Comments on: Make Small Money Sound Big

Question: Make Small Money Sound Big

my homunculus is drowning — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:09:07 -0800

I need a really great, somewhat poker related prize (or a couple of prizes) that will cost less than $1200. I'm giving it away in early August (somewhat flexible on the date).

Right now the best I can think of is a trip to Vegas for 2 and a $500 gift card. . . but I'd like something even better/cooler/more expensive sounding than that. I'm also considering a trip to Commerce Casino in LA with Disneyland tickets and stuff, so anything is possible. Travel anywhere is definitely an option, local events are an option. . . it just really needs to sound good.

By: magikker

magikker — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:21:48 -0800

You could cover the entrance fee to some big poker tourney.

By: my homunculus is drowning

my homunculus is drowning — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:32:17 -0800

I gave away several tournament buy ins the last few times but all the winners bombed out early in their tournaments which made the prizes ultimately less than spectacular/memorable.

If the tournament was really prestigious that would be something else altogether. . . but the really prestigious tournaments are way more expensive than that, especially if I have to fly them there too.

So far this year I've been giving away WSOP satellite seats, but the prize winners keep busting out of the tournaments ridiculously early and I want to find a prize that's a little more. . .donkey-proof than that.

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:48:50 -0800

What about a nice poker set- the good, clay chips (none of the el cheapo plastic stuff) to go along with the "main" prize. That way, they have a physical winning.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:55:51 -0800

A nice poker table or the equivalent in cash, since not everyone has the space.

By: Project F

Project F — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:24:24 -0800

An in-home poker party, in which they provide friends and you provide a table and professional dealers for the night, and maybe give them the chip set that was played with all night.

By: yeti

yeti — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:45:45 -0800

A humidor and a box of fine cigars.

By: my homunculus is drowning

my homunculus is drowning — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:02:03 -0800

Those are nice ideas. . . I especially like the idea for the chips-- I would customize them myself-- put their face on em with the "Series XX Champ" or whatever. The thing is-- while I think that that is really really cool-- it isn't the sort of prize that stands out on a flyer. My prize needs to actually appeal to all sorts of people interested in poker-- not just the dedicated player-- and it needs to sound enticing enough to get more players interested, and make non-poker players interested in learning. Sorry that wasn't clear.

But yeah. . . I definitely see supplementing the trip and buy-in type prizes with actual tangible objects.

Any more ideas? Thank you!

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:19:04 -0800

Johnny Walker Blue Label
Cards as Weapons by Ricky Jay (very rare)
iPod Touch with video poker?