Casino night allows safe risks and rewards
By: Kelly Kendall
Issue date: 11/20/08 Section: Lifestyle
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's the first bet of the night for Paul Hibbeler, a junior English
major, and Brian Pagano, a senior accounting major. They had just gotten their chips and were headed to the roulette table. After short consideration,
they went all in on red-
they won.
On Nov. 13, Webster University
and Campus Activities hosted Nite in Vegas in the University
Center. With the Havana Nights theme, students came to the University Center dressed in cocktail dresses, evening coats and Stetson hats.
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one of the first bets of the night, Hibbeler and Pagano doubled the $500 in chips they were given not even five minutes
ago.
"I want to ride this high for a while," Hibbeler said. "But I don't want to through it down on nothing on our next bet."
Despite this, after another short deliberation, Pagano gave his half of the chips to Hibbeler, who put a third of their chips down on nine, a third on 21 and a third on odd. This time
they lost.
"I thought he was going to do something smart," Pagano said.
The night turned into a trick of getting more chips out of unexpecting
bystanders, asking friends to get them more of that fake money. As the night went on, the duo played nine different hands at the Roulette table, only winning the first hand and one after that. By 10:30 p.m., only an hour after the night started, Hibbeler and Pagano were unable
to weasel more chips from other friends and gave up hope.
"This was at least safer than losing all of my money on the boat (as a casino),"
Pagano said. "We made it up to four thousand and then more than doubled it to 10 thousand. But we lost it, so we're going home."
As the two left, they passed by Johnetta Cunningham, a junior political science major.
She was standing at a iron gate, where students could get a Polaroid picture taken as either
a husband or bride. Cunningham,
who was getting her picture taken with another girl, said it seemed odd.
"It felt a little unholy," she said. "But it's good to share alimony."
Prizes were awarded to students
who stayed the whole night. With a few remaining
chips, students could win DVDs and those with thousands
of dollars in chips had the chance to win iPod accessories,
blankets, romantic baskets
and chairs.
"I'm really happy with the turnout," said Brooke Benbenek,
a sophomore sustainability
major. "With such a big event, you can't do too much in advance, so a lot get left on today, but I think it's been
worth it."
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