Poker Room Editor
Kenji Tanaka
Live poker rooms — cash games, tournaments, dealer/floor operations
- Based in
- Las Vegas, NV
- Experience
- 9 years on beat
- Works for
- StatesCasinos.com
About Kenji T.
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.
Areas of expertise
- Poker Room
- Tournament Structures
- Cardroom Rules
- Rake Economics
Credentials & receipts
- 10,000+ hours logged at the felt across CA / NV / FL poker rooms
- Reviewed every WSOP-circuit stop schedule annually since 2019
- Former tournament director, mid-stakes WPT-affiliated series
- Maintains independent rake-economics spreadsheet for all 50 states' rooms
How Kenji T. works
All editorial content published under this byline is fact-checked against primary sources — state gaming-commission filings, NIGC notices, statute text, and direct operator confirmation — before publication. StatesCasinos does not accept payment for listing placement or coverage. Read our full editorial methodology or affiliate disclosure.