Week 10 Story: The Casino

A long hike up and over the Himalaya's was the only thing Chase expected over the next month. He and two of his other friends were trying to get to the other side of the mountain range to lead back the tribe they had recently acquired. Although Chase had no horse's or weapons for these men, he thought they were valuable enough to bring back to their village, Bakbeph, and deal with the missing pieces later.

It was a brutal winter and the men began to struggle on their trip. Chase and his two closest advisors, Carter and Luke, started to have death on their minds. They continued the long trek and began to see the summit of the mountain. On that summit, they saw very bright flashing lights. When they came closer to the lights, they could see the word 'Casino' enlightened in the snowfall. Without question, Chase lead his men into the casino.

He took a seat at one of the blackjack tables, attempting to win some money for him and his two advisors. All of the dealers in the casino were Raksasha's and were very intimidating. The Raksasha's main job was to kill anybody who tries to leave the casino without paying their debts. However, they did not know Chase's intelligent skill at blackjack.

He began to play hand after hand, without winning or losing much money. Chase then started to speculate his trip and realized that without more gold, they had no chance of survival. Chase went all in. He pushed all of his gold onto the table for one hand of blackjack. The dealer then dealt, and Chase had two 9's.

"Split 'em" Chase said confidently.

"You are out of money, I am afraid I cannot do that" replied the Raksasha.

"My advisors and I will give you our horses and our services for life if we lose. Split the cards" Chase demanded.

The Raksasha split the cards. He was showing a 10, so Chase's chances of winning were small. Chase then got dealt a 10 and another 10, giving him 19 on each hand.

Now it was time for the Raksasha to show his hand. He was already showing 10 and he flipped his other card to show his hand. It was an 8, totaling 18.

Chase had won everything. He got double his gold, three horses and also three additional men. Chase and his advisors then left the casino and continued their trip to lead their tribe back to their village.

The End.

Author's Note:
This story thought started when I read about the dice game in week 7. I love going to the casino, so I thought it would be a lot of fun to write about it, and it was. In the reading, Bhima had to sacrifice a horse, and that is where I incorporated the stories. Bhima, who I renamed Chase, went into the casino and gambled all of his gold, horses, and men. In the reading Bhima had to cut off the head of a horse and sacrifice him. Although he did not do that in mine, he still did put himself and everything he had at sacrifice on blackjack.

Bibliography: Mahabharata by R.K. Narayan (Link)

Blackjack: (WikiCommons)