Nathan organised for a group of us including Pauline, James, Rachel and Wongo to have a Casino night in Leicester Square. We started off with dinner, of course, in Bodean’s where I had the most massive mac and cheese I’ve ever had in my life. It was so massive that I couldn’t actually finish it – to everyone’s surprise. Actually, I think the biggest surprise for everyone was the fact that I didn’t go for ribs!
Going out to the casino for a big group is always interesting. As much as I love going to the Casino to watch other people (and from that aspect I think its quite social with the people that you’re playing with at the table) in a group like ours you’re always going to have people with different risk aversions and hence either not playing at all or playing only a little bit, like at the roulette tables which allows £1 minimum bets, or play a lot, like me at the blackjack table, or play crazy like Wongo (he was literally running around playing a hand or two here, playing a bit of roulette there, stopping at the bar, then going back for more. Kudos to him because I think it seemed to work.) This made it kind of hard to sort of interact with each other.
However, Nathan, Rachel and I did end up sitting down at one particular blackjack table for a bit. Luck wasn’t with me tonight but it was still fun nevertheless to see all the other characters playing. At one stage I had to pull out because of a particularly energetic and flamboyant player who was actually stressing me with his wildly swinging arms! Ha ha. James stuck with the roulette and seemed to be doing alright though I don’t know how. At the end of the day the house always wins in the casino, this everyone knows, so even in blackjack, where you can delude yourself that you have some measure of control, you’re eventually going to walk away the loser but I just don’t understand the appeal of games like roulette which are absolute games of chance. However, that’s not to say it still isn’t entertaining to watch. I could watch the crazy people all day. Poor little gambling addicts.