Brantford casino bans petition for sound-proof doors 

JCT: It's been almost a month since my last letter to Duncan 
Brown Duncan Brown, Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario. 
Lotteries & Gaming Corporation asking for an explanation why 
they didn't want to adopt my time-saving suggestions. 

So last Friday, I prepared:

PETITION FOR SOUND-PROOF DOORS

We, the undersigned, petition the Brantford Charity Casino 
and Ontario Lotteries and Gaming Commission:

Whereas the Brantford Charity Casino has so many slot 
machine winners that the din of the bells constantly
clanging from the hallways that lead to the poker room serve 
to make it one of the most needlessly noisy 
playing environments possible and;

Whereas the patrons of the Poker Room happily proffer the 
over $1,000 per hour that 9 tables may gross; 

Be it resolved that sound-proof doors be installed at the 
poker room entrances to cut out slots of noise.

Print: Last name, First name, Tel number or email. Sign.

JCT: When I got to the table, I started asking those people 
who agreed cutting out the slots of noise was a good idea to 
sign. 

Within a few minutes, I get called over by Michael 
Harrington to be told that I could not solicit in the 
casino. I pointed out it was a petition for a sound-proof 
door by people who are affected by the situation. Didn't  
matter. He told me there was no chance of a door while they 
haven't officially yet decided if they're going to keep the 
poker room instead of something else. 

It was so stupid a reply that I didn't even mention how the 
doors could be removed as easily as they could be installed. 
What would a low-tech bureaucrat know about the ease of 
installing doors. 

Besides, I'm going to be mentioning how players aren't even 
allowed to get organized in our demands which is the main 
reason I'll be having to resort to a judicial review of 
their stupidities. 

Sure, one expects bureaucrats to be class-insensitive and I 
can attest that Duncan Brown is running the most no-class 
game imaginable. No class allowed. Noise, bedlam and no 
complaining, that's the game run by Duncan Brown. Sad that 
government run casinos aim at no class. 

The only good thing about it is that a private casino can be 
as bad as they want and your only recourse is to go 
somewhere else. But a government operation is subject to 
judicial review. I don't have to stand for incompetence in 
the operation. All I have to do prove my government is doing 
it stupidly to a judge who can order the government 
operation to do it smart. 

So, it's true that while private casinos try to show a 
little class and there's nothing we can do if they fail, 
when a government operation tries to show no class and 
succeeds, there is something we can do about it. 

Besides, many of my suggestions are already the industry 
standard so their holding to doing it wrong is even more 
objectionable.

Anyway, one last letter to the minister asking him to refer 
my suggestions to someone who shows more competent or more 
class than Duncan Brown did. Then, I can drag the Minister 
into the judicial review with everyone below him. I'm not 
going to sue the guys at the casino below Brown. I'm going 
to sue the guy above Brown and Brown with the guys below. 

And it just so happens that I have more than the usual 
amount of time to do the legal work behind it. And each time 
one or two slot machines start loudly jangling 20 feet from 
my head, it just steels my resolve to see this through all 
the more. This is the only poker casino where I've ever had 
to use ear-plugs to play. 

I authored a petition at the Taj Mahal that cost them 
millions of dollars in the past 5 years but I got no 
objection from them to my free speech. My petition was to 
change their new policy of raking the games up to $5 per pot 
(36-40 hands/hour) instead of the $10/hour time charge they 
used to have. They'd changed to a no-smoking policy and 
going to a rake let smokers leave the table without it 
costing them. By costing everyone else more. Instead of 10 
players paying $100 per hour for the time at the table, we 
were now to be paying almost $200 per hour by rake. So, my 
petition cost them almost $100 an hour for all those games 
over all those years. That's the main reason no one will 
ever forget the TajProfessor who forced them to go back to 
the session fee. 

Of course, they're privately-run and could have been tougher 
than a government operation crunching on the users. That's 
what makes the Brantford management's pushy policy all the 
more improper. 

Anyway, court's just one last "do-nothing" by the Minister 
away.