<p>How strict are RAs with gambling on campus? If I was to host a poker game in my dorm, would the RAs care as long as there was no money on the table? Also, has Cornell hosted any campus-wide poker tournaments in the past?</p>
<p>The RA's don't care at all about gambling, at least not mine. I've played poker in the lounges on my floor a few times and no one cared. I don't think my situation is unique either.</p>
<p>yea i bet they sometimes even wanna join in hah</p>
<p>what percent of engineers do you think gamble psquared?</p>
<p>When I said a few times, i meant a few, only 3 times, so I probably wouldn't be a good source to say how many engineers gamble. It's probably whatever the national average is, and it depends if you mean how many gamble or how many gamble reguraly, b/c probably 95% of people gamble on something at least once a year, but if you mean like every friday, I have no clue. I'm sure if you wanted to do that you would be able to easily find people.</p>
<p>would the RAs care as long as there was no money on the table?</p>
<p>I doubt they would care even if there was money on the table... I gamble with my hs teachers all the time.</p>
<p>The guys in my hall play for money with our RA. Other RAs might not be quite as cool with it, but as long as you don't have a wad of $20s on the table you will surely be OK.</p>
<p>As you've been told before, the point of an RA is to keep you safe, healthy, and happy, not to get you in trouble. A few RAs are overzealous nutcases who try and make sure everyone follows the rules to a T, but most realize the socially healthiest hall is one where people are safe and happy. This type of RA, the most common type, will write you up for, say, smoking inside or literally 2 feet from the entrance of the building (health/fire hazards for asthmatics and people lacking flame-retardant skin), yelling/blasting music at 4AM (a significant disturbance to those trying to sleep), etc. Oftentimes, the RAs will be lenient and remind you on your first offense to, in the two examples i gave, move farther from the building, or quiet down, respectively. </p>
<p>the quiet down thing happened to me with my music with the RHD (res hall director, a paid adult position, and bigger and badder than an RA) and she told me just to "turn the music down, thanks!"</p>
<p>As far as I know it is not illegal to have private poker games for money. I'm pretty sure there is no university or local laws against that. It's only illegal if you run a casino and take profits. There are poker games everywhere, my freshman dorm floor had one almost every night. First semester I was able to live off poker winnings. I don't play as much anymore though.</p>
<p>Gambling is HUGE at Cornell. The native american students run a massive multi-tribe casino out of the Akwe:kon program house, which is replete with poker, blackjack, and roulette tables and numerous slot machines. This is one of the major draws on campus during the weekends, with the building usually packed to its 400-person capacity. The university doesn't mind, it takes a cut of the profits.</p>
<p>Haha perro, I think people will actually beleive that.</p>
<p>perro, that isthe funniest thing I've heard all day, hahaha</p>
<p>Yeah, as long as you aren't running a casino or anything like that it doesn't matter. Honestly, unless you have a bad RA or are tremendously stupid (i.e. having huge, loud parties in your dorm room, etc) you won't get in any trouble from your RA.</p>