John C. Turmel, B. Eng.,
8-37 Colborne St. E., 
Brantford ON N3T 2G3,
Tel/fax: 519-753-0645
Email: turmel@ncf.ca

Friday April 21 2006

Dalton McGuinty, Premier
Queen's Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1
Fax (416) 325-3745.
https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp

re: Reduced earnings of Brantford Charity Casino 


Dear Premier McGuinty: 

As an Ottawa resident, I hope you don't have to be convinced 
of my credentials in "Poker Systems" Engineering and "Poker 
Game" Engineering as Canada's most court-accredited expert 
witness in the Mathematics of Gambling. Given Ontario's 
original Charity Casino Poker Rules were based on my 
original Casino Turmel Poker Rules, I would have hoped for a 
better reaction to my 59 suggestions on how to better their 
poker service at http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/olgc.htm 

Inept management by the Ontario Lotteries and Gaming 
Commission at the Brantford Charity Casino is easily costing 
the province's charitable beneficiaries more than a quarter 
million dollars a year in rake-offs.

The City of Brantford also benefits from a share of these 
funds and since I moved to Brantford to avail myself of the 
province's casino services, I have a double incentive to see 
that the charities and my town get the maximum profit out of 
the games. And it just so happens that making more money for 
the casino also makes for a better game for me. 

Converting the biggest permanent 4-chip bet $20 game which 
offers 36 hands per hour into a bigger permanent 1-chip bet 
$25 game which offers 45 hands not only benefits the players 
with 25% more hands but profits the casino an extra $2 
hourly session fee per player, $20 per table. That's $500 a 
day, $15,000 a month, $175,000 a year that will be earned 
when the faster better-value $25 gets promoted. 

The last post on the olgc.htm page has my letter to casino 
manager Jay Lasychuk detailing how, despite continual 
deterrence by room management, I managed to start up the $8 
session fee $25 games 9 times in March. Then, one evening, 
eighteen $20 players were willing to move up to the more 
profitable game but the manager would not permit the game to 
be started. On April 8 2006, when another room manager 
refused to start up the more profitable game with a dozen 
players waiting, I said: What's your name so I can complain. 
Shift manager Michael Harrington banned me for 30 days for 
causing complaints from the other players which he deemed 
"disruptive." 

Banned from a government operation for complaining and 
organizing protest? I asked Mr. Lasychuk to rescind the ban 
but his failure to respond may force me to ask a judge if 
causing protest over being denied an advertised provincial 
government service is cause for ejection and trespassing. 

Over the 10 days since I was banned, the Brantford Charity 
Casino failed to earn $5,000 for the Province of Ontario and 
the City of Brantford. Any private casino would have made 
the maximum dollars out of the games because the owner could 
fire an inept management that refused to maximize profit. A 
government-run game should not excuse incompetence that 
would not be excused in private industry. 

The Province and the City both desperately need all the 
funds they can earn. Deterring the most profitable game for 
the house is the very height of managerial incompetence. You 
can bet I'll be trying to get Mayor Mike Hancock interested 
in maximizing funding out of the casino too. 

Please help inform the Brantford Charity casino management 
that Ontario residents can't be banned for wanting to 
complain about their refusal of service and help get the 
trespass ban rescinded before this ends up being determined 
by a judge sometime soon. 

Hoping you can correct this before too much more earnings 
are lost or too many more court fees are cost, I am, 




Sincerely yours,







_________________________

John C. Turmel

Cc: Mayor Hancock mhancock@brantford.ca Fax: 519-751-7109
Jay Lasychuk jlasychuk@olgc.ca
Fran Jackson fjackson@olgc.ca 
Michael Harrington mharrington@olgc.ca