Campus officials fret that students will drain their bank accounts playing online poker, but they probably don’t spend too much time worrying about college employees doing the same. Perhaps they should.
A supervisor in North Carolina State University’s dining program has landed himself in hot water by playing several online poker tournaments on campus computers, reports The News & Observer. In doing so, the employee may have broken two rules—a campus regulation that prohibits employees from using public computers for personal gain, and a state law that bans betting on games of chance.
State auditors did not disclose the name of the card-playing supervisor, but they suggested that he was nabbed by a stoolie: The poker games, they said, were first reported on a call to the auditors’ hotline.
It’s probably just as well that the employee’s poker career is over. After winning a free tournament, he ran his bankroll up to more than $5,000, according to computer records. But, in a tale familiar to hubristic gamblers everywhere, he kept entering—and losing—tournaments until he’d gone bust. —Brock Read
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