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The Summer BBQ, Business After Hours Photo by mphillips007/iStock – purchased For most, Summer is the long-awaited and much anticipated season of the year. In recent years, barbecues have grown in popularity as an easy and fun way of getting people together. These outdoor gatherings have also spilled over into the professional world as an …

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Finding Sponsors for Your Casino Fundraiser So you have decided to do a casino party fundraiser!  While you will make significant dollars from ticket sales to the overall event and even from the purchase of chips to play the games throughout the evening, the real key to generating income for your non-profit will be through …

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Found A Cheaper Price Elsewhere? Here is what you should know! Budgets for any event are key as well as getting the best price available.  Chances are you will be getting at least three quotes for your upcoming event and the internet makes searching for a vendor even easier than before. BUT NOT ALL QUOTES …

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Party With A Purpose As the holidays wind down and the New Year begins,  it is also a time when the office blues can set in as workers gaze out their windows at the sun with thoughts of vacations and trips they are missing out on from their cloistered cubicles.  Perhaps, it is time to …

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Team Building through playing Poker If you want your team to gain an edge, build their confidence, and develop tough negotiating skills, then get them to the poker table. That’s right, the poker table! The skills learned at the poker table parallel the competencies needed for professional success. Your team will learn such skills as …

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Benefits of Having Your Company Holiday Party in January Have you considered the possibility of having your company holiday party in January While this may sound unusual, more and more businesses are choosing to hold off on their hosting duties until after Christmas and New Years have passed. There are many benefits to be had …

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From the board room to the card room, women executives reign Historically, poker has been labeled as primarily a “man’s game”. Well, things are changing! Just recently, Ema Zajmovic became the first-ever female champion of an open WPT Main Event. Over the past six years, Philly Casino Parties has produced more “all women” poker nights, …

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Annie Duke – Lessons from the card table Annie Duke at Philly Casino Parties Poker Event for Reason Foundation at the Rittenhouse Hotel “World Series of Poker Champion Annie Duke has made millions playing poker. Her trick? She’s found a way to put a number on what she can and cannot know. She tells us how we …

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A different and effective way to hone business skills Philly Casino Parties has been offering poker instructional sessions and tournaments to small to mid-size businesses for over twenty-five years to develop business skill sets for both employers and employees. Easily implemented as a mid-day company break, it requires minimal setup, time or expense but offers significant …

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