On Wednesday, the West Bend Student Senate and Activities Committee sponsored a casino event to celebrate the near end of the spring semester. It was held in the Moraine Park Technical College cafeteria. There was free food, live music, casino games, a large raffle and a door prize. It was definitely a big event. The cafeteria was packed with students!
For lunch I had a pulled-pork sandwich, corn and a soda. There were cheesy hash browns too, but I don’t really like those so I didn’t have any. While I was eating, a band named BOS performed http://www.sonicbids.com/bos2. They sang current hits like a song by Bruno Mars, some classics like Michael Jackson and some of their own music.
There were a bunch of dealer tables in the cafeteria and professional dealers from Casino Events, Inc., were at the
tables. I played roulette. Steve, the dealer, taught me how to play. We played with real chips that we purchased with
fake money they called “funny money.” I wasn’t a big winner, but I really enjoyed watching that ball spin around and land on numbers.
A Student Senate member gave me a raffle ticket just for playing. The “funny money” that people won could be turned in for more raffle tickets. There were some big winners who got to put a lot of tickets into the raffle.
Fortunately for people like me who only had three tickets in the raffle drawing, a person could only win one prize. At the end of the event, they did the raffle drawing. There was a whole table of prizes! There were things like a printer, microwave, digital camera, gas grills, MP3 player, coolers and lawn chairs just to name a few. They also had gift cards for gas, the grocery store, restaurants and department stores. I was lucky enough to win a $25 gift card to Pick ‘n Save!
The door prize was a 32” LED TV. The person who won was in class during the drawing. I’m sure she was happy to know she won the big prize after her class let out.
This event was so much fun. I learned how to play roulette, and I won a raffle prize. I hope they do this again next year. If you were at the event, please share your story in the comment area of this blog.
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