On Sept. 14, the Council for Greek Governance (CGG) threw their annual Casino Night at the Burke Lounge in Spellman hall.

Every sorority and fraternity on campus joined together to throw CGG’s biggest event of the year.

The event was so successful last year that the council was able to get a bigger space for the event this year.

“We won program of the year last year,” says president of CGG and sister of the Gamma Lambda Rho sorority, Julia Carlino. “We wanted a bigger room, and since we won, we were granted it,” she said.

Last year, the program was held in the Hegarty Room inside the Hynes Athletic Center. One of the perks of winning program of the year was getting more game tables, which meant that more people could play games instead of waiting for an open spot.

Since the program was in a bigger room this year, a bigger turn out was expected.

“It’s a great turn out this year. A lot of freshmen came out, and that’s really great to see,” said Carlino.

The CGG consists of every president of each fraternity and sorority on campus, and planning the event with so many people could get crazy quickly.

“It was stressful [planning the event], but we knew it was going to be a big hit,” says Carlino. “It really brings us together as a [Greek] community.”

Some of the games of the night included poker, roulette and Black Jack. 10 members from each fraternity and sorority had to come an hour early and learn how to be dealers of each game. Corrine Valenti, sister of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority, said the games aren’t as easy to deal as they are to play.

“It was hard! It was tough learning the games because they involve a lot of math. But once everyone starts playing, it’s a lot easier to learn the game,” said Valenti.

Sisters and brothers from different houses helped each other out learning and dealing the games, usually substituting in or helping when some of the rules were either forgotten or misconstrued. The players themselves even helped out with the dealing.

Gamblers adorned fedoras and visors, just like in a real casino. The music was loud, the food was delicious and cheers of gamblers who had just won big could be heard from every table.

“It’s like a legitimate casino,” says Jana Pagliocca, president of the Gamma Lambda Rho sorority.

Some of the prizes included various DVDs, a black Wii gaming console and the biggest prizes of the night, two 24-inch flat screen TVs. The gamblers could trade in their winning chips for raffle tickets, which in turn could be used to win the prizes.

The winners of the flat screen TVs were Albina Gjoni and Alexander Fasano. The winner of the Wii gaming console was Javon Fowler.

The winners of the DVDs were Steven Burth, Nick Cortright, Eric Woodring, Matt Taguer, Krista Surlis, Jason Seda, Gabriella Popoli, Kelly Moriarty, John Bertino, Mick Potthast and Hannah Wyllie.