Their odds looked pretty good when three men placed their chips down for a game of blackjack: each had a hand adding up to no more than 14.
But all three went bust when they were hit with another card. Instead the game served as their inaugural lesson for the number one golden rule on the casino floor. The house always wins.
“We got to keep the lights on somehow, folks,” dealer Andrew Toye told them.
But at least the unlucky trio didn’t actually lose any money. The house was actually a second-floor classroom at the Community College of Rhode Island where six tables originally from Bally’s Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, each with a CCRI insignia, were being used to create the experience of being in a casino.
