Category Archives: Prize Insurance

Prize insurance coverage gives marketers the ability to offer spectacular, attention-grabbing prizes that can be used to amplify engagement, create foot-traffic, motivate consumer behavior, generate sales, boost donations and increase publicity – all for just a fraction of the actual cost of the prize.

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Who Can Make A $10,000 Shot From Half-Court? This Guy!


Grad Student Scores $10,000, paid by Odds On Promotions, after making half-court basketball shot!

Blacksburg, VA – Grant Howerton scored $10,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions, after he made a half-court basketball shot in a contest sponsored by University Development, Inc. during half-time at a Virginia Tech-Boston College basketball game.

Howerton, a full-time Virginia Tech grad student who has had student season basketball tickets for the past six years, got the chance to win the big bucks after he netted $50 in a qualifying free throw contest.   While you can read more about this giant prize basketball contest, why not check out Howerton’s amazing $10,000 basketball shot for yourself.

Then pick up the phone and give Odds On Promotions a call for a winning sports promotion that will put your product at center court this Spring.

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Millions In Play At Gulfstream …

Creative Racino Cross Promotion …

This January during the eighth annual running of the Sunshine Millions™ – one of thoroughbred racing’s richest and most exciting events – Gulfstream Park gave race fans an added incentive to play in their casino with a little help from Odds On Promotions.

Every hour from Noon to 9pm, the casino randomly selected a lucky casino player and gave them the chance to win $1,000,000  using Odds On Promotions’ Lucky Envelopes games.  If a player could select a winning combination of three envelopes that added up to $1,000,000 they’d take home the prize and Odds On would pick up the tab!

According to Odds On Promotions’ Casino Rep Bob Milinkovic, “Customized gameboard promotions are an ideal way for racinos to increase foot-traffic and maximize slot play on major race days.  One of my favorites, Place, Show, Win The Dough … is perfect for tracks because of the racing theme; however, this one also works as a great floor promotion for casinos – as well as for bars – during the Triple Crown –  the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes – and of course, the Breeders Cup.”

Season…of…Fortune!

This Fall, club members at the Grand Sierra could play in a daily FREE slot tournament featuring a  $777  Free Play prize pool, then, every Saturday the casino held a  weekly drawing for all the daily slot participants where 77 winners each received $100 in free play. Then, on December 19 the casino held a Grand Finale Qualifier Tournament where 27 Lucky Players got the chance to win $777,000 in a simultaneous “Lucky Envelope” contest that took place on the casino floor on December 20.   While no one took home the $777,000 grand prize, the casino awarded multiple cash consolation prizes to all of the participants.

Sales Rep Tara McClure: By offering players a daily free chance to win, followed by a weekly chance, leading up to a “Grand Finale” giveaway, the casino effectively drove traffic and kept players engaged at every turn.  I really liked that they held the final giveaway on the casino floor, where new players were sure to be asking … “How can I get in on the winning?”

Touchdown for Dough …

Burlington, Iowa – On January 30 at Catfish Bend Casino, 5 lucky VIP players will get a chance to win up to $250,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions, playing Plays that Pay!

Each lucky contestant will pick five envelopes from the game board. Inside each envelope is a number representing a series of yards. If the total “yards” add up to 100, the lucky player will win $250,000 in cash, paid for by Odds On Promotions! As a bonus, the casino will reward every contest with free play based on every yard they “score”.

Casino & Media Promotion Specialist Chris Gardiner notes: “Plays that Pay is the ideal promotion for any football party be it Monday Night Football, a college bowl game or Super Sunday. And, with Odds On Promotions’ new magnetic boards, you just buy the board once and simply change out the graphics depending on what ‘event’ you’re marketing around … from bowl games to slot tournaments.”

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Attract A Crowd …

UPDATE: Sold Out! Pre-order for April
UPDATE 2: Zoom Ball Bonanza in January
Reno, Nev. – Looking to attract a crowd? Zoom Ball will help you do exactly that. This fast-paced promotion gets customers lining up for the chance to win fabulous prizes with the touch of a button!

Patrons simply press the button activating the ball blower and root for the orange balls to fill the Zoom Zone. If someone draws five or six balls, they walk away a winner–paid for by Odds On!

Casinos all over the country are finding big success with Zoom Ball … from $1,000,000 Action Ball at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nevada to the $100,000 Zoom Ball promotion held this past December at Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa.

But casino’s aren’t the only place this promotion works. Zoom Ball is also quite effective at driving booth traffic at tradeshows and expos.  Interested in learning more? Email us today!

Update: Zoom Ball promotions have been running in Fond du Luth, Minnesota and Council Bluffs, Iowa.