Playground Poker Club ban record, wearable.
One garment, carrying the same dated facts documented on the rest of this site.
Why this page exists
I have been a patron of Playground Poker Club in Kahnawà:ke, Québec since shortly after the venue opened in 2010. In October 2024, after approximately fourteen years of patronage, I was banned. The ban was communicated verbally. No written notice was issued. No written cause was stated. No appeal mechanism was offered. The only attribution of cause I ever received came verbally, from a duty manager on a later drive-in visit: "an incident with a poker manager where you were rude." That sentence is the entire stated basis of my exclusion, and it has never been reduced to writing.
Between March and October 2024 I sent eleven dated written requests to executives of the licensee, including the chief executive officer and nine other named executives. None of those eleven received a written response on the merits. In October 2024 I escalated to executives of the World Poker Tour. Those executives did not respond either. On April 14, 2026 I filed a formal complaint with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission; the Commission acknowledged the filing the same day and, as of the date of this page, is proceeding. The licensee and the World Poker Tour remain silent.
In my view, the absence of a written rule is the fact that matters more than the content of any particular complaint. No written policy defined the conduct the ban responds to. No written notice records the ban itself. No appeal mechanism exists to contest it. Any patron banned tomorrow would have the same recourse I had, which is none. If you have ever sat down at a table in a licensed venue, that sentence is about you as much as it is about me.
In my view, what this garment is depends on who you are when you read about it. If you are the reader who recognizes procedural unfairness when you see it, the garment is the record in wearable form, and that is enough reason. If you are the reader who is not personally affected but does not accept this as a normal way to run a licensed room, the garment is a dated, quiet object that says so without requiring you to say anything. And if you are the reader who feels personally affronted by unwritten authority in a regulated space, the garment is a dated fact, and you already know what a dated fact does when it enters a room where no written rule applies. This page will not tell you what to do with it. The record will not tell you either. The record only shows what the licensee did, and did not do, in writing.
Rudeban Tee — Black
Black t-shirt with front and back print. The front reads "Silence is polite, speech is rude." The back carries the roundel, the wordmark, and the site URL rudeban.com, so the garment points back at the record it extends. It is deliberately plain. The garment is not a statement added to the record; it is the record, in a form a person can wear.
- Color
- Black
- Front
- Silence is polite, speech is rude
- Back
- Rude BanDare to speakrudeban.com
- Status
- Coming soonPhase 1
This record stands, regardless of outcome.
Whatever comes next — a response from the licensee, a finding from the regulator, a decade of further silence, or a quiet resolution — the record will remain. This site is not a pressure campaign with an end state. It is a permanent dated file. The garment, when it exists, joins a record that is not going anywhere.
Reserve a place.
Production is being sourced locally in Ontario, Canada. The garment is not for sale yet. A notify address is open at the email below. Writing to that address reserves a place in the first production run and nothing more — no payment is taken at Phase 1, and no obligation attaches on either side until Phase 2 publishes price, blank, and checkout in full. I will not name a shipping date I cannot keep. The notify list will be informed before this page changes.
About this page.
When will this be available?
When production is finalized. I will not commit to a shipping date I cannot keep. The notify list at [email protected] will be informed before this page changes.
Where is it produced?
Locally, in Ontario, Canada. A local screen printer, small batches.
How do I pay?
Payment is not live at Phase 1. Price will be stated in full when Phase 2 opens. Writing to [email protected] at Phase 1 reserves a place in the first production run and nothing more — no payment is taken and no obligation attaches on either side until Phase 2 publishes price, blank, and checkout in full.
Will you ship internationally?
That is the intent, and it will be confirmed at Phase 2 once fulfillment and postage are priced.
Is this a donation?
No. It is a pre-order interest list for a physical garment that will be sold at a stated price. It is not a solicitation of funds, and no money moves at Phase 1. I am not a registered charity and no portion of any future sale is tax-deductible.
Why a t-shirt?
Because the file is already written, and a garment carries a dated fact into rooms a web page does not enter.
What is the connection between this garment and the rest of the site?
The rest of the site is the file. The garment is the file in a form a person can wear.
What happens to this page if the matter is resolved?
The page, and the record it extends, remain live. A dated record does not stop being dated when someone finally answers. This site is not a pressure campaign with an end state; it is a permanent dated file, and it will remain so regardless of outcome.
The procedural vacuum
No written rule. No written notice. No appeal. No written response to eleven dated requests.
The garment, when it exists, will enter that vacuum dated like everything else in the file. The record remains.
Read the record itself.
The garment above is an extension of the file. The file itself — the dated chronology, the preserved correspondence, and the filings to the regulator — is available in full.