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I aim to investigate the relationship between status and risk-taking. To do this, I construct a novel experiment where participants play risky games to increase the payments they might take home. I introduce three areas of variation. First, I vary the observability of their returns, and their rank compared to others in the experiment will act as variation in the status returns of risk-taking behavior. The aim is to determine whether any observed increase in risk appetite is observed when status is available to participants. Second, I vary whether I broadcast outcomes which result in status gain or loss. This is intended to help determine whether individuals simply increase their risk-appetite when they are observed, or if they chase status as hypothesized and would be more risk-averse when they stand only to lose status from their actions. Finally, I allow the participants to set their own endpoints in the risky game, this is intended to study how status influences their selection into risky situations.