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IN PICTURES: CAB’s ‘Casino Night’ brings games without gambling

By Totus Tuus Keely, Senior Photojournalist
March 8, 2024
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Students laugh after two of the eight casino chips are left after the previous hand at dealer Ryan McBride’s table. Spirits were high in the ballroom as students bet or bankrupt the casino chips that lacked a value. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)
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A blackjack dealer explains how to play to first-year students Jorge Aguilar (left), undecided major, and Ely Delgado, a health sciences major, at the start of the Casino Night. The ballroom began with less than 20 students waiting at the doors to enter and grew by 50 students within the next hour. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)
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