Photo Casino is a social evening that includes dinner at a local restaurant.

Usually held in October, the event is designed as a fun event to permit members to display their work taken over the previous summer. Subject category is completely open.

To participate, HGCC members may bring 1 or 2 unmounted 8x10 prints (colour or black-and-white). The entry fee for participating photographers is $2; spectators may also participate, again for an entry fee of $2.

Each participant at the casino will receive a number of playing cards. The total number of cards dealt will be dependent on the number of prints entered (5 cards per print). Cards will be dealt to participants equally, though because of numbers some participants may receive one less card than others.

Following dinner, all of the prints will be laid out to accept the placement of cards. The basic idea is for participants to vote for their favorite images with their cards, placing at most one card on any one print, face down. Participants should keep in mind that poker values are used for individual cards. If an image already has five cards, then a different image must be selected. Card placement will proceed in round-robin fashion until all participants have placed their cards. At the end of this process each image will have exactly five cards.

Once all of the cards have been played, two additional cards are drawn from the deck. With these two cards, and the five played on each of the pictures, the best five-card poker hand will be created for each picture. The picture with the best poker hand will be declared the winner, with corresponding second and third place prizes.