Editorial Team · Est. 1998

The editors behind StatesCasinos

Six editors. Six narrow beats. No bonus marketing, no offshore content, no listing fees — just US land-based casino reporting from people who cover one specific niche each, from cardrooms in California to tribal compacts in Oklahoma.

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Land-Based Casino Editors for the United States

The editors and analysts auditing land-based casinos in the United States. Each maintains an independent research cadence across state gaming-commission filings, on-property visits, and verified operator policy disclosures.

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  • Rachel Mendoza

    Editor, California Cardrooms11 yrsLos Angeles, CA

    Rachel covers California's licensed card rooms for StatesCasinos. Her research draws on California Bureau of Gambling Control filings, county-level Gambling Establishment registrations, and direct verification with venue managers. She focuses on cash-game spreads, tournament schedules, and California-rules table mechanics across the state's roughly 80 licensed cardrooms.

  • Kenji Tanaka

    Poker Room Editor9 yrsLas Vegas, NV

    Kenji writes about poker-room operations across US card rooms and casinos for StatesCasinos. His work covers cash-game stakes, tournament structures, California-rules variants, and the operational differences between cardroom poker and casino-floor poker. He verifies poker-room facts directly with operators wherever public information is incomplete.

  • Samuel Okonkwo

    Senior Editor, Land-Based Gaming Law14 yrsWashington, DC

    Samuel covers US state-level gambling regulation and licensing for StatesCasinos. His writing focuses on the legal frameworks that distinguish cardrooms from commercial casinos, tribal compacts, and state-by-state age and conduct rules. He works from primary sources: state statutes, gaming-commission rule books, and published agency guidance.

  • Priya Sharma

    Responsible Gaming Editor8 yrsBoston, MA

    Priya covers responsible-gaming programs and player protections across US land-based casinos and card rooms for StatesCasinos. Her work draws on state self-exclusion program documentation, the National Council on Problem Gambling, and operator policy disclosures. She fact-checks every safety and self-exclusion answer against current state-level program information.

  • Marcus Holloway

    Editor, Tribal Gaming13 yrsTulsa, OK

    Marcus covers tribal gaming for StatesCasinos. His writing focuses on Class II and Class III property operations, tribal-state gaming compacts, and the regulatory framework set by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA, 1988) and the National Indian Gaming Commission. He works from primary sources — compact PDFs, NIGC published guidance, and operator disclosures — and contacts tribal gaming offices directly when public records are incomplete.

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