A night at the Crown

Casino is a place where men come in with high spirits and lots of money stacked in their purses making it a heavy one. That night as I was running around in the casino with my friends, I could hear the pokie machine dispensing lots of coins. Some people are excited when they hear this sound of the coins. Some just remain calm and I often wonder how one can be not excited getting all the money while having fun. I could never find an adrenalin rush at the casino but it always attracted me. Many a times I went alone to this place, put some money and I never remember a single instance where I won some money into my pocket. Excitement hits me when I hear the funny sounds of the machine and the money increasing. It would make me happy but I often forget that I loose more that what I win. It might be the same case with all the people coming into that place. Loosing the smaller amounts dint worry me much. As I was walking pointlessly to find a happy face in the casino, I just stood near the roulette. I was watching the board spinning and the ball rolling, a gentleman took out his purse and pulled out some money from his purse. He put one by one on to the table and I counted them, they were ten in number. Ten, hundred dollar bills makes a thousand dollars. You don’t have to own the money to know that ten hundred dollars make a thousand. Everyone who has been to a school and know how to do some simple maths will know this. But I had to count and calculate twice to make sure that he put a thousand dollars as bet on to the table. Then I felt like watching him play. He bought a heap of coins and started placing them on the board. He almost placed half of the coins that he had in his hand. And there the board started spinning and the ball was set to roll. He was still placing some of the coins on the table and stopped only after the casino guy uttered the words ‘no more bets on this table’ and he waved his hand over the table as he is casting a magic spell on them. I just had a glance at the mans face. He had no change of expressions and was cool as a cucumber. I could feel my pulse racing even though the outcome wouldn’t affect me. Most of the numbers on the board were placed with coins. I felt that he had a good chance of winning as he had his bets placed on more that twenty five numbers on the board. The ball slowly stopped rolling and now was rolling on the numbers. I was watching with my eyes wide open and suddenly the ball landed on the number ‘13’. I searched the board for 13 to find how many bets has he placed on 13. To my horror, he placed nothing on the number thirteen.Probably he dint like the number 13 or he never imagined that 13 could be a winning number. The casino person placed a glass piece on the thirteen and just brushed all the other coins on to the side of the table. This man lost nearly a thousand dollars and I could see him just walking away from the table as nothing has happened. Then I looked at the casino man to see if he has happy. Even he was normal. Why should he be happy? The casino owner is the one who gets all the money while the employee gets his salary in spite of working in a winning or a loosing table. I recovered from the shock and went straight into the pub and ordered for a ‘coke on the rocks’. While I was about to leave the place and go home, I could see the same guy who lost a fortune playing a different game with more money. I dint wait to see the outcome of the game and just left the place wondering how rich that guy might be.