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...Hosung Kwon, a senior at Yale University who was to throw a $40,000 gambling party for 1000 of his friends last Saturday, cancelled the event Friday evening...
...reason for the cancellation is uncertain, as Kwon is refusing to comment...
...Kwon has had 10,000 500-franc bills printed with the Yale Bulldog. Each player will be given 25,000 francs, and anyone who wins $500,000 will get a genuine $100 bill. Kwon has also had six blackjack tables shipped from New York for the event and plans to show horse-racing films...
...Kwon, a Korean who transferred from Columbia University two years ago, is now a senior majoring in economics. His family is in the steel business, and he himself runs an investment business in the United States...
...Kwon has spent two weeks planning the party, mailing 1000 invitations and spending nearly $40,000 on food, drinks, gambling tables, door prizes, the services of two orchestras, and five other entertainment acts...