Fun Casino in Copthorne

It’s Saturday night and once again, Harlequin had the pleasure of hosting a New Year’s  fun casino party in Copthorne, West Sussex.

Just like in any real casino in Las Vegas, Harlequin fun casino hire has casino tables with genuine Las Vegas playing cards and chips, expert croupiers with intrinsic knowledge of the games, and all the thrill and excitement of taking a gamble. The only difference is that a fun casino is played for fun money and no real money changes hands. At the beginning of the night, all guests are given the same amount of fun money. This money is then exchanged for  casino chips, which can be played on any of the fun casino tables or at the lottery sambad, A lottery is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. The prize can be a fixed amount of cash or goods. In this format, there is risk to the organizer if insufficient tickets are sold. At the end of the night, the player who has managed to accrue the most amount of fun money either in cash or chips, wins! The winner is the awarded with a prize.

It’s that simple, and a huge amount of fun, without any of the worry involved when betting real money.

Harlequin Fun Casino are available for hire to entertain your friends and guests at any event. We can even help to theme the event for you. Just get in touch and we’ll help you plan!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

NYE Fireworks

Happy New Year to all our friends, colleagues and clients! We wish you all the best for 2010 and thank you once again for your continued support and business throughout the last year.

For those of you visiting the site from abroad, the image on the left was taken at midnight in London. The fireworks display was simply spectacular, and if you haven’t seen it, take a look at this link to see it for yourself. (PS. Wait for Big Ben to stop chiming to see the incredible display.)

I don’t think I have seen anything more impressive! It was breathtaking. I wish you could have been here.

Happy New Year everyone!! Let’s make this one our best yet!

James Bond New Year's Eve Party in Crawley

iStock_000007574394XSmall (1)Last night, Harlequin Fun Casino hosted a James Bond theme party in Crawley, West Sussex. It’s always nice to attend an event where most of the men are wearing Tuxedos, and even nicer when the guests are so lovely! It was a fantastic night, it was just like a scene from Casino Royale. Roulette really was the game of the night, with most people flocking to the roulette table and placing rather adventurous bets. (It’s amazing how frivolous people can be with their money when they have nothing to lose! It must be what it’s like to be rich! I have always said you have to play big to win big.)

It was a fabulous night, and a brilliant way to bring in the New Year.

James Bond New Year’s Eve Party in Crawley

iStock_000007574394XSmall (1)Last night, Harlequin Fun Casino hosted a James Bond theme party in Crawley, West Sussex. It’s always nice to attend an event where most of the men are wearing Tuxedos, and even nicer when the guests are so lovely! It was a fantastic night, it was just like a scene from Casino Royale. Roulette really was the game of the night, with most people flocking to the roulette table and placing rather adventurous bets. (It’s amazing how frivolous people can be with their money when they have nothing to lose! It must be what it’s like to be rich! I have always said you have to play big to win big.)

It was a fabulous night, and a brilliant way to bring in the New Year.

Play Blackjack for Fun…

Privaty-house-party-holdemBefore I started Harlequin fun casino, I had never played Balckjack in my life. I was a dab hand at Roulette (having been lucky enough to have played many times on the tables in Las Vegas) but when it came to cards, I was a bit too scared to give it a go. I didn’t really understand Blackjack, and was a bit clueless as to the rules. I knew that was the fastest way to lose money, so I kept well away. But as soon as I got the Blackjack tables for Harlequin, I started to give it a go myself. Had I known just how easy it was to learn the rules of the game of Blackjack, I would have been far more inclined to play this game rather than Roulette for real money!

In a game of Roulette, you place your chips on the table before the ball lands. When the ball lands, the dealer will pay out if you were right. If not, you lose the lot. It’s really a game of chance from start to finish. In Blackjack, however, even though you have to place your bets before the cards are dealt, the option is there to stick with what you have been dealt, or to hit another card to try and up your chances of winning that hand. Granted, you might bust if you hit a new card, but you can, to some extent, calculate the risk of taking a new card. For example, if you are dealt a 2 and a 5, you may as well hit, because you’re not going to go higher than 17. (and the dealer has to stand on 17 as we all know) So even though the hand you were dealt was weak, you still get the chance to make things better.

This is just one of the rules that makes Blackjack a more favourable game when it comes to winning money.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I know there is no sure-fire way of winning Blackjack, (well, no sure fire way that is legal or doesn’t involve cheating anyway!) but I do think that you are more in control of your money when you are playing Blackjack than you are playing Roulette.

I must say though, it’s very easy to win big on the fun casino blackjack table. When you’re only playing for plastic chips and not real hard cash, it’s more likely that you’ll play big. There are two ways to rinse the Blackjack table. Option A, you keep placing huge bets, hoping to win so that you then have a huge stash to keep playing with and build gradually. Or option B, you play small with every bet, and hope you build your chip pile. Slow and steady so to speak. I have tried playing both ways, and I have to say, the only way I have ever won big bucks is with option A.

iStock_000001793372XSmall (1)Now here lies the rub… I know this, and I have played Blackjack at home for fun enough tomes to know my own strategies and how they work for me, so why is it that now, when I go into a casino in Las Vegas now, I cannot bring myself to play big?!? The reason is, because it’s always harder to place big bets when you have your own hard earned cash to lose! I am too scared to play strategy A, so I end up playing strategy B, but because I continue to lose using strategy A, I keep putting down more money, hoping my luck will change. At the end of the night, I look at what I have spent, and I cannot help thinking, what if I had put half of my stash down on one had and won it? I guess I’ll never ever know!

So I utter this warning to all our clients who have won big on the casino tables at a party, wedding reception or corporate function. Just remember, always play strategy A in a real casino if you can afford it. In my opinion, it’s the only way to really win big. In the game of blackjack, fortune really does favour the brave! Well… sometimes!!

Hire a Fun Casino in the South of England

south-east-mapHarlequin Fun casino offer professional size Roulette, Poker and Blackjack tables for hire for any occasion. We cover most parts of the country, but we are based in the South. The areas we are local to are:

Amberley Arundel Ashford Ashurst Wood Aylesford Banstead Battle Bexhill Billingshurst Black Corner Bough Beech Brighton Charlwood Chatham Chertsey Christ’s Hospital Chuck Hatch Cobham Coldharbour Copthorne Cranbrook Crawley Crowborough Cuckfield Darenth Deal Domewood Dorking Dover East Grinstead Eastbourne Edenbridge Epsom Esher Faversham Felbridge Felcourt Five Oaks Folkestone Ford Forest Green Forest Row Gilingham Godstone Gravesend Guildford Hammerwood Hartfield Hassocks Hastings Haywards Heath Heathfield Holmwood Horley Horsham Hove Leatherhead Lewes Lindfield Lingfield Maidstone New Romney Newdigate Norwood Hill Nutley Ockley Oxted Parkgate Peacehaven Poundgate Pyecombe Robertsbridge Rochester Royal Tunbridge Wells Rye Sandwich Seaford Shipley Bridge Sittingbourne Swanley Tenterden Three Bridges Tonbridge Uckfield Wadhurst Warlingham West Green Westerham Weybridge Woking

If you would like us to entertain guests at your party, please do get in touch, and we’re sure we’ll be able to help you!

Boxing Day Private House Party Casino

Well, it’s Boxing Day already. Where did this week go? This afternoon, Harlequin Fun Casino entertained an intimate group of 25 people with our full size Roulette table and huge, full size Blackjack table. It was a really great party, and everyone had a fabulous time! The host, Alan was quite a natural on the Blackjack table. Anyone would think he had played before (Hmm. We won’t mention it to your better half, Alan!)

Small parties are always a pleasure to work for. It’s lovely to get to know everyone at the party, and there’s no pressure to move off the tables to make room for other guests.

If you’re having a private house party and you’re looking for a way to entertain your guests for a few hours, a mobile casino could be just the thing you need.

Give us a call or send us an email and we can help you transform your living room into a Las Vegas Casino for the evening! Chances are, your guests will not have seen these authentic size tables before, and they are sure to be suitably impressed.

Merry Christmas to all our Friends and Clients!

merry-christmas

Just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas from all at Harlequin Fun Casino! We hope you enjoy a well earned break!

It’s been one heck of a year, and we’re already looking forward to 2010. Christmas is the busiest time of year for us at Harlequin, but also, the most fun time of year!

We’ll be available online at all times over the festive period, and it’s business as usual as of January 2nd.

We hope you have a lovely Christmas, and we send you our thanks for your business throughout the last year.

'Twas the night before Christmas…

… when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The Night Before Christmas

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”

(Clement Clarke Moore, 1823)

‘Twas the night before Christmas…

… when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The Night Before Christmas

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”

(Clement Clarke Moore, 1823)