OK quality composite chips with 1 color art would be $600 if we wanted the same thing on both sides or $750 if we had different art on each side.

1000 top quality professional chips with full color detailed art would be $940 if we had the same design on both sides or $1090 if we had the sponsors logo on one side and our 914 art on the other.