I have an idea for a minigame which, as far as I know, is new. One of the regular cash game chips is replaced with a "golden ticket"/special chip. It gets randomly assigned to a stack. It must be kept visible. That chip has the same dollar value as any other chip of the same denomination.
At the end of the night the person who has the chip in their stack wins a prize/bounty. It could be anything that the host wants (chip giveaway, dealer button, lottery ticket, cash).
I see this mini game doing a couple things:
1) incentives people to stay until the end of the game
2) provides interesting strategies/adjustments. Will people try to bet huge/bluff/push around the person with the "golden ticket" chip? Will the player with the chip bet it in a pot with the nuts to entice action OR as a bluff?
Let me know what you guys think.