Every once in a while i will have a tournament for $55.00 or more buy in and each player gets $5,500 of poker chips $50.00 for the pot and 5.00 for me. you know for food,drinks ect.......
but what i also do is sell 50/50 tickets------------ 1 for $5.00 or 3 for $10.00 and give tournament chips away for the winners.
Example:
1st place 5,000 additional chips
2nd place 3,000 additional chips
3rd place 1,500 additional chips
and so on depending how many players i get.
i usually have around 30 + players when i have bigger tournaments and at least 15 - 20 players buy the 50/50 raffel.............. it just puts a few extra bucks in your pocket
wayne