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Corporate casino nights
Year-end functions, client hospitality and staff celebrations with a floor plan built around mingling rather than seating.
20+ Offline event entertainment · New Zealand
An evening that feels like a private salon.Not a gaming floor.
Shotovergrand designs and runs casino-themed evenings for companies, private hosts and event agencies across New Zealand. Trained hosts, beautifully built tables, symbolic chips — and no money on the felt at any point.
- Guest capacity
- Up to 155Seated, standing or mixed floor plans
- Evening length
- Up to 6 hoursIncluding set-up and pack-down windows
- Where we work
- NationwideNorth and South Island venues
- On the table
- Symbolic chipsNo cash, no stakes, no payouts
01 — The premise
Theatre, hospitality and craft — borrowed from the casino, with the gambling left out.
The felt, the brass, the measured calm of a good host: that is what guests remember about a well-run table. None of it depends on money changing hands.
Every Shotovergrand event is built around symbolic chips issued equally to guests at the door. Chips have no monetary value, cannot be bought, cannot be topped up and cannot be exchanged for cash, goods or credit of any kind. Guests play for the company at the table and for the small ceremony of the evening — a trophy, a toast, a named winner on the night.
That single decision changes how an evening is planned. We produce it as hospitality: floor plan, lighting, staffing ratios, a running order, and a host at every table whose job is to teach, pace and include — particularly the half of your guest list who have never touched a card table.
What this service is. Shotovergrand provides offline, adults-only casino-themed event entertainment. We do not provide real-money gambling, betting, cash prizes or online casino services, and we are not a gambling operator. All guests must be 20 or over.
02 — Formats
Nine ways to build the evening.
Most clients start from one format and borrow from two others. Pricing is always by tailored proposal, because the cost depends on the size of the event, the venue and the format you choose.
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Private parties
Milestone birthdays, anniversaries and engagements for adult guest lists, in homes, lodges and hired heritage rooms.
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VIP signature evenings
Twelve to thirty guests, one table, one dedicated host, a tasting menu and a tightly written running order.
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Table entertainment
Roulette-style, blackjack-style and poker-themed tables as individual attractions inside a larger programme.
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Mobile table hire
Tables, chips and racks delivered, installed and collected — with or without our hosts on the floor.
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Team building
A structured rotation with mixed teams, coached tables and a debrief — designed for people who do not know each other yet.
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Production & branding
Lighting, styling, photo corners and custom chips, felt borders and table cards carrying your own marks.
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Hosts & croupiers
Trained table hosts and a floor manager for your own equipment, your own venue or an agency-run production.
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Something between the nine
Tell us the room, the guest count and the hour you want people to leave. We will write the format around it.
155Maximum guests per event
6 hrsMaximum event duration
20+Minimum guest age, enforced
0Dollars wagered, ever
04 — The look of it
Low light, warm brass, deep teal felt.
Our build standard is one room, dressed properly — not a function space with props dropped into it.
05 — In their words
What clients say afterwards.
Feedback is published in an anonymised form at our clients' request. Organisations are described by sector and event type rather than named.
We had 140 people, half of whom had never played anything. Twenty minutes in, the room had sorted itself into tables and nobody was standing against a wall. That was the whole point of the night.
I wanted the look without anything resembling gambling, because several guests would have been uncomfortable. The chips-only format made that an easy conversation to have in the invitation.
As an agency we sub-contract a lot of entertainment. The floor plan arrived before we asked for it, the crew were early, and the pack-down was invisible. We rebooked for two more events.
06 — Straight answers
The six questions we are asked first.
No. Shotovergrand is an offline event entertainment service. Guests receive symbolic chips that have no monetary value and cannot be bought, topped up or exchanged for cash, credit or goods. There are no stakes, no betting and no cash prizes, and we do not operate any online casino service.
No. The only outcome of a table is chips, and chips stay on the night. Where a host wants a ceremony at the end of the evening, we help them present a trophy or a gift they have provided themselves. We never handle, award or facilitate money or cash-equivalent rewards.
Twenty. Our events are designed for adult guests and we will not run a table where under-20s are present on the event floor. We support your venue's door and ID procedures and will write the restriction into your invitation wording if that is useful.
Up to 155 guests and up to 6 hours per event. Within that, the number of tables and hosts is set by how many people you expect to be playing at once rather than by the headcount alone — we will model that with you before quoting.
Every event is quoted individually. The price depends on the size of the event, the venue, travel and the format you choose, so we prepare a tailored proposal rather than publishing a rate card. Send us a date and a rough guest count and you will have a written proposal to work from.
Nationwide, from our base in Manapouri. Southland, Otago and Canterbury are routine; the rest of the South Island and the main North Island centres are handled with a travel and freight allowance built into the proposal. See coverage for detail.
07 — Next step
Tell us the date. We will tell you what is possible.
A proposal takes us two working days and costs you nothing. It will include a floor plan sketch, a host count, a running order and a written price for your specific evening.