{"id":6541,"date":"2024-02-19T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T03:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:18:20","slug":"uchicago-gambling-club-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/uchicago-gambling-club-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"UChicago Gambling Club Wins Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 3 years of continuous efforts and persistence,the UChicago Gambling Club finally managed their first big win. Josh Gambler, a third year student, has achieved the club\u2019s first win in blackjack, with profits exceeding $10,000 from a $50 bet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWords cannot describe my excitement for this win!\u201d Mr. Gambler tweeted after the win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the win, the club has still not achieved its goals, however.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s well known that 99% of gamblers quit right before they win big. $10,000 is quite big, but $10,000,000 is even bigger\u201d, UChicago Gambling Club president, Adam Rouletteman, stated after the victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the recent jackpot has motivated the club to expand its operations. More specifically, the club will now participate in more opportunities to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lose their homes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> win big, including horse racing, betting on the Malaysian Soccer League 2nd Division, and that one virtual poker game on New Super Mario Bros.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, UChicago President Paul Alivisatos has announced that the club will receive significant investment following their blackjack win. While the president\u2019s intentions have not been made clear, it is presumed that the university will finance Bartlett repairs with a portion of the gambling club profits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s well known that 99% of gamblers quit right before they win big. $10,000 is quite big, but $10,000,000 is even bigger\u201d, UChicago Gambling Club president, Adam Rouletteman, stated after the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}