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Every room in a region, in every state.
Today DirtyStack shows 5 regions, all in Florida. This plan takes regions to all 50 states and DC, puts every US poker room in a region without anyone picking it, and changes the four places that use regions.
The short version. 71 regions, each inside one state. Florida keeps its 5. Each US room is placed in the nearest region of its own state, automatically, and stays there. Up to 456 more rooms that PokerAtlas confirms go live one state at a time, Nevada first, each one checked first. Each state's tournaments go live with its rooms.
Where it stands on 21 October. The database change (TM-813) went live on 21 October. Players see no change: the 66 new regions are hidden. Next come the admin app and the website, then Nevada.
Where this stands
Measured on 21 October 2026.
| Step | Issue | State |
|---|---|---|
| Plan, screens and tracked issues | TM-812 | Done 16 September |
| Rooms first, tournaments later (D-1) | TM-812 | Replaced 21 October: tournaments come with each state |
| One state at a time, Nevada first | TM-812 | Decided 21 October |
| The region list | TM-813 | Approved 17 September: 71 regions |
| The database change | TM-813 | Done 21 October. The 66 new regions are hidden. |
| Admin app | TM-814 | Waiting After the database change |
| Website | TM-815 | Waiting After the database change. The "Florida-only" line was replaced on 1 October. |
| App | TM-816 | Waiting In the next app release, 1.30.0. Nevada does not wait for it. |
| New rooms | TM-817 | Waiting One state at a time, Nevada first |
| Tournaments | TM-818 | Waiting With each state, Nevada first |
What changed since 2 October
- One state at a time. The database, admin and website changes cover every state, with each new region hidden. The states are then turned on one at a time: Nevada first, then California, then Texas, then the rest in groups.
- Tournaments come with each state. This replaces D-1. When a state turns on, its rooms join the list the nightly job copies, so their PokerAtlas tournaments go live too. Results stay Florida-only, Bravo is not expanded, and Florida's extra accuracy checks do not extend to the new states.
- The data is already there. The national job reads PokerAtlas every night. On 21 October it held 1,879 upcoming tournaments in 21 Nevada rooms, 1,303 in 39 California rooms and 678 in 57 Texas rooms. Florida has 844.
- The database change is live. All 5,837 database tests passed on a fresh copy, and 30 of them are new. A trial on the live database came first, and the change went live on 21 October. Florida's 5 regions and the region of every live room stayed exactly as they were. Route 66 Poker and DirtyStack Poker, both hidden, got Tampa Bay & Gulf Coast.
- The App Store has version 1.29.0, released on 20 October. It reads regions the same way, so hidden regions stay hidden.
- Florida's room locations were corrected on 3 October. All 31 rooms with a map location still land in the region they have.
Earlier: 16 September to 2 October
- The app is live on both stores. The App Store had version 1.26.0, released on 30 September. Google Play had version 1.27.0. The store review that held the database work is over.
- Rooms can now be outside the US. Since 23 September every room has a country. Sosua Poker, in the Dominican Republic, is the first room outside the US. Regions cover the 50 states and DC, so the region rules apply to US rooms only.
- Three more rooms. 37 rooms, up from 34: Casa Lyman, Sosua Poker and DirtyStack Poker were added. Three rooms have no region: Route 66 Poker, DirtyStack Poker and Sosua Poker. All three are hidden from the website and the app.
- The admin app has a full room page. Since 25 September the region field sits in that page's Address section. A room made there starts with no region.
- The website no longer says it is for Florida only. The home page line for visitors outside every region was replaced on 1 October.
- The national room list did not change. It holds the same 1,273 rows, 484 of them confirmed. Both checks on the region list pass again.
Next steps
| ID | Step | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| N1 | Apply the database change (TM-813) | Done on 21 October. The states, the rules and the 71 regions are in. The 66 new regions are hidden. |
| N2 | Clean the national list (first step of TM-817) | Merge the split venues and mark the rows that are not rooms. The list is separate from the live rooms, so this can run beside N1. |
| N3 | Admin app (TM-814) and website (TM-815) | Side by side, after N1. |
| N4 | App (TM-816) | In the next app release, 1.30.0. Nevada does not wait for it. |
| N5 | Add the rooms (TM-817) | One state at a time: hidden first, checked, then shown. |
| N6 | Tournaments (TM-818) | With each state, as its rooms are shown. |
| N7 | Nevada | Add its 33 rooms hidden and check them. Put them on the nightly job's list, check that the app and website stay fast and that "today" is right for Las Vegas, which is 3 hours behind Eastern. Then show the rooms and their tournaments. |
| N8 | California, then Texas, then the rest | The same steps, one state or one group at a time. |
Open decisions
| ID | Decision | Needed before |
|---|---|---|
| D-2 | How often rooms that are still hidden refresh their Google details. | Nevada's rooms are added (N7) |
| D-3 | Whether to wait for players to update the app before the new regions are shown. Nevada adds 2 regions to the 5, and the released app's single list reads fine with 7. | A large group of states (N8) |
| D-4 | Whether the two Monterey-area rooms stay in Bay Area, Bay Area gets a new name, or Monterey gets its own region. | California is shown (N8) |
1. The work, and the open questions
- Define regions for all 50 states and DC. Florida keeps its 5 regions.
- Put every live US room in a region, now and for every room added later, and keep it there unless someone moves it on purpose.
- Decide which of the 1,273 rooms on the national list become live rooms.
- Make everything that uses regions work with 71 regions: the database, the DirtyStack website (regions grouped under states), the DirtyStack app and the admin app.
| ID | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| U-1 | Do the new rooms' tournaments go live too? | Yes, with each state. Changed on 21 October (D-1 below). |
| U-2 | Do all 1,273 rows on the national list become rooms? | No. Only the rooms PokerAtlas confirms, after each one is checked. The other 788 are search results nobody has confirmed. |
| U-3 | Can a region cross a state line, like Kansas City? | No. A region sits inside one state, so the website can group regions under states. "Near me" still finds rooms across a border. |
| U-4 | Do hidden rooms need a region? | Yes. Every room in the US gets one. Route 66 Poker, a traveling operator whose listed base is Sarasota, gets Tampa Bay & Gulf Coast. It is hidden from the website and the app, so players do not see its region. |
| U-5 | When can it ship? | The database change went live on 21 October. The states go live one at a time, Nevada first. |
| U-6 | Do rooms outside the US get a region? | No. Regions cover the 50 states and DC. Sosua Poker has none, and the region rules apply to US rooms only. |
D-1 · Rooms first, tournaments later (decided 16 September, replaced 21 October)
Replaced on 21 October. Tournaments now go live with each state, one state at a time, so no state's events arrive all at once. The national job reads each state every night, and Nevada's data was read on 21 October.
Rooms nationwide now. Tournaments stay Florida-only. Each state's tournaments open later, once that state's data is collected daily and checked the way Florida's is.
Rooms and tournaments together. On 16 September that would have published 10,237 more upcoming events from 288 rooms in 36 states at once.
Why A: the data checks cover only what is published, which is Florida. On 16 September some states had last been collected on 1 September, so their schedules could be two weeks old.
2. What we found
The database and the national room list were measured again on 2 October 2026. The code survey is from 16 September; the admin app and the DirtyStack app were read again on 2 October.
The database today
| Item | Fact |
|---|---|
| Regions | 5, all in Florida. Each is a center point and a radius. |
| Rooms | 37: 36 in Florida and 1 in the Dominican Republic. Three have no region: Route 66 Poker, DirtyStack Poker and Sosua Poker. Four have no map location. |
| Accounts with a home region | 19 of 139. |
| Rules on rooms | Room names must be unique across the whole country. A US room's state must have 2 letters, and nothing checks that it is a real state. Deleting a region leaves its rooms without one. |
| New rooms | The admin app creates a room with no region. Until someone picks one, the room is in no region's list. |
| Test databases | The 5 Florida regions exist only as data, not in the database setup scripts, so a fresh test database has no regions. |
The national room list
| Status | Rows | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed | 484 | PokerAtlas lists the room. 28 are in Florida, where the rooms are already live. 456 are in 40 other states. 210 have no map location yet, and none has a city filled in. |
| Unverified | 788 | A Google search result only. Google does not call 229 of them a casino, and a sample of 25 held an arcade, party planners, a sportsbook, a keno parlor and an office. |
| Delisted | 1 | Gone from PokerAtlas. |
Confirmed rooms by state: Texas 86, California 61, Washington 38, Nevada 33, Florida 28, Montana 26, Michigan 25, Oregon 21, and 33 more states with 1 to 11 each.
"Confirmed" does not always mean "a room to list". In Illinois, only 6 of the 11 confirmed rows are a casino whose address matches its PokerAtlas page. The other 5 are charity game operators, a poker series, or rows where the Google address and the PokerAtlas page point to different places. So 456 is the most rooms that can go live, and every row gets checked first.
The placement rule, tested
The rule: a room goes in the nearest region of its own state, measured to the region's center. On the 31 Florida rooms that have a map location and a region, the rule picks the region that was chosen by hand for all 31. On the national list, all 274 confirmed rooms that have a map location land in exactly one of the 71 regions. Both checks were run again on 2 October.
Where regions are used
| App | What uses regions today | Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Database | The regions table, each room's region, each player's home region, the public tournament list. | TM-813 |
| Admin app | The region field in the room page's Address section: a flat list of the 5 regions, plus "No region assigned". | TM-814 |
| DirtyStack website | The header region switcher, the regions page, the region pages, the home page when no region is known, and a fixed list of the 5 Florida region centers. It also falls back to South Florida, opens the map on Tampa, and uses Eastern time. | TM-815 |
| DirtyStack app | The region picker on Rooms and Events (one flat list, a limit of 6 picks), the home region and home room pickers, and a fallback to the first region in order, Tampa Bay & Gulf Coast, for a new player with no location. The map opens on Tampa. | TM-816 |
| Tournament data | The national room list and the nightly job that publishes tournaments. | TM-817, TM-818 |
| No region use | RoomDirector, the dealer tablets, the tournament display, the kiosk, Live Cards, sign-in, dsptour.com and mangrovepoker.com. | None |
3. The plan
3.1 How regions are drawn
- A region is an area inside one state, with a name, a center point and a radius.
- Florida's 5 regions do not change. Their links, players' saved picks and home regions keep working.
- A city area with enough rooms gets its own region. Every other state gets one region named after the state.
- Every state and DC gets at least one region, so a room added anywhere in the US always has a home.
- Players only see regions that have rooms shown to them.
- 71 regions in total: Florida's 5, 23 city-area regions in 7 more states, and one region for each of the other 42 states and DC.
- The list was approved on 17 September, with one rename: Willamette Valley & Coast.
City-area regions outside Florida
| State | Rooms | Regions |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 86 | Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio |
| California | 61 | Bay Area, Central Coast, Los Angeles, Palm Springs & Inland Empire, Sacramento & Central Valley, San Diego |
| Washington | 38 | Seattle & Puget Sound, Spokane, Tri-Cities & Yakima |
| Nevada | 33 | Las Vegas, Reno & Lake Tahoe |
| Michigan | 25 | Detroit, Grand Rapids & West Michigan, Northern Michigan |
| Oregon | 21 | Portland, Willamette Valley & Coast, Southern Oregon |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | Philadelphia & Eastern Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh & Western Pennsylvania |
Room counts are confirmed rooms on the national list. Montana stays one region because its rooms are spread over small cities. Illinois stays one region because a Quad Cities region would hold one casino.
3.2 Which rooms go live
- Up to 456 confirmed rooms that are not live yet, each checked first.
- The 788 unverified rows stay out. Nobody has confirmed they run poker, and 21 of them are online casinos.
- Clean the list first. 38 venues are split across two rows; merge them. Mark charity operators, non-rooms and wrong address matches. Nothing is deleted.
- Check every row, state by state: a fixed venue whose address matches its PokerAtlas page.
- Find the missing map locations. 210 confirmed rows have none. Merging the split venues fills some of them. The rest need a one-time Google Places lookup, which also fills in each room's city.
- Add them hidden. Both player switches off, region set automatically. The Google refresh fills in time zone, hours, phone and photo.
- Check again: no room without a region, a map location or a time zone.
- Then show them, once the website and app changes are live.
3.3 How a room gets its region, and keeps it
From the admin app, which uses Google Places, or from the import.
With no map location, the state's default region. Marked "automatic".
A new region somewhere else moves nobody.
A new address re-places an automatic room. A hand pick is marked "manual" and the database never changes it.
- The database enforces it: every US room has a region, the region is in the room's own state, and a region that holds rooms cannot be deleted.
- Rooms outside the US have no region, and the rules leave them alone.
- When a state's regions change, the admin app re-places that state's automatic rooms and shows what will move before saving.
- Players: the home region works as it does today. A visitor with no saved region gets the same rule: their state first, then the nearest center.
- Today's rooms: the 31 rooms with a map location and a region keep it. Testing, Suncoast Poker and Casa Lyman have no map location and stay in Tampa Bay & Gulf Coast, Florida's default region. Route 66 Poker and DirtyStack Poker, which have no region today, join it. Sosua Poker stays without one.
3.4 What changes in each app
Database (TM-813)
- A list of the 50 states and DC. US regions and US rooms must use a real state.
- Automatic placement, the manual flag and the rules above, for US rooms.
- A region list with room counts for the website and the app.
- Room names unique per city and state, not across the country.
- All regions written into the database setup, so test databases have them. New regions start hidden.
Admin app (TM-814)
- Region field, in the room page's Address section: "Automatic" plus the regions in the room's state.
- The region on each room row, and a region filter.
- A new Regions page: grouped by state, with counts, add and edit.
Website (TM-815)
- Header switcher with search and the 3 nearest regions.
- The regions page grouped by state, with jump letters and search.
- Each region page names its state and links to it.
- The home page with no region: a grouped search. Its "Florida-only" line was replaced on 1 October.
- State-first placement for visitors, maps that open on the region, and each room's own time zone.
DirtyStack app (TM-816), next release
- Region picker: search, "Near you", and states that open to show their regions.
- Home region and home room pickers grouped, with search.
- Region tags show the state. No more Tampa Bay default. The map opens on your regions.
3.5 Order
The region list was approved on 17 September.
Live on 21 October. The new regions are hidden.
Both read the new region list.
Rooms added hidden and checked, then shown with their tournaments.
Built together with other app work, in 1.30.0.
One state or one group at a time.
Cleaning the national list, the first step of TM-817, changes no live data and can start beside step 1. Nevada does not wait for the app release: the released app lists the shown regions in one list, and 7 regions read fine there.
A change that the app can read is checked first against the versions on players' phones. Version 1.29.0 has been on the App Store since 20 October.
4. Screens, today next to proposed
"Today" panels are screenshots taken on 16 September: the website from dirtystackpoker.com and the app running that day's code in the iPhone simulator. The admin panels are drawn from its code. Two things have changed since. The "Florida-only" line in W4 was replaced on 1 October. The admin room form in D1 became a full room page on 25 September, and the region field now sits in its Address section.
W1 · Website, header region switcher
A flat list of every region becomes a search box, "Use current location" and the 3 nearest regions. Everything else is one click away.
W2 · Website, the regions page
The visitor's state comes first, with live counts. All states follow, A to Z, with their regions. Search and jump letters keep a long list usable.
W3 · Website, a region page
The small heading shows the full state name and links to it. "Try another region" shows only regions in the same state.
W4 · Website, home page when no region is known
The dropdown becomes a search grouped by state. The line "Outside Florida? We're Florida-only for now." was replaced on 1 October.
A1 · App, region picker on Rooms and Events
Search, then the player's picks, then the nearest regions, then states that open to show their regions. The limit stays at 6 regions.
A2 · App, home region picker
Nearest regions first, then sections by state. Typing a state name finds its regions.
A3 · App, home room picker
Rooms in the player's regions come first. Search covers every room, so the app no longer loads the whole country at once.
A4 · App, Rooms tab
With regions in two states, each room's tag shows the state. A new player with no region sees "Choose a region" instead of Tampa Bay.
D1 · Admin app, room form
"No region assigned" goes away. "Automatic" is the default, and only the room's own state is listed.
D2 · Admin app, rooms list
Each row shows its region, and a region filter sits next to the state filter.
D3 · Admin app, new Regions page
Regions grouped by state, with room counts for the website and the app. Florida's numbers are today's. New regions stay hidden until their rooms are shown.
5. Tracked work
Each step is a Linear issue under TM-812. States are as of 21 October 2026.
TM-813 · Database: states, automatic placement, 71 regions Done
- A list of the 50 states and DC. Every US region and every US room must use one.
- A US room's region must be in the room's own state. Rooms outside the US have no region.
- Automatic placement when a room is added and when its address changes, a manual flag, and one default region per state. Florida's default is Tampa Bay & Gulf Coast.
- Every US room must have a region. The database fills it in, so the admin app's room page keeps working as it is. A region that holds rooms cannot be deleted.
- The 66 new regions are written in as hidden, one by one. Florida's 5 are left untouched.
- Room names unique per city and state. All regions written into the database setup.
- The region list with room counts goes with the website (TM-815), and admin permission to add and edit regions goes with the Regions page (TM-814).
- Done when every US room has a region, a new room gets one without anyone choosing, and the 31 Florida rooms keep theirs.
TM-814 · Admin app: region field, rooms list, Regions page Waiting
- Region field, in the room page's Address section: "Automatic" plus the regions in the room's state. A hand pick makes the room manual.
- The region on each room row, and a region filter.
- A Regions page under Poker Rooms: grouped by state, with counts, center and radius, add and edit, and "re-place automatic rooms" with a preview. It also brings the permission to add and edit regions, and a way to change a state's default region.
TM-815 · Website: regions within states Waiting
- Header switcher, regions page, region pages and the no-region home page, as in W1 to W4.
- Visitors are placed by state first, then the nearest center, using each region's own radius.
- Maps open on the region, and times use each room's time zone.
- Only regions with rooms are built in advance and listed in the sitemap.
- A region list with the number of rooms shown on the website and in the app.
- Florida wording: the home page line was replaced on 1 October. The fixed list of the 5 Florida region centers and the fallback to South Florida remain.
TM-816 · DirtyStack app: region pickers by state Waiting
- Region picker, home region picker and home room picker, as in A1 to A3.
- Region tags show the state. "Choose a region" replaces the Tampa Bay default. The map opens on the picked regions.
- The Events tab uses the local date. Today it can open on tomorrow after 8 PM Eastern.
TM-817 · Add the confirmed rooms, then show them Waiting
- Clean the national list: merge split venues; mark charity operators, non-rooms and wrong matches.
- Check every row of the state being added.
- Look up the missing map locations and cities in Google Places.
- Add the rooms hidden, with automatic regions, and fill in their details.
- Check that no room lacks a region, a map location or a time zone.
- Finalize the state's regions, then show its rooms.
D-2. Decide how often rooms that are still hidden refresh their Google details, before Nevada's rooms are added. A daily job that refreshes every room's Google details is planned and not built, and its Google cost grows with the number of rooms.
TM-818 · Tournaments with each state Waiting
- A state's rooms join the list the nightly job copies, so their PokerAtlas tournaments go live with the rooms. Only PokerAtlas tournaments: results stay Florida-only and Bravo is not expanded.
- The tournament list and the nightly publishing job are tested with each state added. Nevada alone has 1,879 upcoming tournaments, more than Florida's 844.
- Notifications and "today" use each room's time zone. Today they use Eastern time.
6. Approvals
| Step | Who decides | Who does it |
|---|---|---|
| The region list | Matt | Approved on 17 September, with one rename: Willamette Valley & Coast. |
| The database change | Matt | Applied and checked by the agent after Matt's yes. |
| Cleaning the list and adding rooms | Matt, step by step | Each step is shown first, then run by the agent. |
| Google address lookups | Matt | Uses the Google key that is already set up. The cost shows in the Google Cloud console. |
| Showing a state | Matt | One state at a time: its regions, its rooms and its tournaments, after each is checked. |
| The app release | Matt | The next build and store submission. |
7. What the checks found
From reading the code of every app on 17 September, the admin app and the DirtyStack app again on 2 October at the versions released to the stores, and the DirtyStack app again on 21 October.
7.1 A hidden region stays hidden
- Players never get a hidden region. The app asks only for regions marked as shown, and the database refuses to hand a hidden region to a player. Versions 1.26.0 to 1.29.0 all work this way. The website and the admin app ask the same way.
- A new region is shown unless the change says otherwise. So the database change marks each of the 66 new regions as hidden.
- The app reads the region list again every 5 minutes. A region that is marked as shown reaches players' phones with no app update.
7.2 What the released app does with more regions
Versions 1.26.0 to 1.29.0 show every region that is marked as shown in one list and let a player pick up to 6. It places a new player in the nearest region within 150 miles, and otherwise in the first region in order.
- The new regions come after Florida's 5 in the order, so the first region stays Tampa Bay & Gulf Coast.
- D-3. Decide whether to wait for players to update the app before the new regions are shown. A player who has not updated sees every shown region in one list: 7 with Nevada, which reads fine, and up to 71 later.
- The database places every new room by itself. A room with a map location goes to the nearest region of its own state, a room without one goes to the state's default, and a region picked by hand stays put. The new tests check each of these. The trial on the live database gave the two rooms without a region one each and left every other room where it is.
7.3 Gaps on the national list
| Finding | What it means |
|---|---|
| No city on any confirmed row | A live room must have a city, so the Google lookup has to fill it in. Room names become unique per city and state only once the city is there. |
| Two rooms share one name in one state | "Seat Open" is two PokerAtlas rooms in Montana, one in Helena and one in Bozeman. Today's rule, one name in the whole country, would refuse the second. |
| Parx Casino is split across two rows | The PokerAtlas row has an address in Shippensburg. The Google row has the right one, in Bensalem. The merge keeps Bensalem. |
| A wrong business name | "San Antonio Casino & Poker Rentals, Parties and Planning" carries the PokerAtlas page of Alamo Card House 2. It is a real room that needs its name fixed. |
| 210 rows with no map location | They cannot be placed by distance, so they start in their state's default region and move when the lookup fills them in. In Texas that is 62 of 86 rooms. |
7.4 Placements worth a second look
Each room below went to the nearest region of its state. The question is whether the region's name still fits. They are marked on the map in 3.1.
| Room | Region | Miles from its center | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kickapoo Lucky Eagle | San Antonio | 108 | Eagle Pass, on the border. |
| Bend Poker Room | Willamette Valley & Coast | 92 | Bend is in Central Oregon, across the Cascades. |
| Clearwater Saloon & Casino | Tri-Cities & Yakima | 60 | Wenatchee, in north-central Washington. |
| Island Resort & Casino | Northern Michigan | 58 | The Upper Peninsula. |
| The Saginaw Poker Room | Grand Rapids & West Michigan | 42 | Saginaw is in neither. |
| Parx Casino | Philadelphia & Eastern Pennsylvania | 25 | Placed from the Shippensburg address. Bensalem is near Philadelphia. |
- D-4. Decide whether the two Monterey-area rooms, Bankers Casino in Salinas and The Marina Club Casino in Marina, stay in Bay Area, or Bay Area gets a new name, or Monterey gets its own region.
- Region names and centers are checked again once every room has a map location (TM-817, step 6).
Compiled on 21 October 2026 from the live TableMaster database, the national room list (market_intel.rooms), the Linear tracker, the code of every app, and the public App Store and Google Play listings. First published on 16 September 2026. Room counts on the national list are PokerAtlas-confirmed rows before cleanup.
Not covered here: tournament results outside Florida, region-based advertising, and state pages on the website.