Winner
Today was the company's "Casino Luncheon" at the Pasadena Hilton. Everyone who attended got 1000 fake dollars in chips with which to play craps, roulette, and blackjack. At the end of the event we could convert every 100 fake dollars into a raffle ticket which could be allocated towards one of several prizes, which were all gift cards for various places. However, if you won a prize, all of your other tickets became void.

I hit the blackjack tables and managed to win another 1300 fake bucks - 700 of which came from my lest bet where I doubled down a bet of 350 and won. Another player who had won a bunch gave me 100 for no reason at one point, and another co-worker who didn't play gave me 500 of his 1000 fakebux. So, I ended up with 2900 fake dollars, or 29 raffle tickets.

I was considering putting them all into the bowl representing $50 iTunes cards, but I saw it had a lot more tickets in it than the one for $50 Barnes and Noble cards. I figured "well, I can get music from B&N too, if I want", so they all went into that bowl. And I won one! Good thing for me B&N gift cards were less desirable than those for Best Buy or Nordstrom's.

(Just to give a sense of perspective, the big winner of the day had something like 150 tickets, and another co-worker got 96 off a single bet on 12 at the craps table - all of which he put into the "$100 JetBlue gift card" bowl and wound up not winning.)