The opportunity to volunteer presented itself at a managers meeting my girlfriend attended with the Buffalo Athletic Club. One of the corporation owners is very active in this charity and was instrumental in setting up this event. Therefore at the meeting, she volunteered both her and I to assist.In actuality the term "volunteer" should be viewed lightly in this case as the extent of our volunteering consisted of two 15 minute sessions handing out raffle tickets to the winners at the black jack station.
Other than that, we spent the evening enjoying the live music, open bar and Taste of Casino buffet. Unfortunately I didn't take part in any of the raffles or auctions. Although I did save money by doing so, which is a good thing. Most of the items auctioned off were pretty pricey, but all of the money went to the charity, so even if they were expensive the money spent would have still gone to a good cause... and would be tax deductible!
The event finally came to a close around 1:00am at which point we headed down to the Casino to test our luck. My girlfriend has never really gambled before, so I took her to the low stakes black jack table to learn the game.
As our stack of chips both grew and shrunk in size, my girlfriend got increasingly bored with the game. She would tell me what she could buy with the money we were placing for the bet on each hand. Therefore when we actually did win a hand, she wasn't impressed. However when we lost a hand, she seemed to find solace in being able to point out how stupid and pointless gambling away money was.
Ultimately after about 1.5 hours at the table, we walked away dead even. Now there are two ways to look at walking away even, I view it as surviving the first round with the Casino, and being able to live to gamble more, possibly at another table or game where I am sure to find my luck and win some money. Contradictingly though, the opposite view, the view that my girlfriend took was that it was a horrendous waste of 1.5 hours, leaving us with nothing to show for our efforts. (Note: Apparently the free drinks received at the table do not count as an acceptable form of retribution.)
Girls just don't understand gambling.
Final Note: Tina Turner?
The following is directly from the Press relea se on the event we attended:
| Black Jack & Blues at the Seneca Niagara Casino Benefits W CHOB | FOR RELEASE: 5/30/2008 |
Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year and BB King Entertainer of the Year Tab Benoit will perform at the all-new Black Jack & Blues at the Seneca Niagara Casino to b
enefit Women & Children’s Hospital on Saturday, June 21 beginning at 7 p.m.
Black Jack & Blues festivities include great prizes for tournament play in several virtual games and activities, and the Learn to Play Black Jack experience is in the cards.
Guests at Black Jack & Blues will also enjoy cocktails and specialty stations featuring the Taste of the Casino Restaurants and a live auction by Cash Cunningham featuring one-of-a-kind trips and special items for your home.
This Women & Children’s Hospital pre-golf tournament party is sponsored by CGF Anesthesiology Associates and the Seneca Gaming Corporation.
Proceeds from last year’s pre-golf tournament party benefited the Pediatric Neuroscience Center of Western New York at Women & Children’s Hospital, which includes the Reg
ional Epilepsy Monitoring Center, National Pediatric MS Center of the Jacob’s Neurological Institute, Department of Pediatric Neurology and the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery.
Tickets for Black Jack & Blues are $100 each and available by
calling the Women & Children’s Hospital Foundation at (716) 881-8230. More information is also available by accessing the Women & Children’s Hospital Foundation web site at http://foundation.wchob.org/blackjackblues/.
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