Beat the Cheat… The REAL Real Hustle

SDC11721Ever wondered how the professional con men work a casino? There are many con artist that will do anything just to get money from you, whether you are playing card games or casino slots, they have schemes. Harlequin Fun Casino are in touch with, and work very closely with some of the most proficient gambling experts in the country, and for your entertainment pleasure, are on hand to baffle the living daylights out of you and your guests.

There are lots of ways hustlers work to bring down a casino. You’ve seen Ocean’s Eleven, the opportunity to cheat is there, if you know how, You’d  need to understand the workings of the casino intimately, and it goes without saying you’d need to be an expert at the games too.

Our gambling experts are experts in the inner workings of the hustle, and if you’re hving a fun casino night, your guests will love to see the demonstrations these professional card sharps can show them. Forget “find the lady”, these guys are the real deal.

To find out how we can make these guys work their magic at your event, get in touch and we’ll tell you how we’ve worked with them in the past.  lot depends on the size of the venue and the amount of guests. For example, if you’re having a corporate event, these charismatic card sharps offer an exceptional “One Man Stage Show” which will leave your guests and delegates reeling and wanting more.

The possibilities are endless, and completely adaptable to your needs. If you are interested, let us know how we can help you. One thing is for sure, you will never regret bringing along the professionals at your fun casino party.

Fun casino hire in Cranbrook

Last night, Harlequin Fun Casino hosted a Mardi Gras New Year party in Cranbrook, and the night was a fabulous Themed-events-1sucess! We took along one of our full size Roulette tables, a Blackjack table and two very excitable, yet professional croupiers! What is it about Mardi Gras that turns everyone into a party animal?

The night was so much fun, and with 150 guests packed into the house party, it was just like the real thing!

Cranbrook is a great area, and since it’s so close to our office, it was a great venue for us. With all this snow we’ve been having, we’re having to set off a lot earlier to our events to be on the safe side.  If you;re having a party in Cranbrook or the local area and you’re looking for a fun casino to entertain your guests, Harlequin Fun Casino are right on your doorstep, and we offer the very best in customer service and satisfaction. You won’t find a friendlier company anywhere else! Why not give us a call or send us an email with your event details. We’d love to come along and show your guests a great time!

James Bond Party in Maidstone – Casino Royale

James Bond is definitely one of the most common party themes we come across at Harlequin Fun Casino, and tonight, we hosted a casino in Maidstone, where the hostess had gone to huge efforts to dress the venue and make the theme as strong as possible. Her guests were offered Martini’s (shaken) on arrival, by waiters in tuxedos, and the guests arrived dressed as Bond himself or Bond villains. The ladies looked absolutely fabulous dressed as “Bond Girls” and the venue really did look like a page out of an Ian Flemming novel.

The casino tables obviously went a huge way to creating the James Bond atmosphere, and were a hit with all the guests. Thanks to Maddie Gregson for inviting us to the event. We look forward to the Summer Ball in July where we will have another opportunity to entertain your guests!

Mobile Casino Hire London

Earlier today, Harlequin Fun Casino hosted a fun casino party in London, and Roulette was the word of the day. With only 20 guests, the high rollers were easy to spot, and special mention must be made to MR Douglas Redford who managed to rack up an impressive £4,000 having started out with a mere £50. It’s truly amazing what you can achieve when the fear of loss is taken away. Douglas freely admits that he probably would have stopped at £1,000 if he was playing with his own money. It;s really so easy to be frivolous when the money is not an issue.

Well, done to all the guests for a valiant effort, although it has to be said, Mr David King should be watched like a hawk in a real casino, having stolen at least £300 in fun money right under my nose, and then cheating very inconspicuously several times whilst at the table. I need to have eyes in the back of my head when the likes of Mr King are around. Where was my Pit Boss when I needed him!??!

Hire a Fun Casino for your Wedding Reception

Wedding-casino-hire-1With Christmas now behind us for another year, it’s time to begin to focus on the year ahead. If you’re getting married this year and you’re looking for a unique, elegant yet exciting way to bring your guests together and ensure everyone has a great time, why not hire a fun casino? With a fun casino at your wedding reception, you can be sure your day goes with a bang, creating memories that will last you and your guests a lifetime.

The perfect ice-breaker, a wedding casino is a fantastic way to get friends and strangers in a group talking, laughing, joking and interacting with each other.

Harlequin fun casino hire understands just how important it is to make sure your wedding day runs smoothly and without any unnecessary distractions. With that in mind, we will arrive at your wedding reception venue nice and early and set up the tables ready for your guests as and when they arrive. Arrangements can be made directly with your venue to set the tables up the day before  the wedding if necessary, so that all you have to do is relax and enjoy your wedding day without having to worry about the details. We’ll happily fit ourselves around your special day, starting exactly when you want us to start, and clearing away quickly and discreetly when we are done. Again, if clearing away will detract from the atmosphere of your day in any way, arrangements can be made to leave the tables at the venue overnight to be collected the next day.

A wedding casino is such a fun and unique way to personalise your wedding day. Your guests will have a fantastic time, and will remember your big day for years to come.

Wedding casinos are fantastic for so many reasons. Having a wedding casino at your reception helps break the ice and bring together guests who have just met for the first time.

It helps to smooth over any intervals in the day, such as when photographs are being taken, or when the venue is being made ready for the evening entertainment. It’s a great way to ensure that your guests are being entertained at all times.

As you can imagine, Harlequin Fun Casino are booked months in advance, so the summer months are a very busy time for us. Make you sure you don’t miss out, and contact us today to pencil your special day into our diary.

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!!